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    • Jul 18, 1910
    Keyboard player Lou Busch is born in Louisville, Kentucky. Under the stage name Joe "Fingers" Carr, he provides instrumental support for Tennessee Ernie Ford on the 1951 country hit "Tailor Made Woman"
    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
    Jan 3, 1950
    "Slipping Around" singer Margaret Whiting marries piano player Lou Busch, known professionally as Joe "Fingers" Carr, in Chihuahua, Mexico. Neither party has actually divorced his or her previous spouse
    Mar 1, 1950
    Piano player Joe "Fingers" Carr is divorced from actress Janet Blair. She tells the judge her husband would rather stay at the golf course for hours on end than come home to her cooking
    Aug 19, 1950
    One day after her divorce from television executive Hubbell Robinson was finalized, "Slipping Around" singer Margaret Whiting marries piano player Joe "Fingers" Carr a second time in Guadalupe, Mexico
    Oct 11, 1950
    Pop/country singer Margaret Whiting and piano player Lou Busch--a.k.a. Joe "Fingers" Carr--have a daughter, Deborah Louise Busch
    Mar 17, 1953
    Pop singer Margaret Whiting and piano player Joe "Fingers" Carr are officially separated. They each enjoyed country hits during their three-year marriage
    Dec 15, 1953
    "Slipping Around" singer Margaret Whiting is awarded an uncontested divorce from piano player Joe "Fingers" Carr in Santa Monica, California, on the grounds of cruelty. She claims he threw dishes at her in a fit of rage
    Sep 19, 1979
    Joe "Fingers" Carr dies in a car accident near his home in Camarillo, California. The former husband of Margaret Whiting, he shared billing with Tennessee Ernie Ford on the 1951 country hit "Tailor Made Woman"
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