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    • Aug 3, 1921
    Lyricist Richard Adler is born in New York City. Best known for working on the musicals "The Pajama Game" and "Damn Yankees," he also authors "The Strange Little Girl," a 1951 country hit for Ernest Tubb and Red Foley
    Jan 17, 1954
    Lyricist Richard Adler has a son, Christopher Adler. Dad wrote the Ernest Tubb-Red Foley hit "The Strange Little Girl"
    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
    Nov 24, 1956
    After more than two years on Broadway, the musical "The Pajama Game" closes at Manhattan's Shubert Theatre. The production introduced Jerry Ross and Richard Adler's "Hernando's Hideaway," a country hit when parodied by Homer & Jethro
    Jan 3, 1958
    Lyricist Richard Adler marries actress Sally Ann Howes, known for her work on Broadway in "My Fair Lady." Seven years earlier, Adler had a country hit as a songwriter with Ernest Tubb and Red Foley's version of "The Strange Little Girl"
    Apr 15, 1984
    The Songwriters Hall of Fame inducts Neil Diamond, who authored the Glen Campbell hit "Sunflower," during a ceremony in New York. Also inducted: Richard Adler, Al Hoffman, Henry Mancini and George David Weiss
    Nov 30, 1984
    Just months after Richard Adler was inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, his son, Christopher Adler, dies at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The senior Adler wrote the Ernest Tubb-Red Foley hit "The Strange Little Girl"
    May 26, 1991
    Forty years after Ernest Tubb and Red Foley had a hit with his song "The Strange Little Girl," Broadway lyricist Richard Adler marries Susan Ivory
    Jun 21, 2012
    Songwriter Richard Adler dies at home in Southampton, New York. The composer of several Broadway musicals, he wrote "The Strange Little Girl," a 1951 country hit for Ernest Tubb and Red Foley
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