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Dec 1, 1947
Roy Rogers teams with the Sons Of The Pioneers to record "Blue Shadows On The Trail" and "(There'll Never Be Another) Pecos Bill" for the movie "Melody Time"
Dec 2, 1947
Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys record "Tennessee Waltz" in Chicago at RCA Studio A
Dec 2, 1947
Hank Snow begins what prove to be his final Canadian sessions before his career shifts into the U.S., at the Victor Studio in Montreal
Dec 5, 1947
Jim Messina is born in Maywood, California. He becomes a founding member of two major country-rock bands, Buffalo Springfield and Poco, and later joins Kenny Loggins in Loggins & Messina. Messina writes Lynn Anderson's "Listen To A Country Song"
Dec 7, 1947
Rex Allen records "Slap Her Down Again, Paw." The song becomes a hit the following year for comedic female singer Esmereldy
Dec 8, 1947
Al Dexter and his Troopers record "Rock And Rye Rag"
Dec 8, 1947
Gregg Allman, of The Allman Brothers Band, is born in Nashville. The southern-rock singer and keyboard player will write "Midnight Rider," remade as a 1980 country hit by Willie Nelson
Dec 9, 1947
Pop singer Kate Smith records her only country hit, "Foggy River," in an afternoon session at the WOR Studio in New York
Dec 10, 1947
Bud Hobbs and His Trail Herders record the Sheb Wooley-penned songs "Lazy Mary" and "I Heard About You" at Radio Recorders in Los Angeles
Dec 10, 1947
Nine years after he moved to Hollywood, former Grand Ole Opry star Lee "Lasses" White has his first leading role as a judge in the movie "Mystery Range." The picture also features Texas Jim Lewis
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