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    • Dec 3, 1923
    Hubert Long is born in Poteet, Texas. He emerges among country music's most influential executives, working with the likes of Eddy Arnold, Webb Pierce and Faron Young on his way to membership in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970
    Dec 23, 1923
    Record producer Milton Okun is born in Brooklyn. He oversees John Denver's hits, including "Annie's Song," "Take Me Home, Country Roads" and "Back Home Again." Okun also produces The Starland Vocal Band's "Afternoon Delight"
    Dec 30, 1923
    Steel guitarist Joaquin Murphey is born in Los Angeles. He plays on records by a number of West Coast artists, including Merle Travis, Tex Williams, Spade Cooley and The Sons Of The Pioneers
    Jan 6, 1924
    Earl Scruggs is born in Shelby, North Carolina. The innovative banjo man joins Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys in the 1940s, then forms a duo with Lester Flatt on the way to the Country Music Hall of Fame as one of bluegrass' pillars
    Jan 11, 1924
    Blues singer and harmonica player James Moore is born in Lobdell, Louisiana. Recording under the name Slim Harpo, his "Rainin' In My Heart" is ranked in a Country Music Foundation book among country's 500 greatest singles
    Jan 20, 1924
    Songwriter Lee Pockriss is born in Brooklyn, New York. He writes "Catch A Falling Star," "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" and Faron Young's 1957 country hit "Love Has Finally Come My Way"
    Jan 25, 1924
    Steel guitar player Wesley "Speedy" West is born in Springfield, Missouri. He works with Spade Cooley and Hank Penny, records a series of instrumentals with Jimmy Bryant, and produces Loretta Lynn's first single, "Honky Tonk Girl"
    Jan 28, 1924
    Ramona Riggins is born in Raglesville, Indiana. She will marry Grandpa Jones, performing regularly with him in concert and on the syndicated TV show "Hee Haw"
    Feb 16, 1924
    Jo Walker-Meador is born in Orlinda, Tennessee. She serves as executive director of the Country Music Association from 1962-1991 and is inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1995
    Feb 27, 1924
    Tenor sax player Jesse Powell is born in Fort Worth, Texas. He works with Count Basie, Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie, and also finds success as a session player. He takes part in Bobby Darin's lone pop/country crossover hit, "Splish Splash"



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