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Oct 22, 1931
Curly Chalker is born in Enterprise, Alabama. He plays steel guitar on such hits as Lefty Frizzell's "Always Late (With Your Kisses)," Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side Of Life," Ray Price's "For The Good Times" and Marie Osmond's "Paper Roses"
Nov 8, 1931
Record producer Harold Shedd is born in Bremen, Alabama. Among his credits: Alabama's "Mountain Music," K.T. Oslin's "80's Ladies" and Glen Campbell's "A Lady Like You." Plus, he signs Billy Ray Cyrus, The Kentucky HeadHunters and Shania Twain to Mercury
Jan 31, 1932
Producer Rick Hall is born in Franklin County, Alabama. Owner of the FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, he oversees hits by The Osmonds, Paul Anka, Mac Davis, Shenandoah, Jerry Reed and Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers Band
Jul 4, 1932
Marion Worth is born in Birmingham, Alabama. She becomes a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1963 after accruing a pair of Top 10 hits in 1960: "That's My Kind Of Love" and "I Think I Know"
Jul 21, 1932
Jimmie Rodgers wires fiddler Clayton McMichen from Gadsden, Alabama, asking the former Skillet Licker to record with him. McMichen obliges, injecting morphine into Rodgers' veins during the sessions to quell the pain of tuberculosis
Nov 13, 1932
Publisher/record producer/bass player Buddy Killen is born in Lexington, Alabama. He owns Tree Publishing; produces hits for Exile, Ronnie McDowell and T.G. Sheppard; plays bass on George Jones' "White Lightning"; and writes "Watchin' Girls Go By" and "I May Never Get To Heaven"
Jul 4, 1933
Songwriter Baker Knight is born in Birmingham, Alabama. Among his credits: Rick Nelson's "Lonesome Town," Elvis Presley's "The Wonder Of You," Dave Dudley's "Cowboy Boots" and Mickey Gilley's "Don't The Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time"
Jan 9, 1934
Steel guitarist Jimmy Day is born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He works with the likes of Webb Pierce, Hank Williams and Willie Nelson, playing on Ray Price's "City Lights," The Everly Brothers' "Bye Bye Love" and George Jones' "The Race Is On"
Feb 5, 1934
Hank Aaron is born in Mobile, Alabama. A member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, he's namechecked in Tim McGraw's 2009 hit "Southern Voice"
Aug 5, 1934
Vern Gosdin is born in Woodland, Alabama. Nicknamed "The Voice," his quivering, emotional delivery makes him one of country's most respected traditional vocalists of the 1980s and '90s behind such hits as "Set 'Em Up Joe," "Chiseled In Stone" and "Way Down Deep"
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