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    • Feb 1, 1947
    Monte Hale stars with the debut of the western "Last Frontier Uprising," also featuring Doye O'Dell and Foy Willing & The Riders Of The Purple Sage
    Feb 2, 1947
    Actress Farrah Fawcett is born in Corpus Christi, Texas. Noted for her role in the television series "Charlie's Angels," she's mentioned in the lyrics of The Bellamy Brothers' 1981 hit "You're My Favorite Star"
    Feb 8, 1947
    Merle Travis spends the first of 14 consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed"
    Feb 8, 1947
    Good guy Jimmy Wakely is embroiled in a cattle feud in the debut of the western "Rainbow Over The Rockies." Wakely performs with sidekick Lee "Lasses" White and Wesley Tuttle & His Texas Stars
    Feb 9, 1947
    Fire breaks out in the home of "This Land Is Your Land" songwriter Woody Guthrie at 3520 Mermaid Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. His four-year-old daughter, Cathy Guthrie, is burned severely. She dies the following morning
    Feb 9, 1947
    Joe Ely is born in Amarillo, Texas. Mixing country and rock, he becomes a fixture on the Texas red-dirt circuit. He also forms a side project, The Flatlanders, with fellow Texans Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore
    Feb 10, 1947
    Bass player Chris Ethridge is born in Meridian, Mississippi. He co-founds The Flying Burrito Brothers and plays on a bundle of Willie Nelson hits, including "Blue Skies," "Georgia On My Mind" and "Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain"
    Feb 10, 1947
    Columbia releases Johnny Bond's "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed"
    Feb 10, 1947
    Ernest Tubb records "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed" and "Don't Look Now (But Your Broken Heart Is Showing)" in Chicago
    Feb 13, 1947
    The movie "Over The Santa Fe Trail" debuts with Ken Curtis, a future member of the Sons Of The Pioneers, starring. Also appearing: Smiley Burnette and The Hoosier Hot Shots, who perform "We're Always In The Money But Still We're Always Broke"
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