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    • Mar 11, 1898
    Creole accordion player Amede Ardoin is born in L'Anse Rougeau, Louisiana. He joins fiddler Dennis McGee to record the Cajun "One Step Des Chameaux," ranked in a Country Music Foundation book among country's 500 greatest singles
    Sep 11, 1899
    Jimmie Davis is born in Beech Springs, Louisiana. The two-time governor of the Bayou State is best known for writing "You Are My Sunshine," which helps him gain entry into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1972
    Sep 7, 1900
    Cajun songwriter Amadie Breaux is born near Rayne, Louisiana. Breaux writes and records the first version of the classic "Jole Blon," made famous by Harry Choates
    Aug 4, 1901
    Trumpet player Louis Armstrong is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Recognized as one of jazz music's greatest figures, the raspy-voiced singer joins Jimmie Rodgers to record "Blue Yodel No. 9 (Standin' On The Corner)" in 1930
    Jan 8, 1902
    Elmo Lewis is born in Mangham, Louisiana. He becomes the father of country hitmaker Jerry Lee Lewis
    Mar 13, 1903
    Singer/songwriter Bill Nettles is born in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Reputedly the original author of Jimmie Davis' "Nobody's Darling But Mine," he gains his only hit in 1949 with "Hadacol Boogie"
    Aug 30, 1903
    Singer and steel guitarist Charles Mitchell is born in Louisiana. He nets a 1944 hit with "If It's Wrong To Love You"
    Dec 7, 1911
    Jazz and blues figure Louis Prima is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. A singer and trumpet player, he writes the standard "Sunday Kind Of Love," which becomes a country hit for Reba McEntire in 1988
    Mar 17, 1912
    Mary Ethel Herron is born in Crowville, Mississippi. At age 23, she gives birth to future piano man Jerry Lee Lewis
    Sep 21, 1912
    Ted Daffan is born in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. The singer/songwriter rises to fame in the 1940s with such songs as "Born To Lose" and "Worried Mind," making him one of the original inductees in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970
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