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  • Aug 22, 1966
    Decca releases Warner Mack's "It Takes A Lot Of Money"
    Aug 24, 1966
    The movie "Girl From Tobacco Row" appears in theaters. The cast includes Tex Ritter, Johnny Russell, Martha Carson and Ralph Emery, playing a hired killer
    Aug 25, 1966
    Connie Smith records "The Hurtin's All Over" in a late-night Nashville session at RCA Studio B. She also takes the first of three attempts at "I'll Come Runnin'"
    Aug 29, 1966
    Columbia releases Ray Price's "Touch My Heart"
    Aug 29, 1966
    Claude Gray records "I Never Had The One I Wanted"
    Aug 29, 1966
    The Beatles perform their final concert at San Francisco's Candlestick Park. The lead singer for the opening act, The Remains, is Barry Tashian, who goes on to sing background vocals with Emmylou Harris
    Aug 29, 1966
    Singer/songwriter Shawn Camp is born in Little Rock, Arkansas. Signed to Reprise in the 1990s, he nets hits as a songwriter with George Strait's "River Of Love," Garth Brooks' "Two Pina Coladas" and Josh Turner's "Would You Go With Me"
    Aug 30, 1966
    Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs record "I'm A Man Of Constant Sorrow" at the Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville. Thirty-five later, The Soggy Bottom Boys redo it for "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
    Aug 30, 1966
    Filming is completed in Los Angeles for Elvis Presley's movie "Double Trouble"
    Aug 30, 1966
    "McHale's Navy" ends its prime-time run on ABC-TV, with Kitty Wells' son, Bobby Wright, portraying crew member Willie Moss

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