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    • Aug 21, 1947
    Stanley Osborne is born in Norfolk, Virginia. His children will include Josh Osborne, the songwriter behind "Drinkin' Problem," "Body Like A Back Road" and "Sangria"
    Aug 23, 1947
    Rex Allen Jr. is born in Chicago, Illinois. The son of silver-screen cowboy Rex Allen, he nets a half-dozen middle-of-the-road country hits in the late-1970s, topped by "Two Less Lonely People"
    Aug 27, 1947
    James Wood is born in West Plains, Missouri, the first son of future Grand Ole Opry star Jan Howard
    Aug 27, 1947
    Actress Barbara Bach is born in Queens, New York. During filming of the 1981 movie "Caveman," she falls in love with former Beatle Ringo Starr, whom she marries. Starr will earn a Grammy nomination in 1990 in the country field
    Sep 3, 1947
    Jim Reeves marries Mary White at a Methodist Church in Carthage, Texas
    Nov 15, 1947
    Barbara and Louise Mandrell's mother, Mary Ellen McGill, quits school at age 16 to marry Irby Mandrell
    Dec 31, 1947
    Roy Rogers marries Dale Evans at the Flying L Ranch in Murray County, Oklahoma. Rogers is late for the ceremony, delayed when he puts out a fire started by a cigarette butt in another room
    Jan 13, 1948
    Buck Owens marries background vocalist Bonnie Campbell--four months pregnant with their son, Buddy Alan--in Phoenix
    Jan 18, 1948
    Grandpa Jones and his wife, Ramona, have their first child, Eloise Jones. The Grand Ole Opry comic already had another daughter with his first wife, Eulalia
    Mar 22, 1948
    Nat "King" Cole divorces his first wife, Nadine, who co-wrote "I Can't See For Lookin'." The song appeared four years earlier on Billboard's folk chart, an early version of its country hit list



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