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    • Aug 2, 1923
    Songwriter Frederic Weatherly marries Miriam Bryan in England. He was the author of "Danny Boy," a future country hit for Ray Price
    Aug 2, 1923
    Memphis broadcaster George D. Hay, working on WMC, becomes the first radio personality to announce the death of president Warren G. Harding. Two years later, Hay establishes the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville
    Aug 3, 1923
    Dottie Dillard is born in Springfield, Missouri. As a member of The Anita Kerr Singers, she sings background on Bobby Helms' "My Special Angel," Skeeter Davis' "The End Of The World" and Jim Reeves' "He'll Have To Go"
    Aug 4, 1923
    James Crowell is born in Blytheville, Arkansas. He will inspire "Many A Long & Lonesome Highway," a country hit written and recorded by his son, Rodney Crowell
    Aug 16, 1923
    Leon Bentley is born in Glasgow, Missouri. In his early 50s, he welcomes a son who's destined to become a country star, Dierks Bentley
    Aug 20, 1923
    Jim Reeves is born in Panola County, Texas. Combining a warm tone with perfectionist phrasing, he becomes one of country's strongest balladeers. He enters the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1967, three years after a plane crash takes his life
    Aug 20, 1923
    John Stoneman is born in Galax, Virginia. The son of Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, he plays autoharp in an early version of The Stoneman Family, but quits to devote his attention to farming
    Aug 23, 1923
    John Bozeman is born in Boothton, Alabama. Under the name Mack Sanders, he becomes a disc jockey and station owner, eventually joining the Country Radio Hall of Fame. He also marries Sherry Bryce, the 1970s duet partner of Mel Tillis
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