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Feb 13, 1945
Bill Monroe holds his first Columbia session, recording "Kentucky Waltz" and "Footprints In The Snow" at the Wrigley Building in Chicago. Chubby Wise plays fiddle, and David "Stringbean" Akeman sits in on banjo
Feb 15, 1945
Texas Ruby and Curly Fox record "Don't Let That Man Get You Down" in Chicago. The song is ranked among country's 500 greatest all-time singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
Feb 20, 1945
Curley Williams & His Georgia Peach Pickers hold their first recording session, for Columbia Records, in Chicago
May 24, 1945
Ernest Tubb records "I'll Step Aside" in Chicago
Aug 2, 1945
Roy Acuff records "Pins And Needles (In My Heart)" at radio station WBBM in Chicago. He also cuts the Fred Rose song "Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain," a future Willie Nelson hit; and "No One Will Ever Know," a future hit for Gene Watson
Aug 14, 1945
Ernest Tubb records "It's Been So Long Darling" in Chicago
Sep 2, 1945
Multi-instrumentalist Marty Grebb is born in Chicago. Noted for his work with Bonnie Raitt, Rosanne Cash and Chicago, he plays sax on Willie Nelson & Leon Russell's 1979 country hit "Heartbreak Hotel"
Nov 13, 1945
The Hoosier Hot Shots record "Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)" and "Sioux City Sue" in Chicago
Nov 21, 1945
Eddy Arnold records "I Couldn't Believe It Was True" at RCA's Chicago studios
Nov 26, 1945
Keyboard player/producer Michael Omartian is born in Evanston, Illinois. After working with the likes of Christopher Cross, Rod Stewart and Donna Summer, he moves to Nashville in 1993, playing on hits by Vince Gill, Lee Ann Womack and Shania Twain
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