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    • Oct 13, 1970
    Janis Joplin's ashes are scattered into the Pacific Ocean in a ceremony on the coast of California. The next year, her version of "Me And Bobby McGee" is released, eventually honored among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Oct 13, 1969
    Sonny James performs "Since I Met You Baby" as a guest on the ABC series "The Music Scene." Other guests include Judy Collins, Jerry Butler and Tony Bennett
    Oct 13, 1969
    "I'm so glad we had this time together..." Bobbie Gentry is a return visitor on the CBS variety series "The Carol Burnett Show"
    Oct 13, 1969
    Decca releases Bill Anderson's duet with Jan Howard, "If It's All The Same To You"
    Oct 13, 1969
    Rhett Akins is born in Valdosta, Georgia. After three hits as an artist in the 1990s, he transitions into songwriting, composing Luke Bryan's "Huntin', Fishin' And Lovin' Every Day," Jason Aldean's "When She Says Baby," Thomas Rhett's "Life Changes" and Blake Shelton's "I Lived It," among others
    Oct 13, 1968
    Marty Robbins finishes 12th driving a 1967 Dodge Charger at the National 500 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina
    Oct 13, 1962
    "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf" opens at the Billy Rose Theatre in New York. After reading the show's script, songwriter Billy Edd Wheeler is inspired to write the Johnny Cash/June Carter duet "Jackson"
    Oct 13, 1962
    Months after Jimmy Dean netted a country hit with his song "To A Sleeping Beauty," comedian and songwriter Jackie Gleason appears on the cover of TV Guide
    Oct 13, 1962
    Don Everly collapses on stage at the outset of an English tour. He is hospitalized at Charing Cross Hospital in London for a drug overdose, though the hospital calls it food poisoning. He tries a second overdose the same day in his hotel room
    Oct 13, 1962
    John Wiggins is born in Nashville. A member of the 1990s duo John & Audrey Wiggins, he later writes Joe Nichols' "Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off," Randy Houser's "Anything Goes" and Blake Shelton's "Who Are You When I'm Not Looking"
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