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    • Dec 5, 1930
    Victor releases Jimmie Rodgers' "Pistol Packin' Papa" and "Those Gambler's Blues"
    Dec 8, 1930
    Tex Ritter has his first acting role of note in the Boston stage production "Green Grow The Lilacs." Ritter sings four songs in the show, which also travels to Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., New York, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and St. Louis
    Dec 11, 1930
    Nineteen months after Eddy Arnold's father died, the family's property is bought at auction in Jackson, Tennessee, by Obe and M.B. Latham, who re-sell it eight days later to Allan Arnold, Eddy's half-brother
    Dec 13, 1930
    Buck White, of The Whites, is born in Oklahoma City. Along with daughters Cheryl and Sharon, he earns bluegrass-inflected hits in the early-1980s with "Hangin' Around," "You Put The Blue In Me" and "Give Me Back That Old Familiar Feeling"
    Dec 17, 1930
    Frankie Miller is born in Victoria, Texas. He scores Top 10 hits in 1959 with "Black Land Farmer" and "Family Man"
    Dec 19, 1930
    Allan Arnold, Eddy Arnold's half-brother, purchases the family farm from Obe and M.B. Latham, who had bought it at auction eight days prior. Eddy's family becomes tenants, instead of landowners
    Dec 25, 1930
    Fiddler Lowe Stokes is shot near Cartersville, Georgia. His right hand is so badly damaged that it is subsequently amputated. Stokes played on Gid Tanner & The Skiller Lickers' recording of "Soldier's Joy"
    Dec 28, 1930
    The Carolina Tar Heels' banjo player, Dock Walsh, has a son, Drake Walsh
    Dec 30, 1930
    Steel guitarist Orville "Red" Rhodes is born in East Alton, Illinois. He wins four Academy of Country Music Awards as a musician in the 1960s and '70s
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