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  • Aug 8, 1970
    Sonny James starts a four-week run at #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with "Don't Keep Me Hangin' On"
    Aug 8, 1970
    "Me And Bobby McGee" vocalist Janis Joplin purchases a headstone for late blues singer Bessie Smith
    Aug 10, 1970
    Faron Young records a new version of his first hit, "Goin' Steady," at Nashville's Mercury Custom Recording Studios. The new rendition is also a hit
    Aug 10, 1970
    Merle Haggard records "Sidewalks Of Chicago" in a late-night session in Nashville
    Aug 11, 1970
    Columbia releases Marty Robbins' "Jolie Girl"
    Aug 12, 1970
    Jimmie Rodgers is among the guests on the week's edition of NBC's "Kraft Music Hall Presents The Des O'Connor Show"
    Aug 12, 1970
    Woody Guthrie is honored in a tribute concert at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl. The lineup includes Bob Dylan and Joan Baez
    Aug 13, 1970
    Work begins in Los Angeles on the movie "Two-Lane Blacktop." The picture stars "Bartender's Blues" songwriter James Taylor
    Aug 13, 1970
    Epic releases Tammy Wynette's "Run, Woman, Run"
    Aug 13, 1970
    Governor Lester Maddox declares Johnny Cash Day in Georgia, as Cash performs for 700 prisoners being released early for good behavior

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