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Jul 18, 1939
Arranger Bergen White is born in Miami, Oklahoma. He plays a role in such country hits as Elvis Presley's "Moody Blue," Ronnie Milsap's "Smoky Mountain Rain" and Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope You Dance"
Oct 27, 1939
Songwriter Dallas Frazier is born in Spiro, Oklahoma. A 1976 addition to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, he writes The Oak Ridge Boys' "Elvira," Patty Loveless' "If My Heart Had Windows" and Gene Watson's "Fourteen Carat Mind," among others
Dec 11, 1939
David Gates is born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The lead singer of the pop band Bread, he arranges Merle Haggard's hit "Sing Me Back Home" and produces an album for Billy Dean. Joe Stampley remakes Gates' song "Everything I Own" as a country hit
Jan 9, 1940
Singer/songwriter Al Downing is born in Centralia, Oklahoma. He scrapes the Top 20 in 1979 with the self-penned "Touch Me (I'll Be Your Fool Once More)," then watches Tom Jones take it to the Top 5 in 1983
Mar 25, 1940
Anita Bryant is born in Barnsdale, Oklahoma. A second runner-up for Miss America in 1958, she nets a pop hit in 1960 with "Paper Roses," retooled 13 years later as a country hit by Marie Osmond
Apr 2, 1940
After a noisy courtroom drama that included Bob Wills shouting at his own attorney, the annulment of his marriage to Mary Lou Wills is set aside. She is less than four months from bearing him a daughter
Apr 22, 1940
Jimmy Wakely and Johnny Bond lend musical support to Gene Autry when the cowboy makes an appearance on WKY Radio in Okemah, Oklahoma, promoting his movie "Rancho Grande." Autry eventually invites the two musicians to become regulars on his national radio show
May 31, 1940
Johnny Bond and Jimmy Wakely leave Oklahoma City, bound for California, where they hope to make western movies
Jul 25, 1940
Eight months after an annulment had been granted to a pregnant Mary Louise Wills, she gives Bob Wills a daughter, Rosetta Wills, born in Pawhuska, Oklahoma
Feb 5, 1941
Henson Cargill is born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. After working as a deputy sheriff, he earns his only #1 single in 1968 with the social statement "Skip A Rope"
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