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    • Mar 14, 1978
    Singer/songwriter Hugh Moffatt records "The Gambler" at Nashville's LSI Studio. The song becomes a major hit for Kenny Rogers several months later
    Mar 16, 1978
    Songwriter Dallas Davidson is born in Atlanta. He fashions such successes as Luke Bryan's "That's My Kind Of Night," Blake Shelton's "Boys 'Round Here," Lady Antebellum's "Just A Kiss" and Trace Adkins' "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk"
    Apr 13, 1978
    "American Idol" contestant Chris Sligh is born in Greenville, South Carolina. A 2007 participant, he writes Rascal Flatts' 2009 hit "Here Comes Goodbye"
    Apr 15, 1978
    Singer/songwriter Chris Stapleton is born in Lexington, Kentucky. He is propelled to national attention after winning three CMA Awards following the 2016 release of his first solo album, "Traveller." Stapleton pens Luke Bryan's "Drink A Beer," George Strait's "Love's Gonna Make It Alright" and Thomas Rhett's "Crash And Burn"
    May 4, 1978
    Songwriter Luke Laird is born in Greenville, Pennsylvania. He fashions such hits as Little Big Town's "Pontoon," Luke Bryan's "Fast," Kenny Chesney's "American Kids," Miranda Lambert's "Baggage Claim" and Carrie Underwood's "Last Name"
    Jun 3, 1978
    "Back Street Affair" songwriter Billy Wallace dies
    Jun 8, 1978
    Singer/songwriter Sturgill Simpson is born in Jackson, Kentucky. Compared favorably to Waylon Jennings, he gains a Top 10 country album in 2014 with "Metamodern Sounds In Country Music" and a #1 album in 2016 with "A Sailor's Guide To Earth"
    Jun 12, 1978
    Johnny Bond dies of a heart attack at the St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. A movie sidekick to Gene Autry and Tex Ritter, as well as an artist and songwriter in his own right, he lands a spot in the Country Music Hall of Fame two decades later
    Jun 13, 1978
    Singer/songwriter Jason Michael Carroll is born in Houston, Texas. Raised in North Carolina, he debuts in 2006 with a growling, masculine vocal presence, applied to "Alyssa Lies" and "Livin' Our Love Song"
    Jun 19, 1978
    Mabel Wayne, hailed as America's first female songwriter, dies in Glen Cove, New York. Fifty years prior, she had a pop hit when Gene Austin covered "Ramona," which Billy Walker converted into a country hit in 1968



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