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Mar 14, 1951
Zella Lehr is born in Burbank, California. After starting her career on "Hee Haw," she gains a Top 10 hit with a version of Dolly Parton's "Two Doors Down" that is recorded three months before Parton's version
Mar 15, 1951
Gene Autry plays a lawman disrupting a bogus Mexican lottery in the debut of the movie "Texans Never Cry," featuring his sidekick Pat Buttram
Mar 15, 1951
Ray Price holds his first recording session for Columbia Records at the Jim Beck Studio in Dallas, Texas. He starts with a song that will become his debut single, the Lefty Frizzell-penned "If You're Ever Lonely Darling"
Mar 16, 1951
Hank Williams records "Hey, Good Lookin'," "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)," "Howlin' At The Moon" and "My Heart Would Know" in an afternoon session at Nashville's Castle Recording Studio
Mar 16, 1951
Ray Benson is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He forms Asleep At The Wheel, which emerges as the strongest modern advocate for western swing. The group wins multiple Grammys but earns just one hit, "The Letter That Johnny Walker Read"
Mar 17, 1951
Hawkshaw Hawkins records "I'm Waiting Just For You" in Cincinnati
Mar 19, 1951
Columbia releases Lefty Frizzell's "I Want To Be With You Always"
Mar 21, 1951
Bass player Conrad Lozano is born in Los Angeles. He joins Los Lobos, a Tex-Mex band whose 1985 record "Will The Wolf Survive?" ranks among country's all-time greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number"
Mar 22, 1951
Jimmy Wakely and Margaret Whiting record "When You And I Were Young Maggie Blues" at the Capitol Studios on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles
Mar 25, 1951
Ernest Tubb and his second wife, Olene, have their first daughter, Erlene Dale Tubb
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