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Oct 2, 1933
A pair of former western swing bandmates compete in a concert billed as a "battle dance": Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys versus Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies. Admission to the show, at the Green Terrace in Lake Waco, Texas, is $1
Oct 3, 1933
Louise Massey & The Westerners hold their first recording session in Chicago
Oct 4, 1933
Gene Autry records "The Last Round-Up" in Chicago
Oct 5, 1933
Billy Lee Riley is born in Pocahontas, Arkansas. A respected rockabilly artist in his own right, Riley plays guitar on "The Ways Of A Woman In Love" during a session by Sun Records labelmate Johnny Cash
Oct 7, 1933
Burrus Mill files a $10,000 suit against Bob Wills, calling for Wills to stop advertising his band members as former members of The Light Crust Doughboys. The court later decides there's nothing damaging in advertising the truth
Oct 10, 1933
The Light Crust Doughboys record "Beautiful Texas" in Chicago. The session is the first for steel guitarist Leon McAuliffe
Oct 20, 1933
Victor releases Jimmie Rodgers' "Old Love Letters" and "Somewhere Down Below The Mason Dixon Line"
Oct 21, 1933
Mel Street is born in Grundy, Virginia. He nets a steady stream of major and minor hits on independent labels from 1972-1978, but takes his own life on his 45th birthday
Oct 25, 1933
Actress Kathryn Grant is born in Houston, Texas. Thirty years younger than Bing Crosby, she's destined to become his second wife. Crosby earns a country hit with "Pistol Packin' Mama" when Grant is 10 years old
Oct 28, 1933
Singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie marries Mary Jennings at the Holy Souls' Catholic Church in Pampa, Texas
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