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May 26, 1933
Jimmie Rodgers, suffering from tuberculosis, dies of a massive hemorrhage at New York's Taft Hotel. Nicknamed the Singing Brakeman, he became country music's first superstar, and, in 1961, the first person inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame
Aug 15, 1933
Mandolin player Mike Seeger is born in New York. He becomes a founding member of the string band The New Lost City Ramblers. The group's version of "On Some Foggy Mountain Top" is used in the 2019 PBS series "Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns"
Sep 24, 1933
Drummer Mel Taylor is born in Brooklyn, New York. A member of the rock instrumental group The Ventures beginning in 1961, he also handles the sticks on a pair of Buck Owens hits, "My Heart Skips A Beat" and "Together Again"
Jan 2, 1934
The Callahan Brothers hold their first recording session, for the American Record Corporation, in New York City
Feb 16, 1934
Herbert and Harold Kalin are born in Port Jervis, New York. As The Kalin Twins, they hit the Top 10 on both the pop and country charts with their 1958 single "When"
Aug 12, 1934
Playwright Maxwell Anderson and his second wife, Mab, have a daughter, Hesper Anderson, in New York. He goes on to write "September Song," a pop standard that becomes a country hit in the hands of Willie Nelson
Oct 8, 1934
Baritone singer Doc Green is born in New York. In the 1950s, he becomes a member of the R&B group The Drifters, singing on "Save The Last Dance For Me," remade as a country hit by Buck Owens, Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton
Nov 21, 1934
Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald makes her stage debut at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. Ten years later, she appears on an early version of what will become the Billboard country charts with "When My Sugar Walks Down The Street"
Dec 12, 1934
Tex Ritter portrays Red Dog as "Mother Lode" opens at New York's Cort Theater. The show runs less than three weeks
Dec 29, 1934
"Mother Lode," a Broadway production featuring Tex Ritter, closes after just 17 days at the Cort Theater
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