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Aug 7, 1968
Buck Owens records "I've Got You On My Mind Again" in the afternoon at Hollywood's Capitol Recording Studios
Aug 7, 1968
Funeral services are held for Johnny Cash guitarist Luther Perkins, who was killed by a fire at home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Pallbearers include Cash, Carl Perkins, W.S. Holland and Marshall Grant
Aug 9, 1968
Maxene Andrews announces she will become dean of women at Tahoe Paradise College, effectively dissolving The Andrews Sisters. The group had country hits in the 1940s by collaborating with Bing Crosby and Ernest Tubb
Aug 10, 1968
Glen Campbell's "A New Place In The Sun" begins a six-week run at #1 on the Billboard country albums chart
Aug 11, 1968
Glen Campbell welcomes "Get Smart" co-star Barbara Feldon and singer/producer Lee Hazlewood on the CBS variety series "The Summer Brothers Smothers Show." Campbell sings "Truck Driving Man"
Aug 12, 1968
Ray Price records "Sweetheart Of The Year"
Aug 12, 1968
Rex Allen Jr. plays a soldier in the comedic TV movie "Operation Greasepaint," starring Avery Schreiber and Jack Burns
Aug 13, 1968
Gospel and R&B singer Joe Hinton dies of cancer, four years after he earned a pop hit with the Willie Nelson-penned "Funny"
Aug 13, 1968
Eddy Arnold records "They Don't Make Love Like They Used To" at RCA Studio B on Music Row in Nashville
Aug 14, 1968
Jerry Lee Lewis records "She Still Comes Around (To Love What's Left Of Me)" at the Columbia Studios in Nashville
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