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Aug 26, 1987
Randy Travis eats a hamburger prior to boarding his bus for a tour. The next day, he's hospitalized in Wytheville, Virginia, with food poisoning
Aug 27, 1987
Singer/songwriter Benny Barnes dies in Beaumont, Texas. More than three decades earlier, he scored his lone country hit, "Poor Man's Riches," for the Starday label
Aug 27, 1987
Randy Travis is hospitalized in Wytheville, Virginia, with complications from food poisoning, incurred the previous day
Aug 29, 1987
Hank Williams Jr. hits #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with "Born To Boogie"
Aug 29, 1987
Hank Williams Jr. hits #1 on the Billboard country albums chart with "Born To Boogie"
Aug 29, 1987
Comedian Archie Campbell dies in Knoxville following a heart attack. Following his 1958 membership in the Grand Ole Opry, he gained national fame as a cast member of "Hee Haw" with regular routines built around mangled, mispronounced words
Aug 29, 1987
Joe Diffie marries Debra Kay Diffie
Aug 30, 1987
Monique Peer dies in West Hollywood, California. The wife of late record producer and Country Music Hall of Fame member Ralph Peer, she ran the peer music group after his death in 1960
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