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Jun 3, 1949
Pete Seeger and Lee Hays perform "If I Had A Hammer" publicly for the first time at St. Nicholas in New York. A 1972 version of the song by Johnny Cash & June Carter will receive a Grammy nomination
Jul 2, 1949
Piano player Roy Bittan is born in Rockaway Beach, New York. A longtime member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, he backs Melissa Etheridge when she records "I Will Always Love You" for "Just Because I'm A Woman: Songs Of Dolly Parton"
Jul 2, 1949
"Saturday Night Jubilee" airs for the last time on NBC-TV. Boyd Heath, who earned a country hit in 1945 with his version of "Smoke On The Water," hosted the show from New York City
Aug 10, 1949
Gene Johnson is born in Jamestown, New York. He plays mandolin for Diamond Rio, a harmony-based sextet that wins multiple awards from the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music in the 1990s
Aug 25, 1949
Henry Paul is born in Kingston, New York. After stints with the Southern rock band The Outlaws and his own Henry Paul Band, he becomes the lead singer of BlackHawk, combining '70s rock influences with tight, three-part harmonies in numerous hook-filled 1990s hits
Aug 30, 1949
Gene Autry's latest western, "Rim Of The Canyon," opens in New York. The ghost town tale also includes an appearance by his longtime associate Frankie Marvin
Sep 4, 1949
"If I Had A Hammer" songwriter Pete Seeger's car is attacked by rioters during a Ku Klux Klan-led anti-Communist demonstration in Peekskill, New York. Seeger's wife and three-year-old son are injured by shattered glass
Sep 13, 1949
Eddy Arnold records "Take Me In Your Arms And Hold Me" and "Will Santy Come To Shanty Town" at the RCA Studios in New York
Sep 14, 1949
Eddy Arnold records "Mama And Daddy Broke My Heart" at New York's RCA Studios
Oct 7, 1949
Kieran Kane is born in Queens, New York. He has moderate commercial success as a solo artist in the early-1980s before joining with Jamie O'Hara to form The O'Kanes. In the 1990s, he co-founds Dead Reckoning Records, an artist-owned indie label
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