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    • Oct 12, 1950
    "The Morey Amsterdam Show" airs for the final time on the DuMont TV network. Amsterdam earned a country hit three years prior as a songwriter of the Dick Jurgens recording "(Oh Why, Oh Why, Did I Ever Leave) Wyoming"
    Oct 12, 1950
    Model and actress Susan Anton is born in Oak Glen, California. Named Miss California of 1969, she earns a country hit by teaming with Fred Knoblock on the 1980 single "Killin' Time"
    Oct 12, 1950
    "The George Burns & Gracie Allen Show" debuts on CBS-TV. Some 30 years later, Burns scores a country hit with "I Wish I Was Eighteen Again"
    Oct 15, 1950
    Bill Monroe records the original version of "Uncle Pen" during an afternoon session in Nashville. The song references the fiddle classics "Soldier's Joy" and "Jenny Lynn"
    Oct 16, 1950
    Decca releases Ernest Tubb's "(Remember Me) I'm The One Who Loves You"
    Oct 18, 1950
    "September Affair" appears in movie theaters with featured stars Joseph Cotton and Joan Fontaine. The film includes Walter Huston's performance of "September Song," a future country hit for Willie Nelson
    Oct 19, 1950
    Brian Collins is born in Baltimore, Maryland. Following the advice of Dolly Parton, he moves to Nashville, where he nets a hit with his 1974 remake of "Statue Of A Fool"
    Oct 20, 1950
    Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs hold their final session for Mercury Records, at the WDAE Studio in Tampa, Florida, recording "Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms"
    Oct 22, 1950
    Hank Snow records "Unwanted Sign Upon Your Heart" in the evening at Brown Radio Productions in Nashville
    Oct 26, 1950
    Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs sign with Columbia Records, where the bluegrass duo will reach its commercial peak
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