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  • May 17, 1958
    Ferriday, Louisiana, celebrates Jerry Lee Lewis Day and gives the singer the key to the city, following a parade
    Jun 4, 1958
    Jerry Lee Lewis remarries Myra Gail Brown in Ferriday, Louisiana, after returning from a trip to Great Britain. Lewis' divorce from his second wife had not been finalized when he first married Brown, his 13-year-old cousin
    Oct 7, 1958
    Singer/songwriter Rex Griffin dies in a New Orleans hospital. Though he recorded for Decca in the late-1930s, he's best remembered for writing Eddy Arnold's "Just Call Me Lonesome" and Hank Penny's "Won't You Ride In My Little Red Wagon"
    Jan 24, 1959
    Songwriter Jimmy Driftwood plays "The Louisiana Hayride" in Shreveport, where he works with Johnny Horton to streamline the lyrics to "The Battle Of New Orleans," which Horton records three days later
    Feb 26, 1959
    Songwriter Kenny Beard is born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He authors Trace Adkins' "The Rest Of Mine," Tracy Lawrence's "Is That A Tear" and Aaron Tippin's "Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly"
    Feb 27, 1959
    Jerry Lee Lewis has a son, Steve Allen Lewis, in Ferriday, Louisiana. The boy is named after TV host Steve Allen
    Jun 20, 1959
    Shreveport mayor Clyde Fant declares Johnny Horton Day. While performing that night on "The Louisiana Hayride," Horton receives a transatlantic phone call from friend and soldier Elvis Presley
    Jun 20, 1959
    Guitarist Evelyn Cox is born in Springhill, Louisiana, to Willard Cox. She joins the bluegrass-gospel act The Cox Family, a quartet that makes a major contribution to the multi-platinum soundtrack "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
    Dec 5, 1959
    New Orleans mayor Delesseps Morrison and Jimmie Davis finish one-two among 11 Democratic candidates for governor of Louisiana. They're rematched in a runoff primary election five weeks later
    Dec 22, 1959
    Record producer Mark Bright is born in Shreveport, Louisiana. Raised in Longview, Texas, he oversees sessions by Carrie Underwood, Rascal Flatts, Reba McEntire, Luke Bryan, The Swon Brothers, Sara Evans and BlackHawk

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