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    • May 14, 1924
    Vernon Dalhart records "The Wreck Of The Old '97" for the first time for Edison Records. He remakes the landmark single three months later for Victor
    Jul 8, 1924
    Uncle Dave Macon holds his first recording session, cutting "Keep My Skillet Good And Greasy" for Columbia in New York City
    Jul 11, 1924
    Uncle Dave Macon records "Bile Them Cabbage Down" in New York City
    Aug 13, 1924
    Vernon Dalhart records "The Wreck Of The Old '97" and "The Prisoner's Song" in New York. The two sides form the first million-selling single in country music history
    Sep 5, 1924
    Ernest Stoneman holds his first recording session, cutting two songs for Okeh Records in New York, including "The Titanic." Neither title is released
    Oct 25, 1924
    Emmett Miller holds his first recording session, at the Okeh Recording Studio in New York, though the results are never released. The minstrel singer influences such country pioneers as Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams
    Jan 8, 1925
    Ernest Stoneman records four songs, including "The Titanic," in New York. They are the first sides commercially released on the singer, who becomes one of the genre's first recording success stories
    Jan 15, 1925
    The Hill Billies record "Old Joe Clark" in New York. The track is used in the 2019 PBS series "Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns"
    Jan 27, 1925
    Nashville dance band leader Francis Craig has his first recording session in Atlanta, cutting "Marble Halls" and "Steady Roll Blues." He goes on to write the 1947 pop hit "Near You," covered as a country hit by George Jones & Tammy Wynette in 1977
    Jan 29, 1925
    Reuben Puckett and Richard Brooks record "Always Think Of Mother" and "Down By The Mississippi Shore" in Atlanta. It is believed to be the first time an ongoing country duo makes a record



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