This week in 1967, LBJ announced plans to send 45,000 more troops to Vietnam, the U.S. ended military airlifts to government troops in the Congo, hijackers landed a Colombian DC-7 in Havana with 78 passengers, and a singer from Littlefield, Texas had his 8th charted song.

There have been times when different ideas about songs or recordings have resulted in a song not being recorded or being re-recorded before release and according to Waylon Jennings, his 1967 hit, “The Chokin’ Kind” was one of those tunes!

Waylon commented, “The Chokin’ Kind” was written by Harlan Howar...

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