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    • May 14, 1936
    Pop star Bobby Darin is born in The Bronx. Straddling the line between rock & roll and traditional pop during the 1950s and '60s, he earns his lone country hit as an artist with 1958's "Splish Splash." He also writes "Dream Lover," a pop song remade for country music by Billy "Crash" Craddock in 1971
    May 16, 1936
    Songwriter Joe Rock is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The manager for the R&B act The Skyliners, he writes their hit "Since I Don't Have You," revamped for country music by Ronnie Milsap in 1991
    May 25, 1936
    Singer/songwriter Tom T. Hall is born in Olive Hill, Kentucky. Nicknamed "The Storyteller," he earns a string of plot-thick hits and writes titles such as "Harper Valley P.T.A." and "Little Bitty" en route to membership in the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame
    Jun 22, 1936
    Kris Kristofferson is born in Brownsville, Texas. He records the 1973 hit "Why Me," becomes a member of The Highwaymen, appears in numerous movies and writes such classics as "Help Me Make It Through The Night" and "For The Good Times," landing in the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Jul 24, 1936
    Songwriter Max D. Barnes is born in Hardscratch, Iowa. His credits include "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes," by George Jones; "Don't Take It Away," by Conway Twitty; "Look At Us," by Vince Gill; and "Chiseled In Stone," by Vern Gosdin
    Sep 7, 1936
    Rock & roll pioneer Buddy Holly is born in Lubbock, Texas. Cohorts Waylon Jennings, Sonny Curtis and Bob Montgomery go on to find success in country music, while Holly's "True Love Ways" becomes a country hit for Mickey Gilley in 1980
    Sep 17, 1936
    Songwriter Dewayne Blackwell is born in Corpus Christi, Texas. He pens Garth Brooks' "Friends In Low Places," T.G. Sheppard's "Make My Day" and David Frizzell's "I'm Gonna Hire A Wino To Decorate Our Home"
    Nov 5, 1936
    Songwriter/producer Billy Sherrill is born in Phil Campbell, Alabama. He writes "Stand By Your Man," "Almost Persuaded" and "The Most Beautiful Girl," among others, and produces such acts as George Jones, Johnny Paycheck and Marty Robbins, earning induction in the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Nov 11, 1936
    Pop songwriter Jack Keller is born in Brooklyn, New York. He earns country hits when Debby Boone covers "My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own" and Ernest Tubb records "Ev'rybody's Somebody's Fool"
    Nov 12, 1936
    Songwriter Mort Shuman is born in New York City. He writes several Elvis Presley hits, Dwight Yoakam's "Little Sister" and "Save The Last Dance For Me," which becomes a country hit three different times--for Buck Owens, for Emmylou Harris and for Dolly Parton



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