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Aug 18, 1928
Earlington Tilghman is born. Under the name Sonny Til, he leads the R&B group The Orioles, whose 1953 recording of "Crying In The Chapel" is named one of country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number"
Aug 22, 1928
Songwriter and artist manager Jerry Capehart is born in Goodman, Missouri. He's credited as a co-writer of Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues," a late-'50s rock & roll hit destined to be refashioned as a country single in 1994 by Alan Jackson
Aug 25, 1928
Fiddler Jerry Rivers is born in Nashville. He joins Hank Williams' Drifting Cowboys from 1949-1951, playing on such classics as "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," "Hey, Good Lookin'" and "Cold, Cold Heart"
Aug 27, 1928
Frances Preston is born in Nashville. In 1958, she founds a local division of BMI, which collects and distributes money to songwriters and publishers for the public performance of their songs. In 1985, she moves to New York to run the entire agency
Aug 30, 1928
Vocalist and arranger Johnny Mann is born in Baltimore, Maryland. He forms The Johnny Mann Singers, a Los Angeles vocal group that is featured on Walter Brennan's country recitation "Old Rivers"
Sep 10, 1928
Record executive Charlie Fach is born in Camden, New Jersey. Through his employment at the Smash, Mercury and Compleat labels, he works with Roger Miller, Vern Gosdin and George Burns
Sep 11, 1928
Randy Hughes is born in Gum, Tennessee. He manages Patsy Cline and plays guitar on many of her hits, including "Crazy," "I Fall To Pieces" and "She's Got You." He also pilots the plane that crashes in 1963, claiming their lives, as well as Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins
Sep 15, 1928
Songwriter Tommy Faile is born in Lancaster, South Carolina. He pens Red Sovine's trucker recitation "Phantom 309"
Sep 16, 1928
Steel guitarist Ralph Mooney is born in Duncan, Oklahoma. He co-writes the Ray Price classic "Crazy Arms" and plays on hits by Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Wynn Stewart and Buck Owens, among others
Sep 19, 1928
Bluegrass promoter Carlton Haney is born in Rockingham County, North Carolina. The first person to organize a weekend bluegrass festival, he also co-writes the Conway Twitty hit "To See My Angel Cry"
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