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    • Feb 15, 1945
    Decca releases Ernest Tubb's double-sided hit, "Tomorrow Never Comes" backed with "Keep My Mem'ry In Your Heart"
    Feb 18, 1945
    Country Music Association executive director Ed Benson is born in Nashville. He becomes the CMA's leader when Jo Walker-Meador retires in 1992 and maintains the post until his own retirement in 2008
    Feb 19, 1945
    Okeh releases Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys' double-sided single, "Smoke On The Water" backed by "Hang Your Head In Shame"
    Feb 19, 1945
    Five days after first meeting at the Schroeder Hotel in Milwaukee, songwriters Boudleaux and Felice Bryant marry informally. The real marriage doesn't occur until later that year. The two go on to membership in the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Feb 19, 1945
    The 36-day battle for Iwo Jima begins in Japan, with 6,825 Americans dying. Among the survivors is teenager Jerry Clower. One of the soldiers who raises the flag on Mt. Suribachi becomes the topic of a 1964 Johnny Cash hit, "The Ballad Of Ira Hayes"
    Feb 20, 1945
    Curley Williams & His Georgia Peach Pickers hold their first recording session, for Columbia Records, in Chicago
    Feb 23, 1945
    A flag is raised on Mt. Suribachi on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima. A photograph of the event becomes part of American history, though one of the soldiers has trouble dealing with his fame, inspiring the Johnny Cash hit "The Ballad Of Ira Hayes"
    Feb 24, 1945
    Keyboard player Clarence McDonald is born in Los Angeles. He plays on pop and R&B hits by James Taylor, The Jackson 5, Billy Preston and Al Wilson, he takes part in recording Linda Ronstadt's country remake of "Crazy"
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