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Nov 25, 1949
Tap dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson dies of heart failure in New York City. His nickname is later borrowed by a homeless man whose jailhouse encounter with singer/songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker inspires "Mr. Bojangles," the first Nitty Gritty Dirt Band hit
Nov 25, 1947
Merle Travis records "Crazy Boogie" at Hollywood's Radio Recorders
Nov 25, 1946
Johnny Bond records "Divorce Me C.O.D." and "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed" at the Columbia Studios in Hollywood
Nov 25, 1943
Decca releases Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five's double-sided hit: "Ration Blues" backed with "Deacon Jones." Both titles appear on the Billboard folk list, a predecessor to the country charts
Nov 25, 1940
Three months after he began appearing on "Back Where I Come From," Woody Guthrie receives his own CBS Radio show, "Pipe Smoking Time." Within a month, he abandons the show
Nov 25, 1933
Steel guitarist Kayton Roberts is born in Ona, Florida. Beginning in 1968, he spends 31 years as a member of Hank Snow's road band, the Rainbow Ranch Boys
Nov 25, 1932
Songwriter Glenn Reeves is born in Shamrock, Texas. He writes Faron Young's 1957 single "I'm Gonna Live Some Before I Die"
Nov 25, 1929
The Carter Family records "Jimmie Brown The Newsboy" in a four-song morning session at the Atlanta Women's Club
Nov 25, 1929
Jimmie Rodgers records "Mississippi River Blues" and "Nobody Knows Me But Me" at the Atlanta Women's Club in Georgia
Nov 25, 1926
"Blue Skies" songwriter Irving Berlin and his wife, Ellin, have their first child, Mary Ellin Berlin, in Brooklyn
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