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    • Dec 25, 1916
    Three-year-old Wade Ray receives a "cigar-box" fiddle for Christmas in Arkansas, setting him on a career path as a musician. He works with such artists as Ernest Tubb, Roy Rogers, Ray Price, Rex Allen and Tennessee Ernie Ford
    Aug 8, 1938
    Webb Pierce receives a $5 guitar from his mother for his 12th birthday. In exchange, he promises not to bang on the buckets while he retrieves water from a nearby spring
    Jan 30, 1940
    First lady Eleanor Roosevelt appears on Gene Autry's CBS Radio show "Melody Ranch" as Autry broadcasts live from Washington, D.C., at president Franklin D. Roosevelt's fifth Birthday Ball. Autry gifts the president a Stetson hat
    Sep 8, 1940
    Patsy Cline receives a piano for her eighth birthday
    Feb 26, 1942
    Johnny Cash receives a guitar from his mother for his 10th birthday
    Apr 23, 1942
    On his sixth birthday, Roy Orbison receives his first guitar. The first song he learns: "You Are My Sunshine"
    Dec 10, 1942
    Roy Ayres receives a resonator guitar for his 13th birthday. He goes on to join Pee Wee King's Golden West Cowboys
    Dec 25, 1942
    Buck Owens receives a mandolin for Christmas and teaches himself to play
    Dec 25, 1942
    Mel Tillis' family gets a Majestic Radio for Christmas. Tillis begins listening regularly to the Grand Ole Opry
    Jan 8, 1946
    For his 11th birthday, Elvis Presley receives an $8 guitar



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