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  • Mar 1, 1944
    Merle Travis ends a six-year stint on Cincinnati's WLW Radio. Fellow employee Hank Penny drives him to the train station, and Travis moves to California the same day
    Mar 3, 1944
    Bass player Jance Garfat is born in California. He plays with pop music's Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show, recording two songs that receive country covers: "Sylvia's Mother" and "The Cover Of 'Rolling Stone'"
    Mar 4, 1944
    Buster Crabbe stars with the debut of the western "Frontier Outlaws," featuring singing cowboy Tex Williams
    Mar 4, 1944
    R&B singer Bobby Womack is born in Cleveland, Ohio. He writes The Rolling Stones' 1964 pop hit "It's All Over Now," which John Anderson remakes for the country audience in 1985
    Mar 6, 1944
    Mary Wilson is born in Detroit. She becomes an original member of The Supremes, a Motown act whose 1969 single "Someday We'll Be Together" is re-recorded by Bill Anderson & Jan Howard
    Mar 7, 1944
    Singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt is born in Fort Worth, Texas. A vivid songwriter and wild personality, he authors a pair of 1980s hits: Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson cover "Pancho And Lefty"; Emmylou Harris & Don Williams do "If I Needed You"
    Mar 11, 1944
    Al Dexter's "Rosalita" tops the Billboard country singles chart
    Mar 11, 1944
    Songwriter Graham Lyle is born in Bellshill, Scotland. Best known for the songs he lands with Tina Turner, he also writes Don Williams' "Stay Young," Ronnie Milsap's "Button Off My Shirt" and Eddy Raven's "Joe Knows How To Live"
    Mar 14, 1944
    Songwriter Cindy Walker records her only hit as an artist, "When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again," in New York
    Mar 14, 1944
    John Pink Miller, the father of Emmett Miller, dies in Macon, Georgia. Emmett Miller was a vaudevillian who greatly influenced Jimmie Rodgers

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