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    • Apr 11, 1945
    Al Dexter & His Troopers record "Triflin' Gal" and "I'm Lost Without You"
    Apr 12, 1945
    Songwriter Homer Joy is born in Heber Springs, Arkansas. He writes the Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens hit "Streets Of Bakersfield"
    Apr 12, 1945
    President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies of a stroke in Warm Springs, Georgia. After guiding the government through the Depression, he's remembered in the 1989 Alabama hit "Song Of The South"
    Apr 14, 1945
    Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys ride "Smoke On The Water" to #1 on the Billboard country singles chart
    Apr 14, 1945
    Buddy Harroll, of Pee Wee King's Golden West Cowboys, is the first to play trumpet on the Grand Ole Opry, delivering "Taps" in honor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died two days earlier
    Apr 17, 1945
    The Three Stooges lampoon western films with the debut of "Rockin' In The Rockies." It features music by The Hoosier Hot Shots and by Spade Cooley and his western swing band, including Tex Williams, Smokey Rogers and Deuce Spriggins
    Apr 20, 1945
    World War II reporter Ernie Pyle is buried in Okinawa, Japan. Accompanying the ceremony is Roy Acuff's recording "Great Speckled Bird"
    Apr 20, 1945
    Bob Wills records "Stars And Stripes On Iwo Jima," "New Spanish Two-Step" and "Silver Dew On The Blue Grass Tonight" in Hollywood
    Apr 21, 1945
    R&B singer Robert Knight is born in Franklin, Tennessee. In 1967, he records the first hit version of "Everlasting Love," which succeeds in country music a dozen years later after a recording by Narvel Felts
    Apr 22, 1945
    Guitarist Pat Enright is born in Huntington, Indiana. He becomes a founding member of The Nashville Bluegrass Band and is also a part of the fictitious Soggy Bottom Boys, providing harmonies on the award-winning "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow"
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