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    • Apr 4, 1940
    Songwriter Sharon Sheeley is born in Los Angeles. Eddie Cochran's girlfriend at the time of his death in 1960, she writes Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool"
    Apr 4, 1940
    Ernest Tubb has his first Decca recording session, cutting "Blue Eyed Elaine" at Houston's Rice Hotel
    Apr 4, 1938
    Songwriter/producer Norro Wilson is born in Scottsville, Kentucky. Wilson writes "The Grand Tour," "Soul Song," "The Most Beautiful Girl" and "A Picture Of Me (Without You)," and produces such acts as Charly McClain, Kenny Chesney, Sammy Kershaw and Charley Pride
    Apr 4, 1936
    Pop singer Margo Sylvia is born in Woburn, Massachusetts. As a member of The Tune Weavers, she co-writes the 1957 pop single "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby," remade as a 1986 country hit by Ronnie Milsap
    Apr 4, 1936
    Western swing band The Light Crust Doughboys hold a recording session in Fort Worth, their first to feature banjo player/guitarist Marvin Montgomery. Also present: Dick Reinhart, who goes on to record with Al Dexter, Gene Autry and Johnny Bond
    Apr 4, 1936
    Smoky Mountain Boy Bashful Brother Oswald and his first wife, Lola, are married
    Apr 4, 1934
    Milton Brown's Musical Brownies conduct a recording session widely regarded as the first official western swing recording in San Antonio
    Apr 4, 1932
    Label executive Clive Davis is born in Brooklyn, New York. He heads Columbia Records, affecting the careers of Lynn Anderson and Sonny James, and launches a country wing for Arista Records, associated with Alan Jackson and Brooks & Dunn
    Apr 4, 1930
    Victor releases Jimmie Rodgers' double-sided single "Whisper Your Mother's Name" backed with "A Drunkard's Child"
    Apr 4, 1922
    Film composer Elmer Bernstein is born in New York City. He writes two country hits, Johnny Cash's "The Sons Of Katie Elder" and Glen Campbell's "True Grit"
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