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    • Aug 15, 1966
    Capitol releases Buck Owens' "Open Up Your Heart"
    Aug 16, 1966
    Brenda Lee sings "I'm Sorry" on Dick Clark's daytime ABC series
    Aug 16, 1966
    Colgems releases The Monkees' pop hit "Last Train To Clarksville." In 2003, the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number" lists it among country's 500 greatest singles of all-time
    Aug 19, 1966
    Lee Ann Womack is born in Jacksonville, Texas. A superb traditionally minded vocalist, she reaches her commercial peak with the 2000 release "I Hope You Dance," named Song and Single of the Year by the Country Music Association
    Aug 20, 1966
    Buck Owens rises to #1 on the Billboard country albums chart with a gospel project, "Dust On Mother's Bible"
    Aug 20, 1966
    Jerry and Carolyn Abbott have a son, Darrell "Dimebag" Abbott, in Ennis, Texas. The son goes on to form heavy metal band Pantera with brother Vinnie Paul Abbott. Dad co-writes the Buck Owens & Emmylou Harris hit "Play Together Again Again"
    Aug 21, 1966
    Jerry Lee Lewis signs on to take the role of Iago in a London production of "Catch My Soul," an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Othello"
    Aug 22, 1966
    "Islands In The Stream" co-writer Barry Gibb marries his first wife, Maureen Bates
    Aug 22, 1966
    Johnny Cash fails to appear at the courthouse during the first day of divorce proceedings in Ventura, California
    Aug 22, 1966
    Pop vocalist Yvonne King divorces her second husband, Delmore Courtney. The split comes 20 years after The King Sisters recorded their only country hit, the appropriately titled "Divorce Me C.O.D."
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