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    • Sep 14, 1923
    Photographer Hope Powell is born in Salisbury, North Carolina. She goes on to shoot the  cover images for albums by the likes of Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Conway Twitty and Tom T. Hall
    Sep 17, 1923
    Hank Williams is born in Mount Olive, Alabama. He becomes one of country music's most influential singer/songwriters, penning "I Saw The Light" and "Your Cheatin' Heart" among his classics before dying tragically at age 29. Williams is one of three inaugural inductees in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1961
    Sep 26, 1923
    Keyboard player Merrill Moore is born. He backs up Wanda Jackson, appearing on her pop hit "Fujiyama Mama"
    Oct 10, 1923
    Fiddler and banjo player Minnie "Susie" Ledford is born in Powell County, Kentucky. She joins sisters Lily May and Rosie Ledford in the all-female stringband The Coon Creek Girls when the group undergoes a lineup change in 1939
    Oct 11, 1923
    Piano player Shorty Long is born in Reading, Pennsylvania. He nabs one country hit, a 1948 recording of "Sweeter Than The Flowers"
    Oct 16, 1923
    Pop musician and songwriter Bert Kaempfert is born in Hamburg, Germany. The author of "Strangers In The Night," "Wooden Heart" and "Danke Schoen," he also pens "Spanish Eyes," a pop hit by Al Martino that appears on country charts in 1988 as a Willie Nelson duet with Julio Iglesias
    Oct 17, 1923
    Jazz guitarist Barney Kessel is born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He augments his career by playing sessions for the likes of The Beach Boys and Elvis Presley, his credits including "Return To Sender"
    Oct 30, 1923
    Singer/songwriter Lewis Pruitt is born in Atlanta, Georgia. He earns a trio of country hits from 1959-1961
    Nov 20, 1923
    Dobro player Robert "Tut" Taylor is born in Milledgeville, Georgia. He earns a Grammy as a co-producer of the album "The Great Dobro Sessions"
    Nov 21, 1923
    Hal Smith is born in Fairview, Alabama. A fiddler for Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb and others, he marries singer Velma Williams, of The Smoky Mountain Boys. He also joins Ray Price to found Pamper Music, a publishing company that provides a songwriting springboard for Willie Nelson, Harlan Howard and Hank Cochran



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