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Dec 5, 1922
Songwriter Don Robertson is born in Peking, China. His credits include: Hank Locklin's "Please Help Me I'm Falling," Hank Snow's "I Don't Hurt Anymore" and Eddy Arnold's "I Really Don't Want To Know"
Dec 7, 1922
Don Maddox is born in Boaz, Alabama. He joins the family group The Maddox Brothers & Rose, whose energetic and comedic road show makes the Most Colorful Hillbilly Band in America one of the genre's top touring acts during the 1940s and '50s
Dec 8, 1922
Appalachian folk singer, songwriter and dulcimer player Jean Ritchie is born in Viper, Kentucky. She influences The Judds on her way to the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame
Dec 15, 1922
Pioneering disc jockey Alan Freed is born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Destined for membership in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, he is credited as a co-writer on The McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely," covered for country in the 1980s by The Forester Sisters
Dec 20, 1922
Songwriter Geoff Mack is born in Surrey Hills, Australia. He pens the Hank Snow travelogue "I've Been Everywhere"
Dec 20, 1922
Wilene "Sally Ann" Forrester is born. Married to fiddler "Howdy" Forrester, she plays accordion in Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys for three years during World War II, appearing on record on "Kentucky Waltz"
Dec 26, 1922
Fiddler Harry Choates is born in Rayne, Louisiana. The Cajun performer is best known for his recording of the standard "Jole Blon"
Dec 29, 1922
Rose Lee Maphis is born in Hagerstown, Maryland. Following her 1952 marriage to Joe Maphis, she works as half of a husband-and-wife team on Los Angeles TV. She also writes Connie Smith's "Love Is The Look You're Looking For"
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