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    • Apr 24, 1945
    Creedence Clearwater Revival bassist Doug Clifford is born in Palo Alto, California. The rock band's song "Lookin' Out My Back Door" is named among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number"
    Apr 24, 1945
    Singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie auditions for a place in the Army's entertainment division. After singing several songs, he is summarily rejected
    Apr 25, 1945
    Stu Cook is born in Oakland, California. Cook plays bass in the rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, and later plays with country's Southern Pacific, who mix smooth harmonies with brisk backbeats in "The Perfect Stranger" and "New Shade Of Blue"
    Apr 27, 1945
    "Beyond The Pecos" appears in theaters. Ray Whitley and his 6-Bar Cowboys add music, with a hand from Merle Travis
    Apr 28, 1945
    Deposed dictator Benito Mussolini is hung in Mezzegra, Italy, in the closing days of World War II. Just months earlier, his name had appeared in the lyrics of a hillbilly hit: Red Foley's "Smoke On The Water"
    Apr 30, 1945
    With World War II coming to a perceptible end, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler commits suicide in Berlin with a shot to the head. Three years earlier, he was recognized in the title of Carson Robison's topical country hit "Mussolini's Letter To Hitler"
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