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    • Jan 9, 1950
    Hank Williams records "Long Gone Lonesome Blues," "My Son Calls Another Man Daddy," "Why Should We Try Anymore" and "Why Don't You Love Me" in his first session using the Original Drifting Cowboys at Nashville's Castle Studio
    Jan 10, 1950
    The western "Red Rock Outlaw" appears in theaters, less than one month after one of its stars, former Grand Ole Opry member Lee "Lasses" White, died
    Jan 10, 1950
    Steel guitarist Speedy West records his first instrumental, "Steel Strike," during a Cliffie Stone session in Los Angeles
    Jan 10, 1950
    Hank Williams records for the first time under the alias Luke The Drifter at the Castle Studio in downtown Nashville
    Jan 12, 1950
    Frank Sinatra records a pop version of the Red Foley hit "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" in Hollywood
    Jan 14, 1950
    The movie "Hollywood Varieties" debuts in theaters, with The Hoosier Hot Shots singing two songs: "My Bonnie" and "Darlin' You Can't Love One." Robert Alda serves as master of ceremonies
    Jan 15, 1950
    Spade Cooley stars, and sings, as the western movie "The Kid From Gower Gulch" debuts in theaters
    Jan 15, 1950
    David Lynn Jones is born in Bexar, Arkansas. Compared by critics to Bruce Springsteen, he earns just one country hit as an artist, with 1987's "Bonnie Jean (Little Sister)." He also writes Willie Nelson's "Living In The Promiseland"
    Jan 21, 1950
    Dr. Norman Vincent Peale's column, "The Power Of Positive Thinking," begins running in newspapers across the U.S. The title inspires a future Mickey Gilley hit, "The Power Of Positive Drinkin'"
    Jan 21, 1950
    Red Foley slips into the #1 position on the Billboard country singles chart with "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy"
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