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    • Jun 24, 1900
    Pop vocalist Gene Austin is born in Gainesville, Texas. The most popular singer preceding the Great Depression, he earns a 1928 hit with "Ramona," which Billy Walker remakes as a country hit in 1968
    Jan 30, 1925
    Aileen Stanley & Gene Austin record the pop hit "When My Sugar Walks Down The Street" in New York City. Ella Fitzgerald's version of the song will reach an early version of Billboard's country chart in 1944
    Sep 14, 1927
    Pop singer Gene Austin records "My Blue Heaven" in New York City. The song is referenced 50 years later when Mel Tillis records the country hit "Ain't No California"
    Jun 26, 1928
    Gene Austin records the pop hit "Memories Of France" in Camden, New Jersey. The song is remade as a country hit by T. Texas Tyler in 1948
    Jul 4, 1928
    Jimmie Rodgers has a Fourth of July picnic on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., aboard a $25,000 yacht owned by pop singer Gene Austin
    Jul 30, 1929
    Gene Austin records "Ain't Misbehavin'" in New York City. The pop hit will be refashioned as a country single by Hank Williams Jr. in 1986
    Jan 24, 1972
    Pop singer Gene Austin dies at Desert Hospital in Palm Springs, California. Hugely popular in the late 1920s, he earned major hits with 1927's "My Blue Heaven" and 1928's "Ramona." The latter was remade as a country hit in 1968 by Billy Walker
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