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Sep 22, 1961
"Five Star Jubilee" ends a six-month run on NBC. The country variety series, telecast from Springfield, Missouri, rotated five hosts: Rex Allen, Snooky Lanson, Tex Ritter, Carl Smith and Jimmy Wakely
Feb 11, 1962
Pop/rock musician Sheryl Crow is born in Kennett, Missouri. She appears on country collaborations with Kid Rock and with Brooks & Dunn and Vince Gill. Crow also nabs a Top 5 country album in 2013 with "Feels Like Home"
Apr 30, 1962
Bass player Robert Reynolds is born in Kansas City, Missouri. He's a founding member of The Mavericks, who gain the Country Music Association's Vocal Group of the Year twice in the mid-'90s. He marries Trisha Yearwood for five years
Jul 13, 1962
Rhonda Vincent is born in Kirksville, Missouri. She emerges as a major bluegrass talent in the 1990s and 2000s, and contributes to the Grammy-winning country album "Lovin', Livin', Losin': Songs Of The Louvin Brothers"
Mar 3, 1963
Patsy Cline gives what proves to be her final show, a benefit for the widow of deejay "Cactus Jack" Call, at the Memorial Building in Kansas City, Kansas. Also appearing: Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas, Dottie West, Billy Walker, George Jones and Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper
Mar 13, 1963
Traditional country singer/songwriter Billy Yates is born in Doniphan, Missouri. He pens the George Jones singles "Choices" and "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair"
Jun 2, 1963
Roy Acuff attends his first Major League Baseball game in St. Louis. The San Francisco Giants beat the Cardinals, 6-4. Broadcaster Dizzy Dean brings Acuff into the booth and coaxes him into singing one verse of "Wabash Cannonball"
Oct 18, 1963
Chuck Berry leaves the Federal Medical Center in Springfield, Missouri, after serving one year of a three-year sentence for violating the Mann Act. During his stay, he wrote "(You Never Can Tell) C'est La Vie," a future country hit for Emmylou Harris
Oct 22, 1963
Thieves in St. Louis steal a saddle embedded with 65 silver dollars from Webb Pierce's car while the singer appears on an all-night radio show. Police later find the saddle--minus the silver dollars
Jun 20, 1965
Ira Louvin and his wife, Anne, die in an automobile accident headed east on Interstate 70 in Callaway County, Missouri. His car is hit by another car headed west. Several open alcohol bottles are discovered in the westbound auto
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