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    • Dec 1, 1945
    Bette Midler is born in Paterson, New Jersey. She records the pop hit "The Rose," which Conway Twitty later turns into a country single, and remakes Gary Morris' "The Wind Beneath My Wings" as a pop recording
    Dec 4, 1945
    Singer/songwriter Gary P. Nunn is born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. A key figure in the rise of Texas country, he writes the Willie Nelson hit "Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning" and Rosanne Cash's "Couldn't Do Nothin' Right"
    Dec 6, 1945
    Burl Ives marries Helen Payne Ehrlich, a writer and director for CBS Radio
    Dec 8, 1945
    Ernest Tubb reaches the top spot on the Billboard country singles chart with "It's Been So Long Darling"
    Dec 8, 1945
    Fiddlin' Arthur Smith lets loose on "Orange Blossom Special" in the debut of "The Lonesome Trail." The western movie stars Jimmy Wakely, plus Lee "Lasses" White, Mary Ford, guitarist Jack Rivers and Texas Playboy Jesse Ashlock
    Dec 8, 1945
    Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs perform together on the Grand Ole Opry for the first time as members of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. The moment at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium is regarded as the birth of bluegrass
    Dec 9, 1945
    Spade Cooley marries Ella Mae Evin in Las Vegas, three months after his divorce from his first wife
    Dec 10, 1945
    Rex Allen holds his first recording session, for Mercury Records
    Dec 13, 1945
    Decca releases The Hoosier Hot Shots' "Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)"
    Dec 15, 1945
    Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys rise to #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with "Silver Dew On The Blue Grass Tonight"
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