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Oct 14, 1939
NBC's 26-station "Red" network of radio stations carries a half-hour segment of the Grand Ole Opry for the first time, with Roy Acuff hosting. Acts include Uncle Dave Macon, The Fruit Jar Drinkers and DeFord Bailey
Oct 14, 1939
BMI files its charter using the formal name Broadcast Music, Inc. The performing rights organization collects and distributes royalties for the public performance of songs on behalf of its member songwriters and publishers. The U.S. has two additional performing rights agencies: ASCAP and SESAC
Oct 17, 1939
The Frank Capra film "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington," starring Jimmy Stewart, debuts in Washington, D.C. The picture provides a foundation for the 1960s TV series of the same name, which co-stars Red Foley
Oct 19, 1939
Guitarist Roy Lanham begins working on Knoxville radio station WNOX. He is destined to become a member of The Sons Of The Pioneers and to play on Loretta Lynn's "I'm A Honky Tonk Girl" and Ned Miller's "From A Jack To A King"
Oct 23, 1939
Bill Monroe auditions for the Grand Ole Opry at the WSM Radio studios in downtown Nashville, performing "Foggy Mountain Top," "Mule Skinner Blues" and "Fire On The Mountain." He passes the audition and debuts five days later
Oct 27, 1939
The Roy Rogers western "Jeepers Creepers" debuts in theaters
Oct 27, 1939
Ruby Wright is born in Nashville, the daughter of Kitty Wells and Johnny Wright. She earns a hit in 1964 with "Dern Ya," an answer song to Roger Miller's "Dang Me"
Oct 27, 1939
Songwriter Dallas Frazier is born in Spiro, Oklahoma. A 1976 addition to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, he writes The Oak Ridge Boys' "Elvira," Patty Loveless' "If My Heart Had Windows" and Gene Watson's "Fourteen Carat Mind," among others
Oct 28, 1939
Model Sara Lownds is born in Wilmington, Delaware, with the given name Shirley Marlin Noznisky. She becomes the first wife of singer/songwriter Bob Dylan, whom she meets in 1964, the same year he writes the Johnny Cash hit "It Ain't Me, Babe"
Oct 28, 1939
Bill Monroe makes his first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry, performing "Foggy Mountain Top" and "Mule Skinner Blues" at Nashville's War Memorial Auditorium
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