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    • Feb 4, 1906
    Fiddler Art Wooten is born in Sparta, North Carolina. He becomes the first fiddler in Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in 1939 and returns to the band in the early-1940s, playing on Monroe's version of the fiddle tune "Orange Blossom Special"
    Mar 16, 1906
    Buddy Starcher is born near Ripley, West Virginia. He hits the Top 5 in 1966 by noting the similarities between the lives and deaths of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy in "History Repeats Itself"
    Jun 6, 1906
    Asher Sizemore is born in Manchester, Kentucky. With his four-year-old son, he trots out a duo in the 1930s, Asher Sizemore & Little Jimmy, which becomes a major country act via the Grand Ole Opry
    Jul 19, 1906
    Harry "Tiny" Hill is born in Sullivan Township, Illinois. Earning his nickname by carrying 350 pounds on his frame, Hill develops a series of hits from the 1930s-50s
    Sep 15, 1906
    Songwriter Jack Rollins is born in West Virginia. Among the titles he authors are Gene Autry's "Frosty The Snow Man" and Hank Snow's "I Don't Hurt Anymore"
    Oct 30, 1906
    Vocalist Leon Huff is born in Whitesboro, Texas. Performing with Bob Wills' Texas Playboys in 1942, he contributes to such recordings as "Home In San Antone," "Let's Ride With Bob" and "You're From Texas"
    Nov 7, 1906
    Comedic recording artist Ernest "Red" Ingle is born in Toledo, Ohio. He nets a 1947 country hit with his remake of Bing Crosby's "Temptation (Tim-Tayshun)"
    Nov 20, 1906
    Songwriter Fred Spielman is born in Vienna, Austria. He authors Marie Osmond's "Paper Roses" and Margo Smith's "It Only Hurts For A Little While"
    Dec 25, 1906
    Guitarist Buddy Jones is born in Asheville, North Carolina. A blues singer, he also appears as a sideman on Jimmie Davis' 1936 hit "I Wish I Had Never Seen Sunshine"
    Jan 6, 1907
    Rockabilly performer Roy Hall is born in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. He records the original version of Jerry Lee Lewis' hit "A Whole Lot Of Shakin' Going On." Hall will also claim to have written the song under the pseudonym Sunny David



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