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    • Feb 2, 1938
    Songwriter Gene MacLellan is born in Val-d'Or, Quebec. He authors the pop hit "Put Your Hand In The Hand" and Anne Murray's "Snowbird"
    Feb 2, 1938
    Ray Whitley has a minor role as a frontier outlaw with the debut of "Where The West Begins" in movie theaters
    Feb 2, 1938
    Rusty Kershaw is born in Tiel Ridge, Louisiana. He joins brother Doug Kershaw to create the Cajun act Rusty & Doug, which registers four country hits from 1955-1961, including "Louisiana Man" and "Diggy Diggy Lo"
    Feb 3, 1938
    Cole Porter is admitted to New York's Doctors Hospital, where he has a second round of surgery on his legs, which were crushed in a horse-riding accident four months earlier. Porter's country credits later include Gene Autry's "Don't Fence Me In"
    Feb 5, 1938
    Roy Acuff makes his Grand Ole Opry debut at the Dixie Tabernacle in Nashville. Within days, sacks of mail begin arriving at WSM radio, requesting the boy who sang "Great Speckled Bird" be invited back. Acuff sideman Clell Summey becomes the first to play Dobro on the Opry
    Feb 9, 1938
    Guitarist Wayne Moss is born in Charleston, West Virginia. He plays on such hits as Eddy Arnold's "Turn The World Around," Jim Ed Brown's "Pop A Top," Loretta Lynn's "Blue Kentucky Girl" and Bobby Bare's "500 Miles Away From Home"
    Feb 10, 1938
    Songwriter Richard Whiting dies of heart disease in Beverly Hills. The father of Margaret Whiting, he wrote "Ain't We Got Fun," "Hooray For Hollywood," "On The Good Ship Lollipop" and The Hoosier Hot Shots' "Breezin' Along With The Breeze"
    Feb 12, 1938
    The Sons Of The Pioneers perform "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" in the Charles Starrett western "Cattle Raiders," debuting in movie theaters
    Feb 14, 1938
    Following his February 5 debut, Roy Acuff receives a letter from the Grand Ole Opry asking him to return. Acuff later calls it "the greatest thrill I ever had in my life"
    Feb 17, 1938
    Banjo player Buck Trent is born in Spartanburg, South Carolina. A "Hee Haw" cast member, he plays with Bill Carlisle, Porter Wagoner and Roy Clark from the 1950s until 1980, when he goes solo. During his tenure with Wagoner, he invents the electric banjo. Trent also plays on Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" and "Jolene"
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