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Sep 5, 1939
John Stewart is born in San Diego. A member of The Kingston Trio from 1961-1967, he writes Rosanne Cash's "Runaway Train" and Anne Murray's "Daydream Believer"
Sep 6, 1939
David Allan Coe is born in Akron, Ohio, an event he calls "the first of a long line of crimes I was to be convicted for" in his autobiography. He pens "Take This Job And Shove It" and "Would You Lay With Me (In A Field Of Stone)," and records "The Ride" and the "perfect country & western song," "You Never Even Called Me By My Name"
Sep 8, 1939
The Hopalong Cassidy movie "Range War" debuts in theaters with Eddie Dean in a bad-guy role
Sep 9, 1939
"Riders Of The Frontier" becomes Tex Ritter's 20th movie debut
Sep 11, 1939
Gene Autry records "South Of The Border (Down Mexico Way)" in Chicago
Sep 13, 1939
The Rice Brothers record "You Are My Sunshine." The song becomes a major hit the following year for Jimmie Davis
Sep 13, 1939
Moses Uzzell, of the soul group The Corsairs, is born in LaGrange, North Carolina. The act earns a 1961 hit with "Smoky Places," revived on the country charts in 1969 by Billy Walker
Sep 13, 1939
Charles Starrett and The Sons Of The Pioneers return north of the border as the mining picture "Outpost Of The Mounties" debuts in theaters
Sep 15, 1939
Bob Atcher records his first hit, "I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes," for Vocalion
Sep 20, 1939
Fresh from a triumphant overseas trip to England and Europe, Gene Autry begins filming again in Los Angeles
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