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Apr 3, 1882
Outlaw Jesse James is shot and killed in St. Joseph, Missouri, by a fellow gang member. James will be namechecked in Toby Keith's "Should've Been A Cowboy," Trick Pony's "Just What I Do" and Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings' "There Ain't No Good Chain Gang"
Jul 4, 1882
Buffalo Bill Cody presents a Wild West show in North Platte, Nebraska. The concept serves as a precursor to the singing cowboys of Hollywood
Mar 18, 1883
Songwriter Maurice Abrahams is born in Russia. He co-writes "Ragtime Cowboy Joe," a song that appears in several western movies before becoming a country hit for Eddy Howard in 1947
Mar 2, 1884
Otto Gray is born in Stillwater, Oklahoma. His group, the Oklahoma Cowboys, helps establish the singing cowboy in the mid-1920s and graduates both Zeke Clements and Whitey Ford
Jun 15, 1892
Singer/songwriter Tex Owens is born in Killeen, Texas. He writes the cowboy classic "Cattle Call." He is a brother to Texas Ruby and father of Laura Lee McBride, the first female vocalist for Bob Wills' Texas Playboys
Dec 31, 1893
Bass player Pat Brady is born in Toledo, Ohio. In 1937, he replaces Roy Rogers as a member of the western harmony act The Sons Of The Pioneers. Brady is not part of the lineup that enters the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980
May 10, 1894
Dimitri Tiomkin is born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine. He becomes a major film composer, writing the scores for more than 100 pictures. He also co-writes the Oscar-winning theme to "High Noon," performed by Tex Ritter
Jul 25, 1894
Character actor Walter Brennan is born in Swampscott, Massachusetts. He appears in well over 150 movies, playing Grandpa in TV's "The Real McCoys." He also nets a pop and country hit with his 1962 recitation "Old Rivers"
Dec 20, 1894
Jim Ritter marries Lizzie Matthews in Carthage, Texas. Eleven years later, they produce a son: future Country Music Hall of Famer Tex Ritter
May 10, 1895
Carl T. Sprague is born near Alvin, Texas. In 1925, he records the first cowboy hit, "When The Work's All Done This Fall"
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