The Music and Memories of June 4

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2006- At age 71, Loretta Lynn breaks her left shoulder during a fall at home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. This requires her to cancel nine concerts.

1992- During a ceremony at Memphis' Graceland Mansion, Priscilla Presley announces the postal service has selected the younger, '50s-era Elvis Presley for a postage stamp, over the '70s-era Elvis, following voting by the general public.  Elvis was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1998.

1982- Alabama sponsors the first June Jam in Ft. Payne, Alabama. More than 30,000 attend the charity concert. Janie Fricke, The Oak Ridge Boys, Louis Mandrell and R.C. Bannon are also on the bill.

Birthdays

Freddy Fender, 1937. 'Wasted Days And Wasted Nights' 'Before The Next Teardrop Falls.'

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