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    • Aug 1, 1958
    KSIR signs on the air in Wichita, Kansas, becoming the city's first country station. The ownership group includes Webb Pierce
    Aug 1, 1958
    Johnny Cash signs with Columbia Records, where he remains for more than 25 years
    Aug 2, 1958
    Future country producer Jimmy Bowen guests on ABC's "The Dick Clark Show." The episode also features Buddy Knox and Les Paul & Mary Ford
    Aug 2, 1958
    Pre-dating his country hit "Old Rivers" by four years, Walter Brennan occupies the cover of TV Guide
    Aug 3, 1958
    Cindy Nixon is born in Nashville. She becomes a member of The Girls Next Door, a female quartet that reaches the Top 10 in 1986 with "Slow Boat To China," released on Mary Tyler Moore's MTM label
    Aug 5, 1958
    Songwriter Tim Nichols is born in Portsmouth, Virginia. Among his credits: Keith Whitley's "I'm Over You," Chris Young's "The Man I Want To Be," Dustin Lynch's "Cowboys And Angels" and Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying"
    Aug 5, 1958
    The Louvin Brothers record the original version of "If I Could Only Win Your Love" in Nashville. The song goes on to become a hit for Emmylou Harris
    Aug 8, 1958
    The Louvin Brothers begin three days of sessions for the gospel album "Satan Is Real." Cut the first day is "The Angels Rejoiced Last Night," destined to be remade by Dolly Parton & Sonya Isaacs for a 2003 tribute album "Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs Of The Louvin Brothers"
    Aug 8, 1958
    Bing Crosby, who earned a country hit in 1944 with "Pistol Packin' Mama," has a son, Harry Crosby, in Hollywood. It's his first child with second wife Kathy Crosby
    Aug 8, 1958
    Elvis Presley, living in Killeen, Texas, while with the Army, puts his ill mother on a train for Memphis. She enters the hospital the next day
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