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    • Feb 1, 1950
    RCA unveils the first 45 rpm record player
    Feb 3, 1950
    Bill Monroe holds his first recording session for Decca Records in Nashville at the Castle Studio in the Tulane Hotel. For the first time, his studio musicians include vocalist/guitarist Jimmy Martin and fiddler Vassar Clements
    Feb 6, 1950
    Decca Records releases Ernest Tubb's double-sided hit "I Love You Because" backed with "Unfaithful One"
    Feb 6, 1950
    Decca releases Bing Crosby's pop hit "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy," a cover of Red Foley's current country hit
    Feb 6, 1950
    R&B act Natalie Cole is born to Nat "King" Cole in Los Angeles. She grabs a Country Music Association nomination in 1994 when a duet with Reba McEntire, "Since I Fell For You," appears on "Rhythm Country & Blues," a finalist for Album of the Year
    Feb 9, 1950
    "Young Man With A Horn," a movie based loosely on the life of late jazz trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke, opens. Starring Kirk Douglas and Lauren Bacall, it also features Beiderbecke's friend, Hoagy Carmichael, the author of "Georgia On My Mind"
    Feb 9, 1950
    Little Jimmy Dickens records "Hillbilly Fever" in Nashville at the Castle Studio in the Tulane Hotel. The song also mentions "Slipping Around," "Lovesick Blues," "Sugarfoot Rag" and "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy"
    Feb 15, 1950
    The animated Disney movie "Cinderella" appears in theaters. Forty-five years later, Garth Brooks references the film--and its song "Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo"--in his sexually tinged single "It's Midnight Cinderella"
    Feb 15, 1950
    Coral releases Kenny Roberts' remake of "Choc'late Ice Cream Cone"
    Feb 16, 1950
    Record producer and guitarist Paul Worley is born in Nashville. His productions include Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now," The Band Perry's "If I Die Young," Martina McBride's "Independence Day" and The Dixie Chicks' "Wide Open Spaces"
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