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Mar 3, 1931
Folk artist Paul Clayton is born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He co-writes Billy Grammer's 1959 country hit "Gotta Travel On"
Mar 21, 1931
With Nazis frequently inciting riots at the public performance of his songs, Jewish songwriter Kurt Weill leaves Germany. He moves four years later to the U.S., where he writes "September Song," a 1979 country hit for Willie Nelson
Mar 27, 1931
R&B songwriter and Atlantic executive John Marascalco is born. He pens the Little Richard titles "Good Golly Miss Molly," "Rip It Up" and "Send Me Some Lovin'." The latter becomes a 1972 country hit for Hank Williams Jr. & Lois Johnson
Apr 5, 1931
Songwriter/producer "Cowboy" Jack Clement is born in Whitehaven, Tennessee. He writes hits for Bobby Bare and Jim Reeves; produces hits by Charley Pride, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis; and lands in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013
Apr 13, 1931
Songwriter Maurice Abrahams dies at his home on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Among his credits is "Ragtime Cowboy Joe," a song that appears in a number of western movies before becoming a 1947 country hit for pop singer Eddy Howard
Apr 21, 1931
Carl Belew is born in Salina, Oklahoma. He earns Top 10 hits as a recording artist with "Am I That Easy To Forget" and "Hello Out There," and writes Eddy Arnold's 1965 hit "What's He Doing In My World"
Apr 30, 1931
Peter La Farge is born in Fountain, Colorado. A Native American songwriter, he nets a country hit in 1964 when Johnny Cash records "The Ballad Of Ira Hayes"
May 1, 1931
Bill Anderson's bandleader, Jimmy Gately, is born in Springfield, Missouri. He writes Sonny James' "The Minute You're Gone," Webb Pierce's "Alla My Love" and Anderson's "Bright Lights And Country Music"
May 7, 1931
Songwriter Jerry Chesnut is born in Loyall, Kentucky. Among his credits: Travis Tritt's "T-R-O-U-B-L-E," Del Reeves' "Looking At The World Through A Windshield," Faron Young's "It's Four In The Morning" and George Jones' "A Good Year For The Roses"
May 16, 1931
Songwriter Bill Browning is born in Wayne County, West Virginia. Browning writes Jimmie Skinner's 1959 hit "Dark Hollow"
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