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    • Aug 15, 1968
    Don and Venetia Everly have a son, Edan Donald Everly, in Burbank, California
    Aug 15, 1968
    "A Time To Sing," starring Hank Williams Jr., debuts at Nashville's Paramount Theater. The movie includes Williams' hit "It's All Over But The Crying"
    Aug 17, 1968
    Sonny James racks up a #1 country single in Billboard with "Heaven Says Hello"
    Aug 18, 1968
    Kenny Rogers & The First Edition drop in on the CBS-TV series "The Summer Brothers Smothers Show." Hosted by Glen Campbell, the episode also features John Hartford and comedians Stiller & Meara
    Aug 19, 1968
    "The Monkees" ends a two-year prime-time run on NBC-TV. The group's "Last Train To Clarksville" is named among country's 500 greatest singles in the 2003 Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Aug 19, 1968
    Mark McGuinn is born in Winnsboro, South Carolina. His experimental, genre-busting brand of country generates an unlikely hit on an independent label during the spring of 2001 with "Mrs. Steven Rudy"
    Aug 20, 1968
    Tammy Wynette leaves her Nashville home and husband Don Chapel for a relationship with George Jones
    Aug 20, 1968
    Jan Howard hauls her son, Corky Howard, to the Nashville airport, where he departs for military deployment in Vietnam. She made the same trip with her eldest son exactly two months prior
    Aug 20, 1968
    Colonel Tom Parker attends a screening of Elvis Presley's forthcoming TV special. The manager blows up because the show doesn't include a Christmas song
    Aug 21, 1968
    "If I Were A Carpenter" songwriter Tim Hardin performs on NBC's "The Kraft Music Hall," also featuring Ed McMahon and Sly & The Family Stone
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