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    • Dec 21, 1925
    Floyd "Lightnin'" Chance is born in Como, Mississippi. He plays bass on such classics as Faron Young's "Hello Walls," Connie Smith's "Once A Day," The Everly Brothers' "Bye Bye Love" and Hank Williams' "Your Cheatin' Heart"
    Sep 28, 1926
    Comedian Jerry Clower is born in Liberty, Mississippi. His southern, small-town tales about the Ledbetter family from Yazoo City, delivered with great exaggeration, gain him membership in the Grand Ole Opry in 1973
    Dec 23, 1926
    Pop singer Harold Dorman is born in Drew, Mississippi. He has a hit in 1960 with the self-penned "Mountain Of Love," remade in 1964 by Johnny Rivers. It's a hit in 1982 for Charley Pride, who also sings Dorman's "Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town"
    May 19, 1927
    Fiddler Merle Franklin "Red" Taylor is born in Saltillo, Mississippi. He joins Little Jimmy Dickens' band, playing on "A-Sleeping At The Foot Of The Bed" and "Hillbilly Fever," plus Bill Monroe's version of "Uncle Pen"
    Jan 26, 1928
    James O'Gwynn is born in Winchester, Mississippi. Nicknamed the Smilin' Irishman, he earns his biggest hit in 1962 with the Bill Anderson song "My Name Is Mud"
    Aug 11, 1928
    Songwriter Stan Kesler is born in Abbeville, Mississippi. He writes Elvis Presley's "I Forgot To Remember To Forget"
    Feb 8, 1929
    When Jimmie Rodgers is bed-ridden with pleurisy in his hometown, a local messenger, Bill Bruner, is tabbed to do his best impersonation for six songs at a Meridian, Mississippi, theater. Rodgers gives him $10 and a guitar the next day
    Dec 10, 1929
    Steel guitarist Roy Ayres is born in Columbus, Mississippi. He joins Pee Wee King's Golden West Cowboys, playing on the hits "Slow Poke," "Bonaparte's Retreat" and "Tennessee Waltz," among others
    Mar 15, 1930
    Jimmie Rodgers is forced to cancel a show in Carthage, Mississippi, when he begins hemorrhaging in the morning from tuberculosis
    Feb 7, 1932
    Warren Smith is born in Louise, Mississippi. After debuting as a rockabilly performer on Sun Records, he shifts into honky-tonk, netting hits with 1960's "I Don't Believe I'll Fall In Love Today" and 1961's "Odds And Ends (Bits And Pieces)"
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