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    • Dec 6, 1941
    Helen Cornelius is born in Hannibal, Missouri. She joins Jim Ed Brown to develop seven hit singles from 1976-1980, including "I Don't Want To Have To Marry You," which wins the Country Music Association's 1977 Vocal Duo of the Year honor
    Dec 7, 1941
    The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Tennessee Ernie Ford, working as a disc jockey at WORL, is the first person to inform Knoxville of the tragedy
    Dec 8, 1941
    The day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tommy Duncan announces he's leaving Bob Wills' Texas Playboys to join the war
    Dec 9, 1941
    The Johnny Mack Brown western "Fighting Bill Fargo" debuts in theaters, with Eddie Dean as a singing cowboy
    Dec 10, 1941
    Leah Kendrick is born in San Antonio, Texas. In 1976, she becomes the second wife of singer/songwriter Roger Miller
    Dec 10, 1941
    Fighter pilot Colin Kelly is killed in a Japanese air attack over the Pacific. One of the first American heroes of World War II, he's remembered the following year in the lyrics of Elton Britt's hit "There's A Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere"
    Dec 12, 1941
    The Claude Rains horror film "The Wolf Man" debuts in theaters. It gets referenced in The Statler Brothers' 1977 country hit "The Movies"
    Dec 12, 1941
    Ray Whitley and Lee "Lasses" White are pardners in the debut of the Tim Holt counterfeiting western "Dude Cowboy," featuring music written by Fred Rose
    Dec 12, 1941
    Roy Rogers and The Sons Of The Pioneers deliver the title song with the movie debut of "Red River Valley"
    Dec 12, 1941
    Pop keyboard player Terry Kirkman is born in Salina, Kansas. He becomes a member of the Los Angeles-based group The Association, which scores a 1967 hit with "Never My Love," later a country hit for Vern Gosdin
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