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  • Nov 2, 1944
    Decca releases Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters' version of "Don't Fence Me In." The Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number," published in 2003, ranks it among country's 500 greatest singles of all-time
    Nov 3, 1944
    The first graphite reactor, designed to produce atomic power, goes into operation in the secret government town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The community's name is soon borrowed by the Oak Ridge Quartet, which becomes The Oak Ridge Boys
    Nov 6, 1944
    "Lights Of Old Santa Fe" debuts, rounding up Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Gabby Hayes and The Sons Of The Pioneers in a movie built around a rodeo crime
    Nov 7, 1944
    Roy Acuff loses $100 in a bet with Ernest Tubb when Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Thomas Dewey for president
    Nov 8, 1944
    Bonnie Bramlett is born in Acton, Illinois. As one-half of Delaney & Bonnie, she sings on the 1971 pop hit "Never Ending Song Of Love," remade in country music the same year by Dickey Lee. She also joins Earl Scruggs on a 1975 anniversary album
    Nov 9, 1944
    Louisiana governor Jimmie Davis is featured in the cast of the Charles Starrett picture "Cyclone Prairie Rangers" as it debuts in theaters. The movie also includes Jimmy Wakely and Foy Willing
    Nov 9, 1944
    Tex Ritter stars in the debut of "Dead Or Alive." Ritter's character, the Idaho Kid, comes close to being hanged
    Nov 10, 1944
    Lyricist Tim Rice is born in Amersham, England. Noted for his work with Broadway composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, he also co-writes "Written In The Stars," a song from "Aida" which LeAnn Rimes records in a 1999 duet with Elton John
    Nov 11, 1944
    Mehmet Ertegun, the Turkish ambassador to the United States, dies of a heart attack in Washington, D.C. Three years later, Atlantic Records is founded by his sons, Nesuhi and Ahmet Ergetun. Ahmet goes on to write Mickey Gilley's "Chains Of Love"
    Nov 11, 1944
    Columbia and Victor Records reach agreement with James Petrillo, president of the American Federation of Musicians, ending a recording ban that had been in place for more than two years

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