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    • Aug 25, 1949
    Hank Garland records "Sugarfoot Rag"
    Aug 25, 1949
    Bass player Gene Simmons is born in Haifa, Israel. He becomes the blood-spitting member of Kiss, a rock band that influences Garth Brooks' concerts. Brooks records the band's "Hard Luck Woman" for a 1994 tribute album, "Kiss My Ass"
    Aug 26, 1949
    George Morgan records "I Love Everything About You" and "Cry-Baby Heart"
    Aug 26, 1949
    Pop performer Bob Cowsill is born. He becomes one of seven members in the family group The Cowsills, the prototype for TV's "The Partridge Family." The group scores a 1968 hit with "Indian Lake," remade for the country charts by Freddy Weller
    Aug 26, 1949
    Merry Christmas, a few months early: Ernest Tubb records "White Christmas" and "Blue Christmas" in an afternoon session at the Castle Studio in Nashville. It marks the first Tubb session for guitarist Billy Byrd, an essential Texas Troubadour
    Aug 27, 1949
    Guitarist/vocalist Jeff Cook is born in Fort Payne, Alabama. He founds the band Alabama with two cousins, grabbing multiple Entertainer of the Year awards on their way to the Country Music Hall of Fame 
    Aug 30, 1949
    Gene Autry's latest western, "Rim Of The Canyon," opens in New York. The ghost town tale also includes an appearance by his longtime associate Frankie Marvin
    Aug 30, 1949
    Hank Williams records "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," "My Bucket's Got A Hole In It" and "I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Livin'" during an afternoon session at the E.T. Herzog Studio in Cincinnati
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