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    • Mar 3, 1960
    Sergeant Elvis Presley arrives at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey on his return from Germany. Nancy Sinatra accompanies him, while Tina Louise--the future Ginger Grant on "Gilligan's Island"--covers the event for the Mutual Broadcast Network
    Jan 29, 1961
    Bob Dylan meets the declining Woody Guthrie in a private residence in East Orange, New Jersey. Both singer/songwriters will eventually be enshrined in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
    Dec 31, 1961
    Johnny Cash plays Camden, New Jersey, with June Carter, Flatt & Scruggs and Marty Robbins. While Robbins performs, bass player Marshall Grant tosses an M-80 into a urinal backstage, the resulting blast covering a dressing room in sewage
    Feb 4, 1962
    Clint Black is born in Long Branch, New Jersey. Raised in Houston, he earns the Country Music Association's 1989 Horizon award at the outset of a career that includes "A Better Man," "Something That We Do" and "Put Yourself In My Shoes"
    Feb 7, 1962
    Keyboard player David Bryan is born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. He earns acclaim as a member of the rock band Bon Jovi, which scores a country hit in 2006 with "Who Says You Can't Go Home," featuring Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles
    Mar 2, 1962
    Jon Bon Jovi is born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. He sings lead for the rock band Bon Jovi, which finds its way into the country charts in 2006 by working with Jennifer Nettles on "Who Says You Can't Go Home"
    Sep 6, 1962
    ABC-TV reporter Elizabeth Vargas is born in Paterson, New Jersey. In 2002, she marries singer/songwriter Marc Cohn, whose "Walking In Memphis" becomes a hit for Lonestar the following year
    Aug 9, 1963
    Soul singer Cissy Houston has a daughter, Whitney, in Newark, New Jersey. As a member of The Sweet Inspirations, mother becomes a supporting singer for Elvis Presley during 1969. The younger Houston becomes a big-voiced pop/R&B singer
    Aug 9, 1963
    Stuart Gorrell, a public relations director for Chase Manhattan Bank, dies in Ridgewood, New Jersey. He was credited as a co-writer of "Georgia On My Mind," destined to become a country hit 15 years later for Willie Nelson
    Oct 30, 1963
    Les Paul countersues Mary Ford for divorce in Hackensack, New Jersey, charging that she left him for western star Foy Willing
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