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    • Aug 9, 1964
    Peter, Paul & Mary perform in New York at the funeral for Andrew Goodman, one of three civil rights workers brutally murdered the previous month in Mississippi. Peter Yarrow will earn a country hit as the writer of "Torn Between Two Lovers"
    Aug 10, 1964
    Mick Jagger is found guilty of speeding and driving without insurance in Liverpool, England. In 1969, he co-writes "Honky Tonk Women," ranked among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number"
    Aug 10, 1964
    Columbia releases the album "Another Side Of Bob Dylan." Johnny Cash remakes one of the album's songs, "It Ain't Me, Babe," later in the month, the first instance of a Dylan song becoming a country hit
    Aug 11, 1964
    The Music City News, established by Faron Young, celebrates its first anniversary with a pair of figure eight races at the Nashville Speedway. The winning drivers: Willie Nelson and Roy Drusky
    Aug 12, 1964
    Bob Luman marries Barbara Tisman in Yuma, Colorado
    Aug 14, 1964
    Roy Rogers has a nine-hour surgery to repair vertebrae in his back damaged by years of riding his horse, Trigger
    Aug 14, 1964
    Singer/songwriter Johnny Burnette drowns in a boating accident on California's Clear Lake. With his Rock 'N' Roll Trio in the mid-1950s, he helped define rockabilly. The Trio's "The Train Kept A-Rollin'" will be named one of the 500 greatest country singles in history in the 2003 Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Aug 17, 1964
    Maria McKee is born in Los Angeles. She becomes the lead vocalist for Lone Justice, whose 1985 recording of "Ways To Be Wicked" is deemed one of country's greatest singles in a 2003 Country Music Foundation book, "Heartaches By The Number"
    Aug 17, 1964
    Marty Robbins records "One Of These Days"
    Aug 17, 1964
    Debbie Lee Rogers, the adopted Korean daughter of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, dies in a Sunday School bus accident in San Clemente, California
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