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    • Nov 1, 1945
    Gene Autry records "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You" and "Silver Spurs (On The Golden Stairs)" at the CBS Studios in Los Angeles
    Nov 2, 1945
    Singer/songwriter J.D. Souther is born in Detroit, Michigan. Best known for his 1979 hit "You're Only Lonely," he also writes Glen Campbell's 1984 country hit "Faithless Love" and The Eagles' "Heartache Tonight," covered by Conway Twitty in 1983
    Nov 3, 1945
    Jimmy Wakely and Lee "Lasses" White star in "Riders Of The Dawn," a western featuring Wesley Tuttle and Fiddlin' Arthur Smith. Songs include Spade Cooley's "Shame On You," Johnny Bond's "Tomorrow Never Comes" and Jimmie Rodgers' "Sleep, Baby, Sleep"
    Nov 3, 1945
    James Wagner dies in a plane crash in the Berkshire Mountains near Wingdale, New York. Wagner is the biological father of the future Priscilla Presley
    Nov 5, 1945
    Columbia releases Gene Autry's double-sided hit, "Don't Live A Lie" backed with "I Want To Be Sure"
    Nov 7, 1945
    Gene Autry returns to a Los Angeles courtroom, contending his Republic movie contract should be voided. The studio maintains he owes three more years to make up for the period in which he was enlisted with the Army
    Nov 7, 1945
    Buddy Johnson records the original version of "Since I Fell For You," a country hit for Charlie Rich 30 years later
    Nov 7, 1945
    Tex Williams provides musical support for Buster Crabbe with the debut of the western movie "Prairie Rustlers"
    Nov 9, 1945
    Country bluesman Frank Hutchison dies. Among the first to record with a harmonica rack, he cut just 32 songs. One, "Stackalee," ranks among the 500 greatest country singles of all-time in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number"
    Nov 10, 1945
    Yvonne Vaughn is born in Mount Airy, North Carolina. Under the name Donna Fargo, she becomes a significant singer/songwriter during the 1970s, earning back-to-back million-sellers with "The Happiest Girl In The Whole U.S.A." and "Funny Face"
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