This week in 1963, The U.S. ousted a Soviet diplomat for trying to recruit a CIA agent, The Postmaster General inaugurated the zip code, President Kennedy conferred with Pope Paul VI, and a young singer from Virginia had his first hit record. A lot of recording artists go out looking for songs while others have the good fortune of songs looking for them. According to Roy Clark, most of the songs he recorded came looking for him! Roy commented, “My producer—in fact he wasn’t even my producer at the time—but he was a real good friend of mine and I was with Capitol Record...

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