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    • May 27, 1921
    Redd Stewart is born in Ashland City, Tennessee. He replaces Eddy Arnold as the featured vocalist in Pee Wee King's Golden West Cowboys, writing the Patti Page classic "Tennessee Waltz" and Ernest Tubb's "Soldier's Last Letter"
    Jun 24, 1921
    Guitarist Jimmy Self is born in Childress, Texas. He plays on hit records by RCA acts Eddy Arnold, Don Gibson and Hank Locklin
    Jun 27, 1921
    Steel guitarist Red Murrell is born in Willow Springs, Missouri. He plays on several Hank Thompson singles, including "Whoa Sailor," "The Grass Looks Greener Over Yonder" and "Soft Lips," plus the Jack Guthrie single "Oklahoma Hills"
    Jul 15, 1921
    Pop musician and songwriter Erroll Garner is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is best known for writing "Misty," a classic that becomes a 1959 hit for Johnny Mathis and a 1975 country hit for Ray Stevens
    Jul 21, 1921
    Guitarist/songwriter Eddie Hill is born in Delano, Tennessee. He plays on numerous recordings by Kitty Wells, Johnnie & Jack and The Louvin Brothers; and writes hits for Jimmy Wakely and Johnny Horton
    Aug 3, 1921
    Lyricist Richard Adler is born in New York City. Best known for working on the musicals "The Pajama Game" and "Damn Yankees," he also authors "The Strange Little Girl," a 1951 country hit for Ernest Tubb and Red Foley
    Aug 8, 1921
    Webb Pierce is born in West Monroe, Louisiana. He gains a reputation for a nasal twang and garish stage persona, but becomes one of the biggest honky-tonk stars of the 1950s through such titles as "I Ain't Never," "In The Jailhouse Now" and "There Stands The Glass." He reaches the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001
    Aug 17, 1921
    Betty Cody is born in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Her sole Top 10 single comes with the 1953 release "I Found Out More Than You'll Ever Know," an answer record to The Davis Sisters' hit "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know"
    Sep 8, 1921
    Gospel songwriter Mosie Lister is born in Cochran, Georgia. He authors The Blackwood Brothers' "His Hand In Mine," ranked among country's all-time greatest hits in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Oct 4, 1921
    Fiddler J.R. "Jelly" Sanders is born in Duncan, Oklahoma. As a member of Buck Owens' Buckaroos, he performs on a long line of hits, including "Together Again," "Act Naturally," "I've Got A Tiger By The Tail" and--appropriately--"Second Fiddle"



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