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    • Apr 1, 1945
    Drummer John Barbata is born in New Jersey. He replaces original member Don Murray in the pop band The Turtles, appearing on the 1967 hit "Happy Together." The song is remade for the country market in 1978 by T.G. Sheppard
    Apr 1, 1945
    Drummer Kenny Buttrey is born in Nashville. He plays on Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville," as well as music by Waylon Jennings, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Oak Ridge Boys and Hank Locklin, among others
    Apr 1, 1945
    American forces begin the three-month World War II battle for Okinawa. Among the servicemen is teenager Jerry Clower
    Apr 4, 1945
    Actress Caroline McWilliams is born in Seattle. Her marriage to fellow actor Michael Keaton produces a songwriter son, Sean Douglas, who pens Thomas Rhett's "Die A Happy Man" and Dan + Shay's "I Should Probably Go To Bed"
    Apr 4, 1945
    Al Dexter and his Troopers record "Honey Do You Think It's Wrong"
    Apr 4, 1945
    Bob and Betty Wills have a son, James Robert Wills II, in Santa Monica
    Apr 5, 1945
    Al Dexter records "Wine, Women And Song" in Hollywood
    Apr 9, 1945
    After receiving his third induction notice from the military, Woody Guthrie reports for a physical. He eventually enters the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
    Apr 9, 1945
    Con Hunley is born in Luttrell, Tennessee. The R&B-influenced singer nabs 11 Top 20 singles in the late-1970s and early-'80s without cracking the Top 10
    Apr 9, 1945
    Gus Hardin is born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A tough-voiced club singer, she rises to prominence in the mid-1980s, earning Top 10 releases with "After The Last Goodbye" and a duet with Earl Thomas Conley, "All Tangled Up In Love"
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