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Jul 3, 1943
Vocalist Judith Durham is born in Essendon, Australia. The year she turns 20, she joins the pop band The Seekers, who record two songs that will become Sonny James country hits: "I'll Never Find Another You" and "A World Of Our Own"
Jul 5, 1943
The war movie "Thumbs Up" debuts in theaters, with Brenda Joyce in the lead role. The Hoosier Hot Shots appear as themselves
Jul 5, 1943
Guitarist Robbie Robertson is born in Toronto. He joins The Band, a rock group that tours with Bob Dylan for two years. The Country Music Foundation ranks The Band's 1969 release "Up On Cripple Creek" among country's 500 greatest singles in the 2003 book "Heartaches By The Number"
Jul 10, 1943
Woody Guthrie is stationed along with fellow folk singer Cisco Houston on the S.S. Travis, which begins a three-week deployment at Gibraltar. Two months later, the ship is torpedoed by a German submarine
Jul 12, 1943
Sergeant Lou Busch, employed as an arranger at the Santa Ana Army Air Base, marries actress Janet Blair in Lake Arrowhead, California. He adopts a stage name, Joe "Fingers" Carr, and later shares billing with Tennessee Ernie Ford on a country hit
Jul 12, 1943
Singer/songwriter Christine McVie is born in Birmingham, England. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, she writes the group's 1975 hit "Say You Love Me," which finds its way into country music four years later as a remake by Stephanie Winslow
Jul 12, 1943
Roy Rogers appears on the cover of Life magazine
Jul 18, 1943
The Weavers' Pete Seeger marries Toshi Ohta
Jul 22, 1943
Jim Reeves is one of nine players suspended by the D-level Jamestown, New York, baseball team. In the aftermath, Reeves finds work installing machine guns on B-17 bombers for Lockheed
Jul 23, 1943
Tony Joe White is born in Oak Grove, Louisiana. Best known for his southern-fried pop hit "Polk Salad Annie," he writes "Rainy Night In Georgia," a country hit for Hank Williams Jr., and the last song that Conway Twitty records before his death
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