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May 16, 1944
Red Foley records "Smoke On The Water" and "There's A Blue Star Shining Bright (In A Window Tonight)"
May 17, 1944
Pop singer/songwriter Jesse Winchester is born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He moves to Canada in 1967 to avoid the draft, but scores a country hit 20 years later when Michael Martin Murphey records his song "I'm Gonna Miss You, Girl"
May 18, 1944
Pee Wee and Lydia King have twins, Larry and Gene King
May 18, 1944
"Riding West," the second movie to feature Ernest Tubb, debuts
May 20, 1944
One week after a mammoth table saw accident, Johnny Cash's older brother, Jack, dies in Dyess, Arkansas. The funeral comes one day later, and the next, the Cash family is back in the fields, picking cotton for 10 hours
May 21, 1944
"Back In The Saddle Again" songwriter Ray Whitley performs songs written by former Gene Autry sideman Johnny Marvin as the B-western "Boss Of Boomtown" makes its debut in movie theaters
May 23, 1944
Rounder Records co-founder Ken Irwin is born in New York City. His label specializes in roots music and bluegrass, launching Alison Krauss + Union Station and albums by Bela Fleck, Earl Scruggs, Steve Martin and Joe Diffie
May 24, 1944
R&B singer Patti LaBelle is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She earns a nomination from the Country Music Association in 1994 when a duet with Travis Tritt appears on "Rhythm Country & Blues," an Album of the Year candidate
May 25, 1944
Lucky Millinder And His Orchestra record "Hurry, Hurry" with bluesman Winonie Harris on lead vocals. The song finds its way into the Top 10 on an early version of the Billboard country charts
May 26, 1944
Steel guitarist Gates Nichols is born in New York, New York. He joins Confederate Railroad, whose blend of Southern rock and honky tonk nets the 1990s hits "Trashy Women," "Daddy Never Was The Cadillac Kind" and "Queen Of Memphis"
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