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    • Nov 10, 1947
    Songwriter Allee Willis is born. She authors pop hits by Pet Shop Boys, The Pointer Sisters and Earth, Wind & Fire, as well as Crystal Gayle's country hit "The Blue Side"
    Nov 13, 1947
    Southern rock guitarist Toy Caldwell is born in Spartanburg, South Carolina. As a member of The Marshall Tucker Band, he writes "Can't You See," a country hit in 1976 for Waylon Jennings
    Nov 13, 1947
    J.C. Crowley is born in Houston, Texas. A member of the pop group Player, best known for its 1977 hit "Baby Come Back," he builds a short solo career in country music, gaining a minor hit in 1988 with "Paint The Town And Hang The Moon Tonight"
    Dec 5, 1947
    Jim Messina is born in Maywood, California. He becomes a founding member of two major country-rock bands, Buffalo Springfield and Poco, and later joins Kenny Loggins in Loggins & Messina. Messina writes Lynn Anderson's "Listen To A Country Song"
    Dec 26, 1947
    The Broadway musical "The Cradle Will Rock" opens at New York's Mansfield Theatre. The union-themed revival's cast includes Cisco Houston, who co-writes the Roy Hogsed country hit "Cocaine Blues" with Woody Guthrie
    Dec 30, 1947
    Jeff Lynne is born in Birmingham, England. The leader of the pop group the Electric Light Orchestra, he makes an appearance on the country chart in 1989 as the producer and co-writer of Roy Orbison's "You Got It"
    Jan 2, 1948
    Songwriter Mark Fisher dies in Long Lake, Illinois. He wrote the pop standard "Oh, How I Miss You Tonight," which will become a 1979 country hit as a duet that matches Deborah Allen with the late Jim Reeves
    Jan 7, 1948
    Singer/songwriter Marshall Chapman is born in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Playing in Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band during part of her career, she writes the Sawyer Brown hit "Betty's Bein' Bad"
    Jan 7, 1948
    Kenny Loggins is born in Everett, Washington. A cousin of songwriter Dave Loggins, Kenny records with country music's Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and writes Anne Murray's country hits "Danny's Song" and "Love Song"
    Jan 15, 1948
    Jack Guthrie dies from tuberculosis in Los Angeles. The yodeling cousin of Woody Guthrie was best known for his 1945 recording of "Oklahoma Hills"



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