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Country Music History – June 23

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1929: June Carter was born in Maces Spring, VA, to Ezra and Mother Maybelle Carter, of The Carter Family. June co-wrote Johnny Cash’s “Ring Of Fire” and later married Cash. The couple had a pair of duet hits with “Jackson” and “If I Were A Carpenter.”

1941: Trumpet player Walter “Tubby” Lewis died of pneumonia at age 24. As a member of Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys, he appeared on such records as “Time Changes Everything,” “New San Antonio Rose” and “Take Me Back To Tulsa.”

1952: Decca released Kitty Wells’ “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.”

1953: Pake McEntire was born in Chockie, OK. The older brother of Reba McEntire, he picked up a Top 10 hit of his own in 1986 with “Savin’ My Love For You.”

1956: Ray Price spent the first of 20 weeks at #1 in Billboard magazine with “Crazy Arms.”

1957: Songwriter Keith Palmer was born in Hyatt, MO. He wrote Reba McEntire’s “For My Broken Heart” and Johnny Rodriguez’ “I Didn’t (Every Chance I Had).”

1970: Ringo Starr launched his solo career in Nashville by recording with Jerry Reed, Jeannie Kendall, The Jordanaires, Scotty Moore and Charlie Daniels. The result is the “Beaucoups Of Blues” album.

1970: Kris Kristofferson launched his first concert tour, performing at The Troubadour in West Hollywood, CA.

1974: RCA released John Denver’s “Back Home Again” album.

1978: United Artists released Kenny Rogers’ “Love Or Something Like It” album.

1979: Epic released The Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Devil Went Down To Georgia.”

1980: Waylon Jennings and Carter Robertson added last-minute touch-ups to the “Theme From The Dukes Of Hazzard (Good Ol’ Boys),” before its release as a single, at Nashville’s American Studios.

1982: Producers of “The Dukes Of Hazzard” filed a $92-million countersuit against stars John Schneider and Tom Wopat, a month after they sued Warner Bros. for $25 million over a merchandising dispute.

1986: Warner/Curb released Hank Williams Jr.’s “Montana Cafe” album.

1994: Kin Vassy died from lung cancer. A former member of Kenny Rogers & The First Edition as well as Frank Zappa & The Mothers, he sang on many of Rogers’ solo hits, including “Scarlet Fever,” “Morning Desire” and “Love Will Turn You Around.”

1995: Mindy McCready accepted a deal with RCA Records, 51 weeks to the day after she moved to Nashville.

1997: Trace Adkins told his side of a domestic gun accident in People magazine. While arguing about his drinking in 1994, he said his wife shot a .38 at him. A bullet went through both lungs and both ventricles in his heart.

2010: Loretta Lynn’s “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and the Willie Nelson album “Red Headed Stranger” were added to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry along with audio by The Band, Little Richard and The Staple Singers.