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    • Aug 22, 1960
    Cowboy Copas starts a 12-week run in the #1 position on the Billboard country singles chart with "Alabam"
    Aug 22, 1960
    Columbia releases Johnny Horton's "North To Alaska"
    Aug 22, 1960
    Floyd Collin Wraye is born in DeQueen, Arkansas. Under the stage name Collin Raye, he uses a powerhouse voice to make commercially successful social statements through such hits as "Little Rock," "In This Life" and "I Think About You"
    Aug 23, 1960
    Jimmy C. Newman records "Wanting You With Me Tonight"
    Aug 23, 1960
    Oscar Hammerstein II, who co-wrote the music for "Oklahoma!" and "The Sound Of Music," dies of cancer at home in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. In the 1950s, Slim Whitman had country hits with two of his songs: "Indian Love Call" and "Rose-Marie"
    Aug 27, 1960
    "The Louisiana Hayride" ends a 12-year run on on KWKH in Shreveport, broadcast from the Municipal Auditorium. The "Hayride" had provided competition for the Grand Ole Opry, and groomed such stars as Elvis Presley, Jim Reeves and Hank Williams
    Aug 28, 1960
    The western "For The Love Of Mike" premieres in Bismarck, North Dakota. Starring Richard Basehart, it also features Rex Allen in a secondary role
    Aug 28, 1960
    Roy Acuff makes his Las Vegas debut, appearing at the Showboat
    Aug 31, 1960
    Brenda Lee records the traditional-pop classic "I'm In The Mood For Love." The performance is used 47 years later in a Victoria's Secret commercial
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