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    • Jul 2, 1950
    Western-swing musicians Tex Williams, Deuce Spriggins and Smokey Rogers launch a show on the NBC Radio Network
    Jul 3, 1950
    The USS Valley Forge launches the first carrier air strike of the Korean War. Among the crewmen on the ship is Scotty Moore, future guitarist for Elvis Presley
    Jul 3, 1950
    Moon Mullican records "Goodnight Irene" and "Mona Lisa" in Cincinnati, Ohio
    Jul 4, 1950
    Songwriter Larry Herbstritt is born in Coudersport, Pennsylvania. He charts high in country music as a writer of Ronnie Milsap's "Cowboys And Clowns" and Anne Murray's "I Just Fall In Love Again"
    Jul 4, 1950
    Hank Williams is unable to perform for 11,000 fans at the Watermelon Festival in DeLeon, Texas, because he's "too sick"
    Jul 5, 1950
    Pop/rock singer Huey Lewis is born in New York. The frontman for Huey Lewis & The News, he secures an Academy of Country Music awards nomination after joining Phil Vassar for a 2003 remake of his own 1982 hit "Workin' For A Livin'"
    Jul 7, 1950
    Johnny Cash joins the Air Force and gets assigned to Lackland Air Force Base in Texas for basic training
    Jul 9, 1950
    Songwriter Mark D. Sanders is born in Los Angeles. Among the hits he authors are George Strait's "Blue Clear Sky," Lonestar's "No News," Jo Dee Messina's "Heads Carolina, Tails California" and Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope You Dance"
    Jul 11, 1950
    Jimmy Dean marries his first wife, Mary Sue Wittauer, at the Presbyterian Church in Takoma Park, Maryland
    Jul 11, 1950
    Pop songwriter and Capitol Records co-founder Buddy De Sylva dies in Los Angeles. The label has already enjoyed hits with Tex Ritter, Tex Williams, Jimmy Wakely, Hank Thompson and Merle Travis
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