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Aug 19, 1974
Singer/songwriter Guy Clark conducts his first Nashville recording session, at RCA Studio A. He will go on to write such hits as Ricky Skaggs' "Heartbroke," Vince Gill's "Oklahoma Borderline" and Rodney Crowell's "She's Crazy For Leaving"
Aug 20, 1974
David Allan Coe records "the perfect country & western song," "You Never Even Called Me By My Name," at Nashville's Columbia Studio A, namechecking Waylon Jennings, Charley Pride, Merle Haggard and songwriter Steve Goodman
Aug 21, 1974
Preston Brust is born in Dermott, Arkansas. He's a member of the duo LoCash, earning hits "I Love This Life," "I Know Somebody" and "One Big Country Song." He also co-writes Tim McGraw's "Truck Yeah" and Keith Urban's "You Gonna Fly"
Aug 21, 1974
Future country hitmaker Jimmy Buffett records "A Pirate Looks At Forty" at Nashville's Woodland Sound Studio. The song inpires the title for "A Pirate Looks At Fifty," a Buffett book released in 2000
Aug 22, 1974
Former "National Barn Dance" star George Gobel guests on NBC-TV's "The Mac Davis Show" with Nanette Fabray
Aug 24, 1974
Merle Haggard's "Old Man From The Mountain" ascends to the top of the Billboard country singles chart
Aug 24, 1974
John Denver's "Back Home Again" tops the Billboard country albums chart for the first of 13 total weeks
Aug 24, 1974
Singer/songwriter Clint Daniels is born in Panama City, Florida. Signed to several labels beginning in the 1990s, he writes the Joe Nichols single "Brokenheartsville," Montgomery Gentry's "Roll With It" and Brooks & Dunn's "God Must Be Busy"
Aug 24, 1974
Don't look, Ethyl! Ray Stevens "barely" earns a gold single from the Recording Industry Association of America for "The Streak"
Aug 26, 1974
Aviator Charles Lindbergh dies in Kipahulu, Hawaii. The first pilot to fly solo from New York to Paris, he was mentioned in Bill Anderson's 1970 country hit "Where Have All Our Heroes Gone"
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