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    • Aug 8, 1933
    R&B vocalist Joe Tex is born in Rogers, Texas. Noted for the singles "I Gotcha" and "Skinny Legs And All," he earns a country hit as a songwriter after Barbara Mandrell covers his 1967 recording, "Show Me"
    Feb 1, 1967
    Joe Tex records the R&B hit "Show Me" at the Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville. Barbara Mandrell earns a country hit by covering the song in 1972
    Feb 23, 1972
    Barbara Mandrell records Joe Tex's "Show Me" in a 2 p.m. session at the Columbia Studios in Nashville
    Aug 13, 1982
    R&B singer/songwriter Joe Tex dies of a heart attack in Navasota, Texas. Known for such hits as "I Gotcha" and "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)," he also wrote Barbara Mandrell's 1972 country hit "Show Me"
    Aug 23, 2002
    The Matthew Perry/Elizabeth Hurley movie "Serving Sara" debuts. Sara Evans' "Saints & Angels" is heard during the picture, along with music by Joe Tex, Kid Rock, Perry Como, Delbert McClinton and Billy Joe Shaver
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