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Feb 20, 1942
Bill Boyd stars as a singing undercover marshal in the new movie "Raiders Of The West." Among the bad guys is singer/songwriter Eddie Dean
Feb 20, 1942
Ted Daffan's Texans record "Born To Lose" and "No Letter Today" in the CBS Studios at the corner of Gower & Vine in Los Angeles
Feb 24, 1942
Banjo player Little Roy Lewis is born in Lincolnton, Georgia. He joins The Lewis Family, whose bluegrass-gospel record "His Blood Now Covers My Sin" is named among country's 500 greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation publication
Feb 24, 1942
Gene Autry records "Deep In The Heart Of Texas" and "I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes" in Hollywood
Feb 26, 1942
Johnny Cash receives a guitar from his mother for his 10th birthday
Feb 28, 1942
R&B singer Barbara Acklin is born in Chicago. She marries The Chi-Lites' Eugene Record, who writes "Oh Girl," a 1982 country hit for Con Hunley
Feb 28, 1942
Guitarist Brian Jones is born in Cheltenham, England. He becomes a member of The Rolling Stones, whose 1964 recording of "It's All Over Now" is remade by John Anderson in the mid-1980s as a country hit
Feb 28, 1942
"The Roy Acuff Songbook Show" debuts on the Grand Ole Opry at Nashville's War Memorial Auditorium. Sales of the folio eventually approach 1 million copies, providing seed money for the founding of Acuff-Rose Publishing
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