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    • Apr 25, 1918
    Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald is born in Newport News, Virginia. She appears in the Top 10 in an early version of the Billboard country chart in 1944 with her recording of "When My Sugar Walks Down The Street"
    May 15, 1918
    Eddy Arnold is born in Henderson, Tennessee. Originally touted as the Tennessee Plowboy in his solid country recordings, he shifts into string-laden recordings in the 1960s on his way to membership in the Country Music Hall of Fame
    May 17, 1918
    Fiddler Paul Warren is born in Lyles, Tennessee. He plays on numerous Kitty Wells hits, including "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," "Release Me" and "Paying For That Back Street Affair"
    Jun 24, 1918
    John Bailes is born in Kanawha County, West Virginia. Along with sibling Walter, he helps form the first successful version of The Bailes Brothers, a family duo that actually uses various combinations of four brothers from 1942 into the 1950s
    Jun 25, 1918
    Songwriter Sid Tepper is born in Brooklyn, New York. Among his future songs are Marty Robbins' "Stairway Of Love," Jim Reeves' "Young Hearts" and Johnny Bond's "Love Song In 32 Bars"
    Jul 17, 1918
    Red Sovine is born in Charleston, West Virginia. A Grand Ole Opry member beginning in 1954, his first hit comes with the Webb Pierce duet "Why Baby Why." He later records the trucker recitations "Phantom 309," "Giddyup Go" and "Teddy Bear"
    Jul 20, 1918
    Songwriter Cindy Walker is born in Mart, Texas. She lands a spot in the Country Music Hall of Fame by writing such hits as Eddy Arnold's "You Don't Know Me," Webb Pierce's "I Don't Care" and Jim Reeves' "Distant Drums"
    Aug 12, 1918
    Israel Brodsky is born in Brooklyn, New York. Operating professionally as Roy Bennett, he writes several country hits, including Marty Robbins' "Stairway Of Love," Jim Reeves' "Young Hearts" and Johnny Bond's "Love Song In 32 Bars"
    Aug 18, 1918
    Gilbert "Cisco" Houston is born in Wilmington, Delaware. He becomes a singing partner and co-conspirator of Woody Guthrie, the two writing "Cocaine Blues," a 1948 country hit for Roy Hogsed
    Aug 31, 1918
    Songwriter Sam Nichols is born in Eula, Texas. He writes Ernest Tubb's 1948 single "That Wild And Wicked Look In Your Eye" and Hank Snow's 1955 hit "Yellow Roses"



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