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May 23, 1951
Judy Rodman is born in Riverside, California. After singing background on hits by George Strait, T.G. Sheppard and George Jones, Rodman develops her own solo career, earning the Academy of Country Music's Top New Female award in 1986
May 23, 1951
Happy birthday to you: Mac Wiseman has his first recording session as a solo artist, cutting sides for Dot Records
May 24, 1951
Lefty Frizzell records "Always Late (With Your Kisses)," "How Long Will It Take (To Stop Loving You)" and "Mom And Dad's Waltz" at the Jim Beck Studio in Dallas
May 25, 1951
Faron Young graduates from Fair Park High School in Shreveport, Louisiana, ranked #236 in a class of 244
May 25, 1951
Marty Robbins signs a recording contract with Columbia Records in Phoenix. He remains with the company for most of the next 31 years, racking up such classics as "El Paso," "Devil Woman" and "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife"
May 26, 1951
Jimmy and Sue Dean have a son, Garry Taylor Dean
May 26, 1951
Songwriter Richard Leigh is born in McLean, Virginia. He writes Crystal Gayle's "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue," Billy Dean's "Somewhere In My Broken Heart," Steve Wariner's "Life's Highway" and Reba McEntire's "The Greatest Man I Never Knew"
May 28, 1951
Columbia releases Carl Smith's double-sided single, "Mr. Moon" backed by "If Teardrops Were Pennies"
May 30, 1951
Lee Wallard wins the Indianapolis 500 at a speed of 126 miles per hour. The crowd includes Tiny Hill, who earned a hit months earlier with "Hot Rod Race"
May 31, 1951
Pop vocalist Tony Bennett records Hank Williams' "Cold, Cold Heart" with producer Mitch Miller at the CBS Studio in New York
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