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Oct 16, 1947
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys record "Texarkana Baby" in Chicago
Oct 23, 1947
Beechcraft delivers a single-engine plane to the Butler Company of Chicago. Nearly a dozen years later, the plane crashes, killing Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper, who had taken Waylon Jennings' seat
Oct 27, 1947
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, including Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, record "Sweetheart, You Done Me Wrong," "It's Mighty Dark To Travel" and "Blue Grass Breakdown" in Chicago
Oct 28, 1947
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, featuring Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, record "Little Community Church" and "When You Are Lonely" in Chicago
Nov 18, 1947
Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys record "Unloved And Unclaimed" and "This World Can't Stand Long" at radio station WBBM in Chicago
Nov 19, 1947
Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys record "The Waltz Of The Wind" and "A Sinner's Death" at radio station WBBM in Chicago
Nov 23, 1947
Donald McEnaney, an eight-year-old leukemia patient in Chicago, receives a phone call from his idol, Gene Autry, who sings "Feudin' And Fightin'" to the kid
Dec 2, 1947
Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys record "Tennessee Waltz" in Chicago at RCA Studio A
Dec 12, 1947
Irving Azoff is born in Danville, Illinois. He parlays management of The Eagles and Jimmy Buffett into a significant executive career that sees him run MCA Records, Giant Records, Ticketmaster and the Live Nation concert business
Jan 2, 1948
Songwriter Mark Fisher dies in Long Lake, Illinois. He wrote the pop standard "Oh, How I Miss You Tonight," which will become a 1979 country hit as a duet that matches Deborah Allen with the late Jim Reeves
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