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    • Aug 6, 1922
    Comedian Manuel "Old Joe" Clark is born in Erwin, Tennessee. He spends 50 years with the "Renfro Valley Barn Dance" in Kentucky, and works as a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in 1951
    Aug 16, 1922
    R&B piano player Ernie Freeman is born in Cleveland, Ohio. He scores one country hit during his career with his 1958 cover of the instrumental "Raunchy"
    Aug 23, 1922
    Guitarist Smiley Wilson is born in Etowah County, Alabama. He plays on The Louvin Brothers' 1958 hit "My Baby's Gone"
    Oct 7, 1922
    Hugh Cherry is born in Louisville, Kentucky. He becomes an influential air personality on country stations in Nashville and Los Angeles, emerging among the first six inductees in the Country Music Disc Jockey Hall of Fame in 1977
    Oct 27, 1922
    Cellist Byron Bach is born in Jackson, Kentucky. He becomes a popular session musician, appearing in the string section on such hits as Lynn Anderson's "Rose Garden," Tom T. Hall's "I Love" and Kris Kristofferson's "Why Me"
    Nov 19, 1922
    Songwriter Mario Rigual is born in Antilla, Cuba. He and his brother, Carlos Rigual, will co-write the Johnny Rodriguez country hit, "Love Me With All Your Heart (Cuando Calienta El Sol)"
    Dec 5, 1922
    Songwriter Don Robertson is born in Peking, China. His credits include: Hank Locklin's "Please Help Me I'm Falling," Hank Snow's "I Don't Hurt Anymore" and Eddy Arnold's "I Really Don't Want To Know"
    Dec 7, 1922
    Don Maddox is born in Boaz, Alabama. He joins the family group The Maddox Brothers & Rose, whose energetic and comedic road show makes the Most Colorful Hillbilly Band in America one of the genre's top touring acts during the 1940s and '50s
    Dec 8, 1922
    Appalachian folk singer, songwriter and dulcimer player Jean Ritchie is born in Viper, Kentucky. She influences The Judds on her way to the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame
    Dec 15, 1922
    Pioneering disc jockey Alan Freed is born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Destined for membership in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, he is credited as a co-writer on The McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely," covered for country in the 1980s by The Forester Sisters



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