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    • Mar 25, 1958
    Elvis Presley receives a standard G.I. haircut at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. As he gets his buzzcut, he quips, "Hair today, gone tomorrow!"
    Aug 20, 1959
    Bill Anderson graduates from the University of Georgia in Athens with a degree in journalism. Hours later, he moves to Nashville in a 1958 Ford "with a guitar in the backseat and a whole lot of dreams"
    Nov 5, 1960
    Johnny Horton dies in an auto accident in Austin after performing at the Skyline. Also injured: manager Tillman Franks and guitarist Tommy Tomlinson. Horton's last words before the accident: "You know, Tillman, the Lord's been real good to me this year"
    Jan 20, 1961
    "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country": John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th president of the United States in Washington, D.C. The next year, he is celebrated in Jimmy Dean's single "P.T. 109"
    Mar 8, 1961
    Elvis Presley is lauded by the Tennessee State Legislature in Nashville for "bringing fame to Memphis and Tennessee throughout the nation"
    May 22, 1961
    Mary Sue Everly sues for divorce from her husband, The Everly Brothers' Don Everly. He allegedly tells her, "Babe, you just ain't Hollywood"
    Jul 11, 1961
    Chet Atkins plays a concert in the rain in Nashville's Centennial Park without telling the audience of 10,000 that every time he touches the guitar, he gets shocked. The closest he comes to letting on is to announce "I'm real brave tonight"
    Nov 25, 1961
    After The New York Journal American's Dorothy Kilgallen referred to a Carnegie Hall lineup of country stars as "Carnegie hillbillies," Patsy Cline shoots back on a stage in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, referring to her as "the wicked witch of the east"
    Jan 22, 1962
    Patsy Cline writes to friend Louise Seger about a 13-year-old steel guitarist rooming with her on a tour that includes Johnny Cash, George Jones and Carl Perkins: "Looks like a blonde doll. And, boy, what a showman." The kid: Barbara Mandrell
    Apr 6, 1962
    Time magazine prints the lyrics of "P.T. 109" in their entirety, noting the salute to John F. Kennedy was recorded by "cowboy crooner Jimmy Dean"



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