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    • Jun 1, 1961
    Songwriter/producer Monty Powell is born in Resaca, Georgia. He oversees recordings by Diamond Rio and Chuck Wicks, and authors Keith Urban's "Days Go By," Collin Raye's "My Kind Of Girl" and Tim McGraw's "One Of These Days"
    Jul 4, 1961
    "Don't Fence Me In" songwriter Cole Porter ends an eight-month stay at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
    Jul 8, 1961
    Toby Keith is born in Clinton, Oklahoma. The former semi-pro football player emerges in 1993 with "Should've Been A Cowboy," becoming a brash hitmaker, label owner and entrepreneur. He also joins the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2024
    Aug 15, 1961
    Singer/songwriter Paul Jefferson is born in Woodside, California. After a brief solo career in the mid-1990s, he scores a hit as the writer of Aaron Tippin's "That's As Close As I'll Get To Loving You"
    Aug 27, 1961
    Jeffrey Steele is born in Burbank, California. He helps found the band Boy Howdy before piling up hits as a songwriter, including Keith Urban and Eric Church's "Raise 'Em Up," Rascal Flatts' "What Hurts The Most," Montgomery Gentry's "My Town" and Tim McGraw's "Meanwhile Back At Mama's," featuring Faith Hill
    Aug 31, 1961
    Songwriter/producer Wayne Kirkpatrick is born in Greenville, Mississippi. Raised in Louisiana, he authors Eric Clapton's "Change The World," Little Big Town's "Boondocks," The Wreckers' "My, Oh My" and Garth Brooks' "Wrapped Up In You"
    Sep 13, 1961
    Bobbie Cryner is born in Woodland, California. The smoky-voiced singer has a recording deal in the 1990s, but has her biggest success as the songwriter of Trisha Yearwood's single "Real Live Woman"
    Oct 7, 1961
    Songwriter Tommy Barnes is born. He creates Tim McGraw's first hit, "Indian Outlaw"
    Nov 3, 1961
    Hank Williams, music publisher Fred Rose and Jimmie Rodgers are the first inductees in the Country Music Hall Of Fame
    Nov 10, 1961
    Singer/songwriter Brian Henningsen is born at Jarman Hospital in Tuscola, Illinois. He forms The Henningsens with his children, Aaron and Clara Henningsen, earning a country hit in 2013 with "American Beautiful." They also co-write The Band Perry singles "You Lie" and "All Your Life"



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