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Dec 1, 1955
African-American Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to a white male. A landmark moment in the civil rights movement, the act is referenced in Brad Paisley's 2009 country hit "Welcome To The Future"
Dec 1, 1955
Eddy Arnold records "You Don't Know Me" at New York's Webster Hall
Dec 1, 1954
Fred Rose dies in Nashville of a heart attack. Rose founded Acuff-Rose Publishing with Roy Acuff, produced Hank Williams and wrote "Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain." He is one of the first inductees in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
Dec 1, 1954
Uncle Dave Macon's career is commemorated with a marker on U.S. Highway 70, near Woodbury, Tennessee
Dec 1, 1952
Margaret Morton is born in San Matea, California. In 1978, she marries "Love Is A Rose" songwriter Neil Young, her husband for 36 years
Dec 1, 1952
Capitol releases Ferlin Husky's first version of "Gone," credited to Terry Preston
Dec 1, 1952
Decca releases Goldie Hill's first hit, "I Let The Stars Get In My Eyes"
Dec 1, 1952
Capitol releases Faron Young's first hit, "Goin' Steady"
Dec 1, 1951
Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys take over the #1 position on the Billboard country singles chart with "Slow Poke"
Dec 1, 1951
Slim Whitman records "Indian Love Call" at the KWKH Studio in Shreveport, Louisiana. The song was introduced in the 1930s by Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in the movie "Rose Marie"
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