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    • Oct 4, 1929
    Leroy Van Dyke is born in Spring Fork, Missouri. He earns a major pop and country hit with his 1961 recording "Walk On By," and scores as well with "Auctioneer" and "If A Woman Answers (Hang Up The Phone)"
    Oct 9, 1929
    Gene Autry holds his first recording session, for Victor Records, in New York, with background singer Johnny Marvin yodeling
    Oct 11, 1929
    Fiddler Eck Robertson records the "Brilliancy Medley" in Dallas, Texas. The track is included in the landmark 1952 album "Anthology Of American Folk Music"
    Oct 11, 1929
    Vocalist Hugh Jarrett is born in Nashville, Tennessee. A member of The Jordanaires during the mid-1950s, he appears on numerous Elvis Presley hits as well as the Jim Reeves single "The Blizzard"
    Oct 13, 1929
    Songwriter Bernie Baum is born in New York City. He writes Elvis Presley's "(You're The) Devil In Disguise" and The Everly Brothers' "That's Old Fashioned (That's The Way Love Should Be)"
    Oct 22, 1929
    Jimmie Rodgers records six songs at the Jefferson Hotel in Dallas: "Blue Yodel No. 6 (You Can't Fuss And Fight No Mo')," "I've Ranged, I've Roamed, And I've Travelled," "My Rough And Rowdy Ways," "The Land Of My Boyhood Dreams," "Whisper Your Mother's Name" and "Yodeling Cowboy"
    Oct 26, 1929
    Fiddlin' John Carson's 17-year-old son, John L. Carson, dies at Atlanta's Piedmont Sanitarium from tetanus and blood poisoning, picked up when he stepped on an infectious nail after the family's house had burned
    Oct 26, 1929
    Neal Matthews is born in Nashville. As a member of The Jordanaires, he sings background on hits by George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Johnny Horton, Elvis Presley and others, propelling the quartet into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001
    Oct 28, 1929
    Ray Hall secures copyright for "Moonlight And Skies," which Jimmie Rodgers records the following summer. Hall later balks when Rodgers tries to pay him a standard fee for the song
    Oct 28, 1929
    Singer/songwriter Mitchell Torok is born in Houston, Texas. He has a pair of hits in the mid-1950s and writes Jim Reeves' first hit, "Mexican Joe"
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