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Mar 1, 1917
Songwriter, bass player and radio talent Cliffie Stone is born in Stockton, California. He plays on numerous Capitol hits and co-writes "Divorce Me C.O.D." and "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed," joining the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989
Mar 12, 1917
Chess Records co-founder Leonard Chess is born in Motol, Poland. He becomes a major figure in blues and R&B, and produces Chuck Berry's "Maybellene," ranked among country's 500 greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation book
Mar 16, 1917
Woodwind player Darol Rice is born. He contributes bass clarinet to Tennessee Ernie Ford's 1955 classic "Sixteen Tons"
Mar 17, 1917
Lily Mae Ledford is born in Pilot, Kentucky. She becomes the leader of The Coon Creek Girls, the first all-female stringband, and the first country act to perform at the White House. She also gives birth to Exile's J.P. Pennington
Mar 23, 1917
Eugene "Smokey" Rogers is born in McMinnville, Tennessee. He scores a 1949 hit with "A Little Bird Told Me," writes Ferlin Husky's "Gone" and Spade Cooley's "You Can't Break My Heart," and plays on hits by Cooley and Tex Williams
Mar 26, 1917
Songwriter Billy Wallace is born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He writes several hits for Webb Pierce and Kitty Wells, including Pierce's "Back Street Affair"
Mar 30, 1917
Record executive Randy Wood is born in Morrison, Tennessee. He founds Dot Records, which plays a key role in the careers of Donna Fargo, Joe Stampley, Mac Wiseman and Roy Clark
Mar 31, 1917
Fiddler Joe Holley is born in Lone Camp, Texas. A prominent member of Bob Wills' Texas Playboys, he plays on such western-swing classics as "Stay A Little Longer," "Smoke On The Water" and "White Cross On Okinawa"
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