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    • Nov 1, 1940
    Sgt. Barry Sadler is born in Carlsbad, New Mexico. He joins the Army's Special Forces and serves in Vietnam until his leg is injured in a poisoned booby trap. After returning to the U.S., he writes and records the million-selling single "The Ballad Of The Green Berets"
    Apr 2, 1941
    Songwriter Sonny Throckmorton is born in Carlsbad, New Mexico. He writes The Judds' "Why Not Me," Jerry Lee Lewis' "Middle Age Crazy," Merle Haggard's "The Way I Am" and George Strait's "The Cowboy Rides Away," joining the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987
    Aug 10, 1942
    Bob Wills takes wife #5 in marriage #6 at Clovis, New Mexico, saying "I do" to the former Betty Anderson
    Dec 31, 1943
    Singer/songwriter John Denver is born in Roswell, New Mexico. He straddles pop and country music in the mid-1970s, making him a controversial winner of the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year award for 1975
    Jul 13, 1945
    The Roswell Daily Record, of New Mexico, reports that four young men pleaded guilty to charges of statutory rape. Among them is Lefty Frizzell
    Aug 21, 1947
    Lefty Frizzell is sentenced to jail in New Mexico for two to three years for statutory rape. Frizzell ultimately spends six months behind bars, where he writes a country hit, "I Love You A Thousand Ways"
    Sep 26, 1947
    While spending six months in a Roswell, New Mexico, jail for statutory rape, Lefty Frizzell writes "I Love You A Thousand Ways" for his wife, Alice
    Feb 21, 1948
    Lefty Frizzell ends a six-month jail sentence for statutory rape in Roswell, New Mexico. During his stay behind bars, Frizzell wrote "I Love You A Thousand Ways"
    Oct 3, 1951
    Kenny Dale is born in Artesia, New Mexico. He garners a hit in 1979 by remaking Gene Pitney's "Only Love Can Break A Heart"
    Dec 24, 1955
    Waylon Jennings marries Maxine Carroll Lawrence in Clovis, New Mexico
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