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    • Sep 4, 1952
    The R&B group Gladys Knight & The Pips is formed in Atlanta, Georgia. Noted for such hits as "Midnight Train To Georgia" and "You're The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me," Knight earns a Country Music Association nomination in 1994
    Sep 17, 1952
    Steve Sanders is born in Richland, Georgia. In 1987, he replaces William Lee Golden in The Oak Ridge Boys, taking the soulful lead on such singles as "Gonna Take A Lot Of River" and "Beyond Those Years" prior to Golden's return in 1995
    Nov 21, 1952
    Tawnee Hall, a guitarist for Lefty Frizzell, dies at age 25 in Eastman, Georgia
    Jan 27, 1953
    Songwriter Tom Douglas is born in Atlanta, Georgia. He authors such hits as Lady Antebellum's "I Run To You," Chris Janson's "Drunk Girl," Keith Urban and Eric Church's "Raise 'Em Up" and Miranda Lambert's "The House That Built Me"
    May 7, 1953
    Songwriter John Jarrard is born in Gainesville, Georgia. He authors such hits as George Strait's "Blue Clear Sky," John Anderson's "Money In The Bank," Diamond Rio's "Mirror Mirror" and Collin Raye's "My Kind Of Girl"
    May 23, 1953
    Ruben Tarpley, the father of eight-year-old Brenda Lee, dies from a freak accident, after being hit on the head by a hammer during a construction project in Georgia
    Aug 21, 1954
    Guitarist Nick Kane is born in Jerusalem, Georgia. In 1994, he joins The Mavericks, whose accomplished mix of country, rock, pop and Latin sounds makes it a critically acclaimed--and commercially under-appreciated--force in the 1990s
    Aug 27, 1954
    After nearly two years of working for free on Atlanta's WAGA-TV, Brenda Tarpley debuts on "Peach Blossom Special," a weekly show on WRDW-TV in Augusta, Georgia. It marks her beginning as a professional, and the first time she uses the name Brenda Lee
    Oct 30, 1954
    T. Graham Brown is born in Atlanta, Georgia. Infusing country with a blue-eyed soul style, Brown finds favor in the late-1980s with such hits as "Don't Go To Strangers," "Darlene" and "Hell And High Water"
    Nov 17, 1954
    The city of Atlanta observes Faron Young Day
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