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Feb 28, 1927
Steel player Don Helms is born in New Brockton, Alabama. He becomes a member of The Original Drifting Cowboys during Hank Williams' days on The Louisiana Hayride. Helms rejoins the Cowboys in 1949, and remains until the group is disbanded in 1951
Mar 25, 1927
Musician/executive Joe Talbot is born in Nashville. A member of Hank Snow's Rainbow Ranch Boys from 1950-1954, he plays steel guitar on "(Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I," "The Golden Rocket" and "I'm Moving On," among others
Mar 31, 1927
Hoyt Hawkins, of The Jordanaires, is born in Paducah, Kentucky. The group performs as backing vocalists on a long list of hits by George Jones, Kenny Rogers and Elvis Presley, among others, entering the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001
May 19, 1927
Fiddler Merle Franklin "Red" Taylor is born in Saltillo, Mississippi. He joins Little Jimmy Dickens' band, playing on "A-Sleeping At The Foot Of The Bed" and "Hillbilly Fever," plus Bill Monroe's version of "Uncle Pen"
Jun 3, 1927
Saxophone player Boots Randolph is born in Paducah, Kentucky. He becomes a member of Nashville's A-Team of studio players in the 1960s, earning a minor pop hit with "Yakety Sax," and backing such performers as Brenda Lee and Elvis Presley
Jul 9, 1927
Trombone player Lew McCreary is born in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. In addition to work with Henry Mancini, The Monkees and Steely Dan, he also plays on a string of Glen Campbell hits, including "Galveston," "True Grit" and "Honey Come Back"
Jul 20, 1927
Bass player and guitarist Velma Williams Smith is born in Logan County, Kentucky. She appears with Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys and later becomes a session musician, playing on hits by Bobby Bare, Skeeter Davis and Eddy Arnold
Aug 25, 1927
Monty Matthews is born in Pulaski, Kentucky. He is a founding member of The Jordanaires, but leaves the quartet in 1952, just as it is becoming one of Nashville's primary studio background vocal groups
Oct 31, 1927
Anita Kerr is born in Memphis. She forms The Anita Kerr Singers, a background vocal group that plays a role in such hits as Skeeter Davis' "The End Of The World," Jim Reeves' "He'll Have To Go" and Bobby Bare's "Detroit City"
Jan 8, 1928
Luther Perkins is born in Tennessee. The guitarist plays an essential role in defining Johnny Cash's "boom-chicka-boom" rockabilly sound, beginning in 1955. Perkins is lauded in the title of Cash's Top 10 1959 single "Luther Played The Boogie"
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