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    • Aug 26, 1949
    Merry Christmas, a few months early: Ernest Tubb records "White Christmas" and "Blue Christmas" in an afternoon session at the Castle Studio in Nashville. It marks the first Tubb session for guitarist Billy Byrd, an essential Texas Troubadour
    Sep 13, 1949
    Eddy Arnold records "Take Me In Your Arms And Hold Me" and "Will Santy Come To Shanty Town" at the RCA Studios in New York
    Oct 10, 1949
    Decca releases Ernest Tubb's double-sided holiday single, "Blue Christmas" backed with "White Christmas"
    Nov 23, 1949
    Gene Autry makes his annual appearance in Hollywood's Santa Claus Lane parade, along with Bob Hope, Hopalong Cassidy and Fibber McGee & Molly
    Dec 25, 1949
    With "Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer" enjoying its first year as a holiday hit, composer Johnny Marks takes a bow from the audience on a Christmas edition of the Ed Sullivan-hosted CBS variety show "Toast Of The Town"
    Dec 25, 1949
    Future Country Music Hall of Famer Charlie McCoy receives a guitar for Christmas
    Jun 12, 1950
    Gene Autry records "Frosty The Snow Man" at Radio Recorders in Los Angeles
    Sep 11, 1950
    Columbia releases Gene Autry's "Frosty The Snow Man"
    Dec 25, 1950
    Reggie Young receives his first guitar for Christmas in Memphis. He goes on to become a session musician, playing on such hits as Willie Nelson's "Always On My Mind," Elvis Presley's "Suspicious Minds" and George Strait's "Ace In The Hole"
    Dec 25, 1951
    Merle Haggard spends Christmas in the Bakersfield Juvenile Hall for truancy. His mother shows up during the day with a holiday gift: a Martin guitar. Haggard runs away during the early part of 1952, and ends up in a reformatory in Whittier, California



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