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    • May 18, 1936
    Leon Ashley is born near Covington, Georgia. He establishes his own label, Ashley Records, and hits #1 as an artist in 1967 with "Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)"
    May 25, 1936
    Singer/songwriter Tom T. Hall is born in Olive Hill, Kentucky. Nicknamed "The Storyteller," he earns a string of plot-thick hits and writes titles such as "Harper Valley P.T.A." and "Little Bitty" en route to membership in the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame
    Jun 22, 1936
    Kris Kristofferson is born in Brownsville, Texas. He records the 1973 hit "Why Me," becomes a member of The Highwaymen, appears in numerous movies and writes such classics as "Help Me Make It Through The Night" and "For The Good Times," landing in the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Jun 30, 1936
    Bass player Doyle Holly is born in Perkins, Oklahoma. He becomes a longtime member of Buck Owens' Buckaroos, contributing to two dozen hits, including "Together Again," "I've Got A Tiger By The Tail" and "My Heart Skips A Beat"
    Jul 21, 1936
    Steel guitarist Hal Rugg is born in New York City. He plays on the majority of Loretta Lynn's hits, including "Coal Miner's Daughter," "One's On The Way" and "Don't Come Home A'Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)"
    Jul 24, 1936
    Songwriter Max D. Barnes is born in Hardscratch, Iowa. His credits include "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes," by George Jones; "Don't Take It Away," by Conway Twitty; "Look At Us," by Vince Gill; and "Chiseled In Stone," by Vern Gosdin
    Aug 4, 1936
    Bass singer Elsbeary Hobbs is born in New York. In the 1950s, he joins The Drifters, singing on "Save The Last Dance For Me," resurrected three different times as a country hit--by Buck Owens, Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton
    Sep 7, 1936
    Rock & roll pioneer Buddy Holly is born in Lubbock, Texas. Cohorts Waylon Jennings, Sonny Curtis and Bob Montgomery go on to find success in country music, while Holly's "True Love Ways" becomes a country hit for Mickey Gilley in 1980
    Sep 9, 1936
    Earl Scott is born in Youngstown, Ohio. He picks up a 1962 hit with a recording of the Warner Mack-penned "Then A Tear Fell"
    Sep 17, 1936
    Songwriter Dewayne Blackwell is born in Corpus Christi, Texas. He pens Garth Brooks' "Friends In Low Places," T.G. Sheppard's "Make My Day" and David Frizzell's "I'm Gonna Hire A Wino To Decorate Our Home"



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