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    • Dec 1, 1957
    Singer/songwriter Kim Richey is born in Zanesville, Ohio. Her credits include Radney Foster's "Nobody Wins" and Trisha Yearwood's "Believe Me Baby (I Lied)"
    Dec 26, 1957
    Jimmie Osborne commits suicide with a .32-caliber pistol following a spat with his wife at his trailer home in Louisville, Kentucky. The singer/songwriter had three hits, the biggest coming with a topical single, "The Death Of Little Kathy Fiscus"
    Jan 3, 1958
    Lyricist Richard Adler marries actress Sally Ann Howes, known for her work on Broadway in "My Fair Lady." Seven years earlier, Adler had a country hit as a songwriter with Ernest Tubb and Red Foley's version of "The Strange Little Girl"
    Jan 14, 1958
    "Don't Fence Me In" songwriter Cole Porter enters New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital with an infection in his leg bones
    Jan 19, 1958
    Stephanie Davis is born in Bridger, Montana. She co-writes the Garth Brooks hits "We Shall Be Free" and "Learning To Live Again"
    Feb 1, 1958
    "Over The Rainbow" songwriter Harold Arlen and his wife, Anya, have a son, Samuel Arlen. "Over The Rainbow" is destined to become a country hit for Jerry Lee Lewis in 1980, and a concert favorite for Trisha Yearwood and Martina McBride
    Feb 21, 1958
    Mary Chapin Carpenter is born in Princeton, New Jersey. Her folk-tinged brand of country makes her one of the most thoughtful artists of the 1990s while she garners hits with "Down At The Twist & Shout," "I Feel Lucky" and "Shut Up And Kiss Me"
    Mar 28, 1958
    W.C. Handy dies in New York City. Acknowledged as the Father of the Blues, he's mentioned in the lyrics of the Lonestar country hit "Walking In Memphis." Handy is inducted in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983
    Apr 3, 1958
    "Don't Fence Me In" songwriter Cole Porter has his right leg amputated mid-thigh at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York. Porter never writes a song again
    Apr 3, 1958
    Bass player and songwriter Carl Goff Jr. is born. A member of Toby Keith's road band, he co-writes Keith's hits "Upstairs Downtown" and "You Ain't Much Fun"



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