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    • May 29, 1930
    Music executive Lou Robin is born in Chicago. Beginning in 1973, he spends 30 years as the manager for Johnny Cash & June Carter
    Dec 30, 1930
    Steel guitarist Orville "Red" Rhodes is born in East Alton, Illinois. He wins four Academy of Country Music Awards as a musician in the 1960s and '70s
    Nov 4, 1931
    Trumpeter Louis Armstrong records his version of Hoagy Carmichael's "Star Dust," one of several recordings of the song to become a pop hit, in Chicago. The song emerges in 1978 as the title of Willie Nelson's landmark standards album
    Dec 1, 1931
    Gene Autry begins a stint on WLS Radio in Chicago, with his own show "Conqueror Record Time." He remains with the station three years before moving to California
    Mar 19, 1932
    WLS Radio's "National Barn Dance" moves to Chicago's Eighth Street Theater, a venue it will call home for the next 25 years
    Apr 5, 1932
    Robert Hulseman is born in Chicago. Employed at the Solo company, he invents a drinking aid that's hailed in Toby Keith's 2011 country hit "Red Solo Cup"
    Feb 3, 1933
    Betty Foley is born in Chicago, the daughter of Red Foley. She joins her father in the 1950s on two duets, "As Far As I'm Concerned" and "Satisfied Mind," and scores a 1959 hit on her own, with "Old Moon"
    Mar 14, 1933
    Quincy Jones is born in Chicago. A jazz figure and R&B producer, he produces the USA For Africa single, "We Are The World," including appearances by country stars Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings
    Apr 9, 1933
    Broadway singer Paula Stewart is born in Chicago. She's destined to become the first wife of Burt Bacharach, who earns country hits as the songwriter of such titles as "Only Love Can Break A Heart," "The Story Of My Life" and "Any Day Now"
    Jul 28, 1933
    The Girls Of The Golden West hold their first recording session, for the Bluebird label, in Chicago, Illinois. The date includes a cover of Gene Autry's "That Silver-Haired Daddy Of Mine"
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