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    • Apr 14, 1954
    Singer/songwriter Pierce Pettis is born in DeKalb County, Alabama. He writes Garth Brooks' "You Move Me"
    Apr 25, 1954
    Singer/songwriter Rob Crosby is born in Sumter, South Carolina. He writes Lee Greenwood's "Holdin' A Good Hand," Martina McBride's "Concrete Angel" and Eric Paslay's "Friday Night," and has two hits in 1991 as an artist: "She's A Natural" and "Love Will Bring Her Around"
    Apr 29, 1954
    Karen Brooks is born in Dallas. Voted the Academy of Country Music's Top New Female Vocalist in 1983, she scores a #1 hit with T.G. Sheppard on "Faking Love," and writes Emmylou Harris' "Tennessee Rose"
    May 1, 1954
    Singer/songwriter Don King is born in Omaha, Nebraska. His writing credits include Janie Fricke's "You Don't Know Love" and Reba McEntire's "Why Do We Want (What We Know We Can't Have)"
    May 20, 1954
    Linda Porter, the wife of "Don't Fence Me In" songwriter Cole Porter, dies in their apartment at the Waldorf Towers in New York
    Jun 3, 1954
    Singer/songwriter Dan Hill is born in Toronto. His pop single "Sometimes When We Touch" is remade by Mark Gray & Tammy Wynette, and he writes the Mark Wills hits "I Do (Cherish You)" and "She's In Love," plus Sammy Kershaw's "Love Of My Life"
    Jun 6, 1954
    Playwright Maxwell Anderson marries his third wife, Gilda Hazard. He is a co-writer of "September Song," destined to become a country hit for Willie Nelson 25 years later
    Jul 10, 1954
    Songwriter/producer Robert Byrne is born in Detroit, Michigan. Among his credits: Earl Thomas Conley's "What I'd Say," Shenandoah's "Two Dozen Roses," Ronnie Milsap's "How Do I Turn You On" and The Forester Sisters' "Men"
    Jul 26, 1954
    Songwriter Mary Beth Anderson is born in Nyack, New York. She writes Gary Stewart's 1976 hit "Your Place Or Mine"
    Aug 25, 1954
    Singer/songwriter Elvis Costello is born in London, England. With a career that ranges across multiple genres, he's recognized as an influence in the lyrics of Eric Church's 2015 country hit "Mr. Misunderstood"



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