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    • Jul 3, 1929
    R&B vocalist David Lynch is born in St. Louis, Missouri. As the second tenor with The Platters, he becomes part of the 1955 pop hit "Only You (And You Alone)," remade as a country single in 1981 by Reba McEntire
    Jul 3, 1929
    William "Gil" Wright is born in Nashville. As a member of The Anita Kerr Singers, he provides backing vocals on Bobby Helms' "My Special Angel," Skeeter Davis' "The End Of The World" and Jim Reeves' "He'll Have To Go"
    Jul 7, 1929
    While playing baseball at Knoxville's Caswell Park, Roy Acuff collapses from sunstroke. After three more attacks, Acuff gives up plans for a baseball career and ends up in music
    Jul 9, 1929
    Songwriter/producer Lee Hazlewood is born in Mannford, Oklahoma. Best known for his work on Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'," he produces Sanford Clark's 1956 pop/country crossover hit "The Fool"
    Jul 9, 1929
    Mandolin player Jesse McReynolds is born in Coeburn, Virginia. He joins his brother to form Jim & Jesse, a bluegrass act that begins recording in 1951 and joins the Grand Ole Opry in 1964
    Jul 10, 1929
    Colleen Carroll is born. She signs in the 1950s with Capitol Records, the same label that ultimately launches the career of her son, Garth Brooks
    Jul 11, 1929
    Singer/songwriter Billy Cox holds his first recording session, for the Gennett label, in Richmond, Indiana. He becomes best known as the writer of "Filipino Baby" and "Sparkling Brown Eyes"
    Jul 19, 1929
    Louis Armstrong records Fats Waller's "Ain't Misbehavin'," one of four versions of the song to become a pop hit during the year. More than 50 years later, the song becomes a country hit in a new recording by Hank Williams Jr.
    Jul 28, 1929
    "Jackie's seen in a discotheque doin' a brand new dance..." Jacqueline Bouvier is born in Southampton, New York. The wife of president John F. Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis, she's namechecked in Loretta Lynn's 1972 hit "One's On The Way"
    Jul 30, 1929
    Gene Austin records "Ain't Misbehavin'" in New York City. The pop hit will be refashioned as a country single by Hank Williams Jr. in 1986
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