This week in 1954, President Eisenhower signed a bill extending Social Security to $10 million more, Congress instituted the death penalty for espionage in peacetime, Soviet jets downed a U.S. patrol plane over the Sea of Japan, and a brother and sister trio from Sparkman, Ark., had scored their first hit record.

Jim Ed Brown commented, “Looking Back To See” was our first recording. It was the first song that Maxine and I wrote together. It was also the first song we ever had a hit with. We recorded the song at KWKH Radio studios in Shreveport, La. Jim Reeves played rhythm guitar, ...

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