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    • Dec 5, 1926
    WSM Radio, the home of the Grand Ole Opry, goes off the air through the end of the year to upgrade its signal, from 1,000 watts to 5,000
    Dec 10, 1926
    Euneta Paskel is born in Cookeville, Tennessee. As an adult, she marries Bashful Brother Oswald, a member of Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys
    Dec 11, 1926
    Blues singer Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton is born in Montgomery, Alabama. She scores an R&B hit with "Hound Dog," which later becomes a massive pop and country hit for Elvis Presley
    Dec 20, 1926
    Ola Smith is born in Benson, Arizona. She is destined to marry Paul Westmoreland, the writer of the Spade Cooley hit "Detour." She also performs regularly in her husband's Sacramento nightclub, the Detour In
    Dec 21, 1926
    Freddie Hart is born in Lochapoka, Alabama. A songwriter who pens hits for Porter Wagoner, Carl Smith and George Jones, he earns his largest acclaim as an artist with "Easy Loving," the Country Music Association's Song of the Year in 1971 and '72
    Dec 23, 1926
    Pop singer Harold Dorman is born in Drew, Mississippi. He has a hit in 1960 with the self-penned "Mountain Of Love," remade in 1964 by Johnny Rivers. It's a hit in 1982 for Charley Pride, who also sings Dorman's "Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town"
    Dec 25, 1926
    Vaudevillian Kenny Trietsch and his wife, Ruth, have a daughter, Gloria Joan Trietsch. Within seven years, he becomes a member of the comedic country quartet, The Hoosier Hot Shots
    Dec 28, 1926
    The musical "Betsy" opens at New York's' New Amsterdam Theatre. The Broadway production introduces the Irving Berlin song "Blue Skies," which becomes a country hit more than 50 years later in the hands of Willie Nelson
    Dec 29, 1926
    A front-page story in Variety magazine titled "Hill-Billy Music" thumbs its nose at fans of the burgeoning country genre. The piece portrays the audience as "poor white trash" who are "illiterate and ignorant, with the intelligence of morons"
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