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Oct 24, 1936
Bass player Bill Wyman is born in Penge, Great Britain. He becomes a member of The Rolling Stones, whose early single "It's All Over Now" is remade by John Anderson as a country hit
Oct 26, 1936
Session guitarist Al Casey is born in Long Beach, California. Working on the West Coast, he appears on recordings by The Beach Boys and by Glen Campbell, including "Wichita Lineman," "Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife" and "Galveston"
Oct 26, 1936
Elmo Shropshire is born in Lexington, Kentucky. He becomes one-half of the duo Elmo & Patsy, whose Christmas novelty "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" emerges as a weird annual tradition beginning in 1979
Oct 28, 1936
Charlie Daniels is born in Wilmington, North Carolina. A leading figure in the Southern rock movement, his song "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" gives him permanent footing in country music. In 2008, he becomes a member of the Grand Ole Opry; in 2016, he joins the Country Music Hall of Fame
Nov 5, 1936
Songwriter/producer Billy Sherrill is born in Phil Campbell, Alabama. He writes "Stand By Your Man," "Almost Persuaded" and "The Most Beautiful Girl," among others, and produces such acts as George Jones, Johnny Paycheck and Marty Robbins, earning induction in the Country Music Hall of Fame
Nov 9, 1936
Mary Travers is born in Louisville, Kentucky. She provides the female voice in the 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary, whose recordings include a minor pop hit with "For Lovin' You," remade as a country hit in 1967 by Waylon Jennings
Nov 11, 1936
Pop songwriter Jack Keller is born in Brooklyn, New York. He earns country hits when Debby Boone covers "My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own" and Ernest Tubb records "Ev'rybody's Somebody's Fool"
Nov 12, 1936
Songwriter Mort Shuman is born in New York City. He writes several Elvis Presley hits, Dwight Yoakam's "Little Sister" and "Save The Last Dance For Me," which becomes a country hit three different times--for Buck Owens, for Emmylou Harris and for Dolly Parton
Nov 17, 1936
Record executive Bruce Hinton is born in Tell City, Indiana. Hinton becomes the head of MCA Records beginning in 1989, overseeing the careers of George Strait, Trisha Yearwood, Vince Gill, Reba McEntire, The Mavericks and others
Dec 6, 1936
Guitarist and bass player Jack Cooke is born in Norton, Virginia. As one of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, he appears on the 1959 hit "Gotta Travel On." He eventually plays with Ralph Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys for 39 years
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