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    • Apr 25, 1915
    Cliff Bruner is born in Texas City, Texas. The fiddler performs briefly with Milton Brown before going on his own and recording for Decca in the late-1930s
    May 7, 1915
    Kyle Bailes is born in Kanawha County, West Virginia. He plays bass behind Hank Williams on "The Louisiana Hayride," and performs in various incarnations of the family duo The Bailes Brothers
    May 20, 1915
    Arranger and trumpet player Bill McElhiney is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He appears on hits by Bill Anderson, Jim Reeves and Johnny Cash, most notably the 1963 classic "Ring Of Fire"
    May 27, 1915
    Bass player and vocalist Bert Dodson is born in Dallas, Texas. He joins The Cass County Boys, performing on Dallas radio station WFAA before moving into movies. Dodson also backs Johnny Bond on two hits: "Sober, Sick And Sorry" and "Love Song In 32 Bars"
    Jun 1, 1915
    Johnny Bond is born in Enville, Oklahoma. A singer, songwriter and actor, he provides an on-screen sidekick for Gene Autry and Tex Ritter. Bond also earns a handful of country hits on his way to the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Jun 9, 1915
    Guitarist and studio innovator Les Paul is born in Waukesha, Wisconsin. His album with Chet Atkins, "Chester And Lester," wins a country Grammy in 1977, and he earns a country hit, "Mockin' Bird Hill," with wife Mary Ford in 1951
    Jun 17, 1915
    David "Stringbean" Akeman is born in Annville, Kentucky. As a banjo player, he joins Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. But he is better known as a comedian, noted for a striped shirt and pants that seem belted at his thighs. He joins the Grand Ole Opry in the 1940s, remaining a member until his murder in 1973
    Jun 19, 1915
    Actor Pat Buttram is born in Addison, Alabama. The comedic sidekick appears alongside Gene Autry in a string of western movies before carving out a role as Mr. Haney on TV's "Green Acres"
    Jun 23, 1915
    Zeb Turner is born in Lynchburg, Virginia. He earns hits with 1949's "Tennessee Boogie" and 1951's "Chew Tobacco Rag," and writes Eddy Arnold's "It's A Sin" and Elvis Presley's "That's When Your Heartaches Begin"
    Jul 1, 1915
    Blues musician Willie Dixon is born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Influential in R&B and rock, he plays bass on Chuck Berry's "Maybellene," ranked among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"



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