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    • Jan 17, 1954
    Lyricist Richard Adler has a son, Christopher Adler. Dad wrote the Ernest Tubb-Red Foley hit "The Strange Little Girl"
    Jan 17, 1954
    NBC's "The Roy Rogers Show" welcomes guest Ray Whitley in an episode titled "The Kid From Silver City," also featuring regular cast members Dale Evans and Pat Brady
    Jan 18, 1954
    Columbia releases Ray Price's double-sided hit, "I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)" backed by "Release Me"
    Jan 18, 1954
    Decca releases Webb Pierce's "Slowly"
    Jan 19, 1954
    George Jones conducts his first recording session at a makeshift studio in the Beaumont, Texas, home of Starday Records co-owner Jack Starnes, recording "No Money In This Deal"
    Jan 19, 1954
    Johnny Bond records "10 Little Bottles" at his home studio in Burbank, California. It's another 10 little years before a different Bond version of the song becomes a hit
    Jan 19, 1954
    Kitty Wells records "Release Me" at Nashville's Castle Studio in the Tulane Hotel
    Jan 19, 1954
    EMI announces it will gain controlling interest of Capitol Records. The label already represents Merle Travis and Tennessee Ernie Ford, and will go on to house such artists as Garth Brooks, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens and Lady Antebellum
    Jan 21, 1954
    Bill Monroe buys his second farm, a 288-acre property in Sumner County, Tennessee, with a $10 down payment for the $15,660 purchase. He will share the home with bass player Bessie Lee Mauldin while his wife Carolyn remains on his other farm
    Jan 22, 1954
    Woody Guthrie and Anneke Marshall have a daughter, Lorina Lynn Guthrie, at New York's Bellevue Hospital
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