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    • Nov 1, 1929
    Edison Records closes, 51 years after it was opened in West Orange, New Jersey, by inventor Thomas Edison. The label began as the Edison Speaking Phonograph Company, originally intended to supply dictation equipment to businesses
    Nov 1, 1929
    Bob Wills holds his first recording session, playing "Gulf Coast Blues" and "Wills Breakdown" with guitarist Herman Arnspiger in Dallas
    Nov 4, 1929
    Songwriter Paul Vance is born in Brooklyn, New York. The author of such pop hits as "Catch A Falling Star" and "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," he also writes Faron Young's 1957 country hit "Love Has Finally Come My Way"
    Nov 8, 1929
    Songwriter and record executive Bert Berns is born in The Bronx. He writes "Piece Of My Heart," a Janis Joplin hit that is remade for country by Faith Hill. Berns also founds Bang Records and pens "Hang On Sloopy" and "Twist And Shout"
    Nov 9, 1929
    Jimmie Rodgers begins production on a 10-minute movie short, "The Singing Brakeman," in Camden, New Jersey
    Nov 10, 1929
    Pop songwriter Marilyn Bergman is born in New York. Along with husband Alan Bergman, she writes "The Theme From the Summer Of '42" and "The Way We Were," plus country hits "All His Children" and "You Don't Bring Me Flowers"
    Nov 11, 1929
    The Municipal Auditorium is dedicated in Shreveport, Louisiana. The building becomes the home of "The Louisiana Hayride," a radio show that provides a launching pad for Elvis Presley, Johnny Horton, Hank Williams, Webb Pierce and David Houston, among others
    Nov 11, 1929
    R&B singer LaVern Baker is born in Chicago, Illinois. In 1958, she introduces the pop hit "I Cried A Tear," covered in country music the following year by Ernest Tubb
    Nov 13, 1929
    Jimmie Rodgers records "Hobo Bill's Last Ride" in New Orleans
    Nov 15, 1929
    R&B singer Joe Hinton is born in Evansville, Indiana. He earns a 1964 pop hit with Willie Nelson's "Funny How Time Slips Away"
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