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Sep 1, 1933
Songwriter Bernie Lowe dies in Wyncote, Pennsylvania. He co-wrote Elvis Presley's crossover hit "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear"
Sep 1, 1933
Harold Jenkins is born in Friars Point, Mississippi. As Conway Twitty, he leaves a pop/rock career in 1965 to pursue country music, racking up hits consistently for more than 20 years, including a series of duets with Loretta Lynn. Twitty joins the Country Music Hall of Fame posthumously in 1999
Sep 3, 1933
Tompall Glaser is born in Spalding, Nebraska. He joins Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter on the 1976 album "Wanted: The Outlaws" and has several hits as a member of Tompall & The Glaser Brothers. The Glasers also provide background vocals on Marty Robbins' "El Paso"
Sep 6, 1933
Clarence Ashley and Gwen Foster record an early version of "House Of The Rising Sun." The title becomes a country hit for Dolly Parton in 1981
Sep 8, 1933
Victor releases Jimmie Rodgers' single "I'm Free (From The Chain Gang Now)" backed with "The Yodeling Ranger"
Sep 13, 1933
Bass player Lewie Steinberg is born in Memphis. An original member of Booker T. & The MG's, he plays bass on William Bell's "You Don't Miss Your Water," considered one of country's all-time greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
Sep 18, 1933
Jimmie Rodgers is born in Camas, Washington. Given the same name as The Singing Brakeman, who died four months earlier, Rodgers hits the Top 10 in pop and country during the late 1950s with "Honeycomb" and "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine"
Sep 21, 1933
Janet Buschmann is born in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. Under the name Janet Ertel, she rises to prominence with the pop vocal group The Chordettes. Two of their biggest hits, "Mr. Sandman" and "Born To Be With You," will be remade as country hits by Emmylou Harris and Sonny James
Sep 24, 1933
Drummer Mel Taylor is born in Brooklyn, New York. A member of the rock instrumental group The Ventures beginning in 1961, he also handles the sticks on a pair of Buck Owens hits, "My Heart Skips A Beat" and "Together Again"
Sep 25, 1933
Ian Tyson is born in British Columbia, Canada. The folk singer and rodeo cowboy writes Bobby Bare's "Four Strong Winds" and "Someday Soon," a Judy Collins pop recording that becomes a minor country hit for Moe Bandy in 1982 and for Suzy Bogguss in 1991
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