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    • Apr 29, 1958
    John D. Loudermilk plays a Kentucky Derby Festival show at Louisville's Freedom Hall that features Ray Price, George Morgan, Gene Sullivan and Jerry Vale. When he bombs, Loudermilk decides to give up performing and focus on songwriting. His successes will include "Abilene," "Waterloo" and "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye"
    May 20, 1958
    Guitarist Jane Wiedlin is born in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. She joins the 1980s pop band The Go-Go's and later co-writes Keith Urban's "But For The Grace Of God" with Urban and fellow Go-Go Charlotte Caffey
    May 20, 1958
    Don Gibson joins the Grand Ole Opry
    Jun 3, 1958
    Songwriter Georges Boulanger dies in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His song "My Prayer" was a 1956 pop hit for The Platters and will become a Top 15 country single for Narvel Felts in 1976
    Jun 11, 1958
    "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle" songwriter Ted Harris moves from Lakeland, Florida, to Nashville
    Jun 22, 1958
    Dallas and Sharon Frazier are married. The groom is destined to write such love songs as "There Goes My Everything," "If My Heart Had Windows" and "All I Have To Offer You (Is Me)"
    Aug 5, 1958
    Songwriter Tim Nichols is born in Portsmouth, Virginia. Among his credits: Keith Whitley's "I'm Over You," Chris Young's "The Man I Want To Be," Dustin Lynch's "Cowboys And Angels" and Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying"
    Sep 16, 1958
    Terry McBride is born in Taylor, Texas. He becomes the lead singer of McBride & The Ride, which has a series of hits from 1991-1993. As a songwriter, he pens the Brooks & Dunn singles "I Am That Man," "Cowgirls Don't Cry" and "Play Something Country"
    Oct 7, 1958
    Singer/songwriter Rex Griffin dies in a New Orleans hospital. Though he recorded for Decca in the late-1930s, he's best remembered for writing Eddy Arnold's "Just Call Me Lonesome" and Hank Penny's "Won't You Ride In My Little Red Wagon"
    Oct 20, 1958
    Ray Price's "City Lights" becomes the first song written by Bill Anderson to hit #1 on the Billboard country singles chart



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