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    • Aug 5, 1997
    Kim Richey performs at the Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia, for an audience that includes president Bill Clinton and vice president Al Gore
    Aug 6, 1997
    LeAnn Rimes visits a seven-year-old girl who has been in a Reno, Nevada, hospital with a coma since she was injured in a car accident. Rimes sings "Blue" to the girl, who shows eye movement and soon returns to health
    Aug 6, 1997
    When Jon Bon Jovi does a lunchtime on-air stint from a Nashville restaurant for a pop radio station, the crowd includes one Jo Dee Messina
    Aug 7, 1997
    Loretta Lynn Day is declared in the state of Minnesota
    Aug 7, 1997
    Garth Brooks gives a free concert in New York's Central Park that's broadcast live on HBO. He launches with "Rodeo" and welcomes guests Don McLean and Billy Joel, who joins Brooks on "Ain't Going Down (Til The Sun Comes Up)." Crowd estimates range from 200,000 to more than 1 million, as the city observes Garth Brooks Day
    Aug 9, 1997
    Curb releases Tim McGraw's single "Just To See You Smile"
    Aug 10, 1997
    NASA wakes the crew on the Discovery Space Shuttle with a song that picks out a place on God's green earth: Alabama's "My Home's In Alabama"
    Aug 10, 1997
    Showtime airs "Elvis Meets Nixon," with Ronnie McDowell providing the musical voice of The King
    Aug 10, 1997
    Al Gore throws a Democratic fundraiser that gains support from the country music community at The Hermitage in Nashville. Performing: The Buffalo Club, Kim Richey, The Thompson Brothers and James Bonamy
    Aug 12, 1997
    The state of Missouri observes Porter Wagoner Day as Wagoner turns 70
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