1959 - "The Battle Of New Orleans" wins Song of the Year for composer Jimmy Driftwood and Best Country & Western Performance for Johnny Horton at the second annual Grammy Awards.
1928 - Jimmy Dean born in Olton, Texas. A network TV host and sausage-company owner, he sells a million copies of the 1961 single "Big Bad John."
2008 - Dierks Bentley plays the Lollapalooza rock festival at Grant Park in Chicago, where fans wear T-shirts asking "Who the hell is Dierks Bentley?"
2011 - Jake Owen's "Barefoot Blue Jean Night" video debuts on CMT.
2005 - Ralph Stanley undergoes a triple bypass operation in Virginia.
2001 - Jamie O'Neal has surgery in Nashville for a ruptured disc in her back, an injury aggravated during Fan Fair a week earlier.
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You can't say the words "Rub It In" without the song starting up in your head. The Man that made that phrase famous was born this day in 1939.