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Mar 4, 1938
The Tex Ritter movie "Frontier Town" debuts. The western's plot is filled with rodeos, gambling and counterfeiting
Mar 4, 1936
Trombone player Eric Allendale is born in Dominica, West Indies. He plays on The Foundations' "Baby, Now That I've Found You," a 1960s pop hit that's reimagined by Alison Krauss as a Grammy-winning country release
Mar 4, 1936
Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies record 22 songs at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, including "The Yellow Rose Of Texas" and "Right Or Wrong"
Mar 4, 1934
Bluegrass mandolin player John Duffey is born in Washington, D.C. He gains acclaim as a member of The Country Gentlemen, whose blend of traditional and progressive bluegrass allows them to work for over 40 years, despite numerous lineup changes
Mar 4, 1933
Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated in Washington, D.C., for the first of his four terms as president, in which he becomes the first to welcome a country artist to the White House. He's referenced in Alabama's 1989 hit "Song Of The South"
Mar 4, 1932
Betty Jack Davis is born in Corbin, Kentucky. Along with Skeeter Davis, who is unrelated, she forms The Davis Sisters, but dies in a car crash just weeks before their only hit, "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know," reaches the national charts
Mar 4, 1928
Record producer and executive Frank Jones is born in Toronto. He works with Columbia, Capitol, Mercury and Warner Bros., and co-produces such hits as John Anderson's "Swingin'," Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John," The Statler Brothers' "Flowers On The Wall" and Marty Robbins' "Devil Woman"
Mar 4, 1926
Frances Wolfe is born in The Bronx, New York. Known publicly as Fran Warren, she provides the lead vocals when Claude Thornhill & His Orchestra record the first hit version of "A Sunday Kind Of Love" in 1946. Reba McEntire has a country hit with the song in 1988
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