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    • Dec 25, 1916
    Three-year-old Wade Ray receives a "cigar-box" fiddle for Christmas in Arkansas, setting him on a career path as a musician. He works with such artists as Ernest Tubb, Roy Rogers, Ray Price, Rex Allen and Tennessee Ernie Ford
    Dec 24, 1931
    Hank Snow brings his mother two rabbits for Christmas. His mother's husband threatens to kill Snow if he's still in the house by dinner time on Christmas Day
    Nov 27, 1937
    Gene Autry appears in the Santa Claus Lane Parade in Los Angeles along with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy
    Dec 25, 1937
    With his mother unable to scrape together enough money to bring him home for the holiday, seven-year-old Ray Charles is forced to spend his first Christmas at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine alone
    Oct 28, 1938
    The Hoosier Hot Shots cut a Christmas hit, "The Man With The Whiskers," in Chicago
    Nov 24, 1939
    Gene Autry is the grand marshal of the Santa Claus Lane parade in Hollywood. Watched by 300,000 people, the procession also features Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour and Kris Kringle, who rides in a $20,000 sleigh
    Nov 22, 1940
    Roy Rogers serves as grand marshal of the Santa Claus Lane parade in Hollywood
    Dec 25, 1941
    Bing Crosby sings "White Christmas" on his radio show, giving the Irving Berlin song its first public performance. Some eight years later, an Ernest Tubb version becomes a country hit
    May 29, 1942
    Bing Crosby records the Irving Berlin song "White Christmas" for the movie "Holiday Inn" during a morning session in Hollywood. Ernest Tubb resurrects the song as a country holiday hit seven years later
    Aug 4, 1942
    The movie "Holiday Inn," starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, premieres in New York City. The film introduces Irving Berlin's "White Christmas," destined to become a country hit for Ernest Tubb in 1949



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