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    • Aug 18, 1969
    Decca releases Conway Twitty's "To See My Angel Cry"
    Aug 18, 1969
    Oldies group Sha Na Na, including Henry Gross, serves up Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" during the final moments of Woodstock. The morning's performers also include Blood Sweat & Tears, Crosby Stills Nash & Young and Jimi Hendrix
    Aug 19, 1969
    R.B. Greaves records the pop hit "Take A Letter Maria" at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama. Anthony Armstrong Jones will score a country hit with a cover of the song the following year
    Aug 19, 1969
    Buck Owens records "Big In Vegas" at the Capitol Tower in Hollywood
    Aug 19, 1969
    Clay Walker is born in Beaumont, Texas. A dynamic live act with a growl he uses judiciously, Walker nets more than 10 years of hits, including "What's It To You," "Who Needs You Baby," "The Chain Of Love" and "She Won't Be Lonely Long"
    Aug 20, 1969
    "Honky Tonk Women" songwriter Mick Jagger's right hand is injured during filming for the movie "Ned Kelly" in Bungendore, Australia. He undergoes nine hours of surgery to have shrapnel removed after a gun loaded with blanks backfired
    Aug 20, 1969
    Bobby Goldsboro sings "Little Green Apples" on a Hawaii-based episode of NBC's "The Kraft Music Hall." Host Don Ho contributes "Gentle On My Mind" and "My Way"
    Aug 20, 1969
    Johnny Cash and June Carter record "If I Were A Carpenter" in Nashville at the Columbia Recording Studios. Cash also cuts "See Ruby Fall"
    Aug 21, 1969
    London releases The Rolling Stones' "Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)." The album includes "Honky Tonk Women," judged in a Country Music Foundation publication among country's 500 greatest singles
    Aug 22, 1969
    Colonel Tom Parker fires off a note to Elvis Presley that his jokes on stage in Las Vegas are becoming too risque
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