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    • Oct 4, 1940
    Singing cowboy Ray Whitley delivers a handful of songs he co-wrote with Fred Rose in the B-western "Wagon Train"
    Oct 7, 1940
    Clarinet player Artie Shaw records the pop hit "Star Dust" in Hollywood. Thirty-eight years later, it becomes the title track for a classic Willie Nelson album featuring remakes of traditional pop standards
    Oct 7, 1940
    Monogram Pictures releases the western "Trailing Double Trouble," with Johnny Bond and Jimmy Wakely appearing on the soundtrack
    Oct 7, 1940
    Bill Monroe has his first recording session with the Blue Grass Boys, at the Kimball Hotel in Atlanta, for RCA Records. Among the day's tracks: "Mule Skinner Blues"
    Oct 9, 1940
    Steel guitarist Jerry Byrd appears on his first recording session, as one-half of the duo The Happy Valley Boys, at the Kimball Hotel in Atlanta. He eventually plays on hits by Eddy Arnold, Red Foley and Hank Williams
    Oct 9, 1940
    John Lennon is born at Oxford Street Maternity Hospital in Liverpool, England. Several Beatles songs will be remade as country hits, including "Something," "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party" and "I Feel Fine"
    Oct 10, 1940
    The Red Barry western "Frontier Vengeance" debuts in movie theaters. Cindy Walker appears in the picture as a singing cowgirl
    Oct 11, 1940
    Louise Massey & The Westerners record "Beer And Skittles" in Chicago
    Oct 12, 1940
    Actor Tom Mix dies in Florence, Arizona. A western star in the earliest days of the film industry, he's mentioned in The Statler Brothers' 1977 country hit "The Movies"
    Oct 21, 1940
    R&B singer/songwriter Jimmy Beaumont is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A member of the doo-wop era vocal group The Skyliners, he co-writes "Since I Don't Have You," which Ronnie Milsap remakes as a country hit in 1991
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