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    • Jan 21, 1916
    Bass player Ed Duncan is born in Texas. He plays on several sessions at the Jim Beck Studios in Dallas for Marty Robbins and Lefty Frizzell
    Feb 6, 1916
    Record executive Irving Green is born in Brooklyn, New York. In Chicago during 1944, he founds Mercury Records, a label associated with such acts as Patti Page, Shania Twain, Toby Keith, The Statler Brothers and Sammy Kershaw
    Feb 6, 1916
    Mandolin player Esther "Violet" Koehler is born in Wilton, Wisconsin. As an adult, she joins the Ledford sisters in The Coon Creek Girls, the first all-female stringband
    Feb 14, 1916
    Guitarist Jimmie Short is born in Ardmore, Oklahoma. He plays on more than a dozen Ernest Tubb hits, including "Blue Eyed Elaine," "Rainbow At Midnight," Drivin' Nails In My Coffin" and "Careless Darlin'"
    Feb 26, 1916
    Actor, comedian and dance band leader Jackie Gleason is born in Brooklyn, New York. Immortalized for his role in the 1950s TV series "The Honeymooners," he writes Jimmy Dean's 1962 country hit "To A Sleeping Beauty"
    Mar 26, 1916
    Songwriter Ed Nelson Jr. is born in The Bronx, New York. He authors several Eddy Arnold hits, including "I'm Throwing Rice (At The Girl That I Love)," "One Kiss Too Many" and "Will Santa Come To Shanty Town." He joins the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1973
    Apr 8, 1916
    Fiddler Carl Cotner is born in Lake Cicott, Indiana. He's one of two fiddlers who appears on Gene Autry's 1941 hit "You Are My Sunshine"
    Apr 10, 1916
    Vernon Presley is born in Fulton, Mississippi. He becomes the father of Elvis Presley
    Apr 12, 1916
    Songwriter Ernie Lee is born in Berea, Kentucky. He authors Pee Wee King's 1949 country hit "Tennessee Tears"
    Apr 24, 1916
    Texas Playboy guitarist Eldon Shamblin is born in Weatherford, Oklahoma. Handling the arrangements for Bob Wills' band from 1938-1954, he plays on "San Antonio Rose," "Ida Red" and "Take Me Back To Tulsa," among others



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