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    • Aug 9, 1962
    Charlie Rich records "Sittin' And Thinkin'" in Nashville
    Aug 9, 1962
    Brenda Lee records the pop ballad "All Alone Am I" at the Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville
    Aug 10, 1962
    Columbia releases Jimmy Dean's "Little Black Book"
    Aug 12, 1962
    Roni Stoneman, of The Stoneman Family, has her fourth child, Robert Cox
    Aug 15, 1962
    Claude King records "The Burning Of Atlanta" in an a.m. session at the Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville
    Aug 16, 1962
    Claude King records the hit version of "I've Got The World By The Tail" in an overnight session at the Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville
    Aug 16, 1962
    Jim Reeves leaves Nashville for the first-ever country tour of South Africa, with Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer and comedian Dick O'Shaunessy
    Aug 18, 1962
    Billboard reports former Johnny Horton guitarist Tommy Tomlinson has had one of his legs amputated 21 months after he was injured in the car crash that took Horton's life
    Aug 18, 1962
    Fiddler Jimmy Mattingly is born in Leitchfield, Kentucky. A longtime member of Garth Brooks' band, Stillwater, he backs Dolly Parton and Dierks Bentley on albums and becomes a founding member of the bluegrass band The Grascals
    Aug 18, 1962
    Ringo Starr makes his debut as the drummer for The Beatles at Hulme Hall in Birkenhead, England. Starr is destined to receive a country Grammy nomination for a session with Buck Owens
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