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    • May 12, 1954
    Little Jimmy Dickens records "Take Me As I Am (Or Let Me Go)" in Nashville. The song becomes a hit for Ray Price a lucky 13 years later
    May 13, 1954
    The Broadway production "The Pajama Game" opens at the St. James Theatre in New York. The musical introduces the Richard Adler-Jerry Ross song "Hernando's Hideaway," which is parodied in a country rendition by Homer & Jethro
    May 13, 1954
    Ray Kennedy is born in Buffalo, New York. He earns a hit in 1990 with "What A Way To Go," then goes on to produce alt.country albums with Steve Earle
    May 13, 1954
    Carl Smith records "Go, Boy, Go," "More Than Anything Else In The World" and "No, I Don't Believe I Will" during the afternoon at the Castle Studio in Nashville
    May 19, 1954
    Drummer Phil Rudd is born in Melbourne, Australia. He handles the kit during the key commercial years for hard-rock band AC/DC, namechecked in Craig Morgan's 2016 country hit "Bonfire"
    May 20, 1954
    Linda Porter, the wife of "Don't Fence Me In" songwriter Cole Porter, dies in their apartment at the Waldorf Towers in New York
    May 21, 1954
    Johnnie & Jack record "Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight"
    May 22, 1954
    Bob Dylan celebrates his bar mitzvah. The folk/rock legend will write Johnny Cash's "It Ain't Me, Babe," Chris Hillman & Roger McGuinn's "You Ain't Going Nowhere" and Garth Brooks' "To Make You Feel My Love"
    May 25, 1954
    James P. Carroll is born. He's the father of country singer Jason Michael Carroll
    May 27, 1954
    Loretta Lynn and her husband, Mooney, welcome a son, Ernie Lynn
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