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    • Jun 16, 1936
    "Blue Skies" songwriter Irving Berlin and his wife, Ellin, welcome a daughter, Elizabeth Irving Berlin, in New York City
    Jun 22, 1936
    Kris Kristofferson is born in Brownsville, Texas. He records the 1973 hit "Why Me," becomes a member of The Highwaymen, appears in numerous movies and writes such classics as "Help Me Make It Through The Night" and "For The Good Times," landing in the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Jul 24, 1936
    Songwriter Max D. Barnes is born in Hardscratch, Iowa. His credits include "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes," by George Jones; "Don't Take It Away," by Conway Twitty; "Look At Us," by Vince Gill; and "Chiseled In Stone," by Vern Gosdin
    Sep 7, 1936
    Rock & roll pioneer Buddy Holly is born in Lubbock, Texas. Cohorts Waylon Jennings, Sonny Curtis and Bob Montgomery go on to find success in country music, while Holly's "True Love Ways" becomes a country hit for Mickey Gilley in 1980
    Sep 17, 1936
    Songwriter Dewayne Blackwell is born in Corpus Christi, Texas. He pens Garth Brooks' "Friends In Low Places," T.G. Sheppard's "Make My Day" and David Frizzell's "I'm Gonna Hire A Wino To Decorate Our Home"
    Nov 5, 1936
    Songwriter/producer Billy Sherrill is born in Phil Campbell, Alabama. He writes "Stand By Your Man," "Almost Persuaded" and "The Most Beautiful Girl," among others, and produces such acts as George Jones, Johnny Paycheck and Marty Robbins, earning induction in the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Nov 11, 1936
    Pop songwriter Jack Keller is born in Brooklyn, New York. He earns country hits when Debby Boone covers "My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own" and Ernest Tubb records "Ev'rybody's Somebody's Fool"
    Nov 12, 1936
    Songwriter Mort Shuman is born in New York City. He writes several Elvis Presley hits, Dwight Yoakam's "Little Sister" and "Save The Last Dance For Me," which becomes a country hit three different times--for Buck Owens, for Emmylou Harris and for Dolly Parton
    Jan 4, 1937
    Songwriter Lorene Mann is born in Huntland, Tennessee. She authors Rex Allen's "Don't Go Near The Indians" and Kitty Wells' "Left To Right"
    Mar 20, 1937
    Jerry Reed is born in Atlanta. A rhythmic guitarist, he earns a Grammy for "When You're Hot, You're Hot" and a million-seller with "Amos Moses." Reed writes Johnny Cash's "A Thing Called Love" and Elvis Presley's "Guitar Man," and plays on hits by Bobby Bare and Waylon Jennings. He joins the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2017



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