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  • Dec 9, 1956
    Sylvia Hutton is born in Kokomo, Indiana. A secretary for record producer Tom Collins, she emerges with a series of glossy, pop-tinged recordings in the 1980s, topped by the million-selling "Nobody"
    Dec 10, 1956
    Decca releases Webb Pierce's "I'm Tired"
    Dec 10, 1956
    Hank Thompson records "Rockin' In The Congo" at the Capitol Recording Studios in Hollywood during an afternoon session
    Dec 10, 1956
    Capitol releases Sonny James' "Young Love" and its hit flip side, "You're The Reason I'm In Love"
    Dec 11, 1956
    Decca Records throws a birthday party for Brenda Lee, as she turns 12, at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas
    Dec 11, 1956
    Patsy Cline's father, Sam Hensley, dies of throat cancer in a West Virginia hospital
    Dec 12, 1956
    Tennessee Ernie Ford is celebrated in an episode of NBC-TV's "This Is Your Life"
    Dec 12, 1956
    Ernest Tubb and his second wife, Olene, have their first son, Ernest Tubb Jr.
    Dec 13, 1956
    Elvis Presley hosts Hal Kanter, a screenwriter employed by movie producer Hal Wallis, for dinner in Memphis. Kanter goes with him the next day to Shreveport, for Presley's final appearance on "The Louisiana Hayride"
    Dec 14, 1956
    Singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie writes for the last time, composing a letter about a fellow patient at Greystone Park in Morris Plains, New Jersey, who eats cigarette butts off the floor. Guthrie is suffering from a degenerative neurological disease

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