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    • Nov 9, 1945
    Country bluesman Frank Hutchison dies. Among the first to record with a harmonica rack, he cut just 32 songs. One, "Stackalee," ranks among the 500 greatest country singles of all-time in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number"
    Nov 10, 1945
    Yvonne Vaughn is born in Mount Airy, North Carolina. Under the name Donna Fargo, she becomes a significant singer/songwriter during the 1970s, earning back-to-back million-sellers with "The Happiest Girl In The Whole U.S.A." and "Funny Face"
    Nov 12, 1945
    Rock artist Neil Young is born at Toronto General Hospital in Ontario. A solo performer and member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, he writes Linda Ronstadt's country hit "Love Is A Rose" and Waylon Jennings' "Are You Ready For The Country"
    Nov 20, 1945
    Filming wraps for "Night And Day," a Warner Bros. biopic on the life of songwriter Cole Porter, with Cary Grant taking the lead role. Porter had the lone country hit of his career earlier in the year, with Gene Autry's version of "Don't Fence Me In"
    Dec 4, 1945
    Singer/songwriter Gary P. Nunn is born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. A key figure in the rise of Texas country, he writes the Willie Nelson hit "Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning" and Rosanne Cash's "Couldn't Do Nothin' Right"
    Dec 21, 1945
    Danny Dill and Annie Lou Dill are married the year before they become a regular act on the Grand Ole Opry. He goes on to become a major songwriter, authoring such hits as "Detroit City" and "The Long Black Veil"
    Jan 16, 1946
    Woodwind player Timmy Tappan is born. A musical director for Bobby Goldsboro, he writes the Lee Greenwood country hit "Fool's Gold"
    Feb 7, 1946
    Singer/songwriter Sammy Johns is born in Charlotte, North Carolina. Best known for his pop hit "Chevy Van," he goes on to write "Common Man," by John Conlee; "America," by Waylon Jennings; and "Desperado Love," by Conway Twitty
    Apr 5, 1946
    Songwriter Vincent Youmans dies in a Denver, Colorado, sanitarium after a 12-year battle with tuberculosis. He wrote "Tea For Two," "I Want To Be Happy" and "Without A Song," a 1930 Paul Whiteman hit destined to be covered by Willie Nelson
    Apr 26, 1946
    "The Long Black Veil" songwriter Marijohn Wilkin has a son, John "Bucky" Wilkin, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He sings lead on the 1964 Ronny & The Daytonas pop hit "G.T.O." and plays on several Waylon Jennings singles



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