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  • Jul 24, 1908
    Jazz trumpet player Cootie Williams is born in Mobile, Alabama. He makes an appearance on Billboard's folk chart--later to evolve into the country charts--in 1944 with his recording of "Red Blues"
    Sep 15, 1985
    Charles "Cootie" Williams dies in New York City. A jazz trumpet player, his 1944 single "Red Blues" made an unlikely entry onto the Billboard folk hit parade, an early version of the magazine's country charts
    Sep 11, 2007
    Sony releases the TV soundtrack to "The War: A Ken Burns Film." It features Al Dexter's "Pistol Packin' Mama" along with music by Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Kay Starr, Cootie Williams, Tommy Dorsey and the Nat King Cole Trio, among others

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