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Aug 25, 1973
Merle Haggard takes "Everybody's Had The Blues" to the top spot on the Billboard country singles chart
Aug 26, 1973
Jerry Lee Lewis has his nose broken by a fellow diner at T.G.I. Friday's in Memphis, after The Killer calls the man's female companion a "redneck whore"
Aug 27, 1973
Bud Logan & Wilma Burgess record "Wake Me Into Love" at the Fireside Studio on 18th Avenue in Nashville
Aug 27, 1973
MCA releases Jeanne Pruett's "I'm Your Woman"
Aug 27, 1973
John Denver registers an RIAA-certified gold album, for "Farewell Andromeda"
Aug 27, 1973
Dottie West marries drummer Byron Metcalf in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. "Donna Fargo isn't the happiest girl in the U.S.A.," she tells The Tennessean. "I am"
Aug 28, 1973
Deep Purple earns a gold single from the RIAA for "Smoke On The Water." The signature guitar riff, created by Ritchie Blackmore, will be used in passing in Wynonna's 1994 country single "Girls With Guitars"
Aug 28, 1973
Bobby "Boris" Pickett receives a gold single from the RIAA for "Monster Mash." The backing group on the graveyard smash, The Crypt-Kickers, includes Leon Russell, country songwriter Johnny MacRae and producer Gary S. Paxton
Aug 28, 1973
Tanya Tucker records "Would You Lay With Me (In A Field Of Stone)" in Nashville. While songwriter David Allan Coe attends the session, his car is stolen from the Columbia Studio parking lot
Aug 30, 1973
Ray Stevens hosts "Dean Martin Presents: Music Country" on NBC. His guests include Ferlin Husky, Diana Trask, Anne Murray, Jerry Reed, Joe Stampley, Tammy Wynette, Sonny James, Nat Stuckey, Don Gibson and Chet Atkins
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