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    • Mar 30, 1988
    Jordan Davis is born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He earns hits with his first four country singles--"Singles You Up," "Take It From Me," "Slow Dance In A Parking Lot" and "Almost Maybes"-- beginning in 2017
    Apr 9, 1988
    R&B singer Brook Benton dies of pneumonia at New York's Mary Immaculate Hospital. Several of Benton's songs were remade in country, including Hank Williams Jr.'s "Rainy Night In Georgia," Sonny James' "Endlessly" and Randy Travis' "It's Just A Matter Of Time"
    Apr 18, 1988
    R&B songwriters Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland are inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York. Noted for dozens of Motown hits, their song "You Can't Hurry Love" gets covered by The Dixie Chicks for "Runaway Bride"
    Apr 27, 1988
    Songwriter Justin Ebach is born. He pens Brett Young's "Here Tonight," Dustin Lynch's "Good Girl" and Jordan Davis' "Singles You Up"
    Apr 29, 1988
    Singer/songwriter Michael Ray is born in Eustis, Florida. After winning the 2012 music competition "The Next," he signs with Atlantic, launching a series of hits with his 2015 debut "Kiss You In The Morning." He also co-writes the Big & Rich single "Run Away With You." Ray is briefly married to fellow country star Carly Pearce in 2019 and 2020
    May 1, 1988
    Songwriter Claude DeMetrius dies in New York City. He wrote Elvis Presley's "Hard Headed Woman" and "I Was The One," plus Marvin Rainwater's "Nothin' Needs Nothin' (Like I Need You)"
    May 11, 1988
    Willie Nelson sings "Blue Skies" at Carnegie Hall in New York as CBS shoots "Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration." The cast includes Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Natalie Cole, Tony Bennett and Rosemary Clooney. Berlin doesn't attend
    Aug 24, 1988
    Nat Stuckey dies of lung cancer in Nashville. The singer had only moderate success as an artist in the 1960s and '70s, but wrote Jim Ed Brown's "Pop A Top" and Buck Owens' "Waitin' In Your Welfare Line"
    Sep 6, 1988
    Singer/songwriter Autry Inman dies at Nashville's Vanderbilt Medical Center. As a recording artist, he had hits with 1953's "That's All Right" and 1968's "Ballad Of Two Brothers." He also wrote The Louvin Brothers' "I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby" and Carl Smith's "Mr. Moon"
    Sep 14, 1988
    Pop singer/songwriter Priscilla Renea is born in Vero Beach, Florida. She writes material for the likes of Demi Lovato, Nick Jonas and Marian Carey, and co-writes the Miranda Lambert duet with Carrie Underwood, "Somethin' Bad"



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