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    • Aug 15, 1881
    Broadway composer Ted Snyder is born in Freeport, Illinois. His credits include Milton Brown & His Brownies' "Who's Sorry Now?," hailed among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Mar 21, 1882
    Bascom Lunsford is born in Mars Hill, North Carolina. A folk music collector and promoter, he also co-writes the country classic "Mountain Dew"
    Mar 18, 1883
    Songwriter Maurice Abrahams is born in Russia. He co-writes "Ragtime Cowboy Joe," a song that appears in several western movies before becoming a country hit for Eddy Howard in 1947
    Feb 16, 1884
    Pop lyricist Bert Kalmar is born in New York City. He co-writes "Who's Sorry Now?," which becomes a bellwether recording for western swing act Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies. Kalmar joins the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970
    Mar 16, 1884
    Pop songwriter Joe Burke is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The author of "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" and "Rambling Rose," he also writes the 1925 hit "Oh, How I Miss You Tonight," a 1979 country hit for Deborah Allen and the late Jim Reeves
    Mar 18, 1885
    Songwriter Ed Nelson is born in Flushing, New York. The father of songwriters Steve Nelson and Ed Nelson Jr., the senior Nelson pens Red Foley's "Hang Your Head In Shame" and Hank Williams' "Settin' The Woods On Fire"
    Oct 25, 1885
    Lyricist Sam Lewis is born in New York City. The author of "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody" and "Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My Girl?)," he also pens the Jimmie Rodgers hit "In The Hills Of Tennessee"
    Nov 26, 1885
    The reverend Andy Jenkins is born in Jenkinsburg, Georgia. A member of The Jenkins Family, one of the first country acts to perform on the radio, he also writes Jimmie Rodgers' single "Ben Dewberry's Final Run"
    Dec 31, 1885
    Pop songwriter Edgar Leslie is born in Stamford, Connecticut. Noted for such titles as "Moon Over Miami" and "For Me And My Gal," he also authors "Among My Souvenirs," retooled for the country charts by Marty Robbins in 1976
    Aug 31, 1886
    Pop songwriter L. Wolfe Gilbert is born in Odessa, Russia. He pens Gene Austin's 1928 hit "Ramona," reworked for the country audience by Billy Walker in 1968



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