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Feb 25, 1932

Faron Young is born in Shreveport, Louisiana. One of country's most colorful figures, he founds The Music City News and launches more than 40 hits from 1953-1974 on his way to admission in 2000 to the Country Music Hall of Fame

Feb 26, 1932

J.R. Cash is born in Kingsland, Arkansas. As Johnny Cash, he joins the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, rising to prominence with rockabilly music at Sun Records and graduating to become an icon for country music behind "Ring Of Fire," "I Walk The Line" and "Folsom Prison Blues"

Feb 27, 1932

Actress Elizabeth Taylor is born in London. She inspires Jimmy Fortune to write The Statler Brothers' hit "Elizabeth" and gets referenced in the 1972 Loretta Lynn single "One's On The Way"

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 10, 1932

Guitar player Leon Rhodes is born in Dallas, Texas. He gains recognition as the longtime lead guitarist with Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours, but also plays on hits by Waylon Jennings, Moe Bandy and George Strait

Mar 15, 1932

Producer and arranger Arif Mardin is born in Istanbul, Turkey. Noted for his work with the likes of Aretha Franklin, The Bee Gees and Chaka Khan, he also produces Dusty Springfield's "Son-Of-A Preacher Man" and Willie Nelson's "Uncloudy Day"

Mar 17, 1932

Dick Curless is born in Fort Fairfield, Maine. Nicknamed the Baron of Country Music, he drives into the Top 10 in 1965 with his trucker classic "A Tombstone Every Mile"

Apr 1, 1932

"Debbie's out in Vegas workin' up a brand new act..." Actress Debbie Reynolds is born in El Paso, Texas. The year she turns 40, she's celebrated in the opening verse of Loretta Lynn's country hit "One's On The Way"

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 5, 1932

Robert Hulseman is born in Chicago. Employed at the Solo company, he invents a drinking aid that's hailed in Toby Keith's 2011 country hit "Red Solo Cup"

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