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Sep 9, 1954
RCA declines to re-sign Porter Wagoner, though he manages to nab a hit single for the label within a month
Sep 10, 1954
Webb Pierce tries his hand at Jimmie Rodgers' "In The Jailhouse Now" during a session at the Castle Studio in Nashville. Unhappy with the results, he records the final version a dozen weeks later
Sep 10, 1954
Elvis Presley starts recording sessions that yield "Good Rockin' Tonight" and "I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine" at Memphis' Sun Recording Studio
Sep 11, 1954
Porter Wagoner records "A Satisfied Mind" and "Eat, Drink And Be Merry (Tomorrow You'll Cry)" at the KWTO Radio studio in Springfield, Missouri, at a cost of $40, two days after RCA let his contract lapse
Sep 12, 1954
"The Kollege Of Musical Knowledge" airs for the final time on NBC-TV, with Tennessee Ernie Ford hosting the game show
Sep 13, 1954
Capitol releases Hank Thompson's "The New Green Light"
Sep 13, 1954
Columbia releases Ray Price & His Cherokee Cowboys' single "If You Don't, Somebody Else Will"
Sep 13, 1954
Eddy Arnold records "Christmas Can't Be Far Away" at the RCA Studios in New York
Sep 14, 1954
Barry Cowsill, of the pop group The Cowsills, is born in Newport, Rhode Island. The group scores hits with "The Rain, The Park & Other Things," "Hair" and "Indian Lake," which is remade several years later as a country hit by Freddy Weller
Sep 14, 1954
George Jones marries his second wife, Shirley Ann Corley, in Houston
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