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    • Dec 8, 1947
    Gregg Allman, of The Allman Brothers Band, is born in Nashville. The southern-rock singer and keyboard player will write "Midnight Rider," remade as a 1980 country hit by Willie Nelson
    Dec 8, 1945
    Ernest Tubb reaches the top spot on the Billboard country singles chart with "It's Been So Long Darling"
    Dec 8, 1945
    Fiddlin' Arthur Smith lets loose on "Orange Blossom Special" in the debut of "The Lonesome Trail." The western movie stars Jimmy Wakely, plus Lee "Lasses" White, Mary Ford, guitarist Jack Rivers and Texas Playboy Jesse Ashlock
    Dec 8, 1945
    Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs perform together on the Grand Ole Opry for the first time as members of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. The moment at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium is regarded as the birth of bluegrass
    Dec 8, 1942
    Filming ends on the movie "Riding West," in Los Angeles. The picture features Ernest Tubb, Johnny Bond and Wesley Tuttle
    Dec 8, 1941
    The day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tommy Duncan announces he's leaving Bob Wills' Texas Playboys to join the war
    Dec 8, 1939
    Eddie Dean plays a bad guy with the movie debut of "The Llano Kid"
    Dec 8, 1939
    The Sons Of The Pioneers deliver their traditional "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" with the debut of the Charles Starrett western "The Stranger From Texas"
    Dec 8, 1939
    Grandpa Jones has a daughter, Marsha Marie Jones, with his first wife, the former Eulalia Marie Losher
    Dec 8, 1938
    The Sons Of The Pioneers sing "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" in the debut of the Charles Starrett western "Rio Grande"
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