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    • Aug 18, 1977
    Johnny Paycheck performs for 400 inmates at the Correctional Center for Women in Alderson, West Virginia
    Aug 18, 1977
    Ronnie McDowell records an Elvis Presley tribute, "The King Is Gone," at Nashville's Music City Recorders
    Aug 18, 1977
    Future country star Dan Seals appears on ABC-TV's "David Soul Special" as one-half of England Dan & John Ford Coley. Also on camera: Dick Clark and Donna Summer
    Aug 18, 1977
    Jana Jae Owens asks a Los Angeles court to perform psychiatric tests on husband Buck Owens, calling him "completely erratic"
    Aug 18, 1977
    More than 75,000 people gather at Graceland to pay their respects at Elvis Presley's funeral, including Chet Atkins, Sammy Davis Jr., George Hamilton and Ann-Margret 
    Aug 19, 1977
    Comedian Groucho Marx dies at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Two years later, one of his one-liners inspires a Bellamy Brothers hit, "If I Said You Have A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me"
    Aug 19, 1977
    Warner Bros. releases The Doobie Brothers' album "Livin' On The Faultline." Drummer Keith Knudsen will go on to co-found country band Southern Pacific during the following decade
    Aug 19, 1977
    In Maryland's state lottery, $650,000 is bet on 653, the final three digits on the license plate of the hearse that carried Elvis Presley's body after his funeral
    Aug 19, 1977
    Governor Julian Carroll declares Glen Campbell Day in Kentucky
    Aug 20, 1977
    Aaron Watson is born in Amarillo, Texas. He becomes a significant artist on his home state's red-dirt circuit and earns a #1 album in 2015 with "The Underdog"
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