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Jun 1, 1915
Johnny Bond is born in Enville, Oklahoma. A singer, songwriter and actor, he provides an on-screen sidekick for Gene Autry and Tex Ritter. Bond also earns a handful of country hits on his way to the Country Music Hall of Fame
Jun 9, 1915
Guitarist and studio innovator Les Paul is born in Waukesha, Wisconsin. His album with Chet Atkins, "Chester And Lester," wins a country Grammy in 1977, and he earns a country hit, "Mockin' Bird Hill," with wife Mary Ford in 1951
Jun 10, 1915
Beatrice Stone is born in Hibbing, Minnesota. Her offspring includes Bob Dylan, a groundbreaking singer/songwriter who authors such country hits as "It Ain't Me, Babe," "You Ain't Going Nowhere" and "To Make You Feel My Love"
Jun 17, 1915
David "Stringbean" Akeman is born in Annville, Kentucky. As a banjo player, he joins Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. But he is better known as a comedian, noted for a striped shirt and pants that seem belted at his thighs. He joins the Grand Ole Opry in the 1940s, remaining a member until his murder in 1973
Jun 18, 1915
A.P. Carter marries Sara Dougherty, uniting two of the three performers who will comprise The Carter Family, in Clinch Mountain, Virginia
Jun 19, 1915
Actor Pat Buttram is born in Addison, Alabama. The comedic sidekick appears alongside Gene Autry in a string of western movies before carving out a role as Mr. Haney on TV's "Green Acres"
Jun 21, 1915
Georgia's governor commutes Leo Frank's sentence from the death penalty to life in prison. Frank had been sentenced for a murder that led Fiddlin' John Carson to write "Little Mary Phagan." Carson joins protests at the governor's mansion in Atlanta
Jun 23, 1915
Zeb Turner is born in Lynchburg, Virginia. He earns hits with 1949's "Tennessee Boogie" and 1951's "Chew Tobacco Rag," and writes Eddy Arnold's "It's A Sin" and Elvis Presley's "That's When Your Heartaches Begin"
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