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Jul 23, 1940
Johnny Darrell is born in Hopewell, Alabama. He has country hits in the 1960s with "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town" and "With Pen In Hand"
Jul 25, 1940
Eight months after an annulment had been granted to a pregnant Mary Louise Wills, she gives Bob Wills a daughter, Rosetta Wills, born in Pawhuska, Oklahoma
Jul 26, 1940
Spade Cooley plays fiddle as "You're Not So Tough" debuts on movie screens, with the Dead End Kids visiting California
Jul 26, 1940
Lawrence Brown is born in Simonton, Texas. Under the stage name Dobie Gray, he nets a million-selling pop single in 1973 with "Drift Away" and writes John Conlee's 1986 country hit "Got My Heart Set On You"
Jul 29, 1940
The Tex Ritter western "Rainbow Over The Range" debuts, with Ritter's future wife, Dorothy Fay, co-starring. In the picture, the cavalry tries to halt the theft of its horses
Jul 30, 1940
The Roy Rogers western "The Ranger And The Lady" debuts in theaters with support from his usual sideman Gabby Hayes and an appearance on banjo by Spade Cooley
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