Apr 17, 1947

Harmonica player Jimmie Riddle, a member of Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys, marries Susie Gusler

Jul 19, 1947

Film composer and conductor Lionel Newman weds Beverly Carroll. Seven years into their marriage, he nets a country hit with Tennessee Ernie Ford's version of his song "River Of No Return"

Aug 15, 1947

Jerry Clower marries Homerline Wells at Eastfork Baptist Church in Mississippi

Sep 3, 1947

Jim Reeves marries Mary White at a Methodist Church in Carthage, Texas

Dec 31, 1947

Roy Rogers marries Dale Evans at the Flying L Ranch in Murray County, Oklahoma. Rogers is late for the ceremony, delayed when he puts out a fire started by a cigarette butt in another room

Jan 10, 1948

Loretta Webb marries Oliver "Mooney" Lynn in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, officially becoming Loretta Lynn. He gives her her first guitar, becomes her first manager, and inspires many of her feisty domestic songs

Jan 13, 1948

Buck Owens marries background vocalist Bonnie Campbell--four months pregnant with their son, Buddy Alan--in Phoenix

Mar 28, 1948

Nat "King" Cole marries the former Marie Hawkins at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. They have a daughter, Natalie Cole, who will become a Country Music Association awards nominee

Apr 14, 1948

Hank Thompson marries Dorothy Jean Ray on stage at Dallas' Arcadia Theater

Apr 18, 1948

Earl Scruggs marries Louise Certain in Gaffney, South Carolina, two months after leaving Bill Monroe's band. She becomes the manager of Flatt & Scruggs