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    • May 5, 1933
    Songwriter Bobby Austin is born in Wenatchee, Washington. He co-writes Tammy Wynette's first charted single, "Apartment #9," with Johnny Paycheck, and co-writes Glen Campbell's "Try A Little Kindness"
    May 8, 1933
    Roy Rogers marries his first wife, Lucille Ascolese
    May 14, 1933
    Jimmie Rodgers arrives in New York, checking in at the Taft Hotel, to prepare for a series of recording dates. They prove to be the last sessions of his career
    May 17, 1933
    Jimmie Rodgers records "Cowhand's Last Ride" and "Blue Yodel No. 12 (Barefoot Blues)," the two sides on country music's first picture disc, at the Victor Studios in New York. Also recorded: "Dreaming With Tears In My Eyes" and "I'm Free (From The Chain Gang Now)"
    May 18, 1933
    "Daddy got a job with the TVA...": President Franklin Roosevelt signs a bill that creates the Tennessee Valley Authority, influencing the lyrics of the 1989 Alabama hit "Song Of The South"
    May 18, 1933
    Jimmie Rodgers records "Yodeling My Way Back Home" and "The Last Blue Yodel (The Women Make A Fool Out Of Me)" in New York's Victor Studios
    May 20, 1933
    Jimmie Rodgers records "Old Pal Of My Heart" and "The Yodeling Ranger" at the Victor Studios in New York during what amounts to his final week of recording. Suffering from tuberculosis, he sings from an easy chair, bolstered by pillows
    May 24, 1933
    A sickly Jimmie Rodgers holds his final recording session at the Victor Studios in New York, cutting "Mississippi Delta Blues," "Old Love Letters," "Somewhere Down Below The Mason Dixon Line" and "Years Ago"
    May 25, 1933
    Jimmie Rodgers spends his final day alive on the beach at Coney Island in Brooklyn
    May 26, 1933
    Jimmie Rodgers, suffering from tuberculosis, dies of a massive hemorrhage at New York's Taft Hotel. Nicknamed the Singing Brakeman, he became country music's first superstar, and, in 1961, the first person inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame
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