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    • Feb 17, 1951
    Eddy Arnold reaches #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with "There's Been A Change In Me"
    Feb 17, 1951
    Zeb Turner records "Chew Tobacco Rag" at the King Recording Studio in Cincinnati
    Feb 17, 1949
    Atlantic releases Stick McGhee's "Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee." Jerry Lee Lewis sings the song nine months later in his first public performance
    Feb 17, 1947
    Porter Wagoner begins a three-year stint at the International Shoe Company manufacturing plant in West Plains, Missouri, for 57.5 cents per hour
    Feb 17, 1946
    Louisiana governor Jimmie Davis arrives in Hollywood to negotiate a movie deal
    Feb 17, 1943
    Red Sovine has a son, Roger Sovine, in Eleanor, West Virginia. Roger becomes a significant executive with performing rights organization BMI
    Feb 17, 1942
    Ray Whitley, Lee "Lasses" White and fiddler Spade Cooley all appear as "Riding The Wind" debuts in theaters, with songs written by Fred Rose
    Feb 17, 1942
    Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes, The Sons Of The Pioneers and Spade Cooley are all featured in the debut of the western mining adventure "South Of Santa Fe"
    Feb 17, 1942
    Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger are branded among several other performers as Communists by the New York World-Telegram
    Feb 17, 1940
    Gene Pitney is born in Hartford, Connecticut. The pop singer, known for his 1960 hit "Only Love Can Break A Heart," records with George Jones and Melba Montgomery, and writes Rick Nelson's "Hello Mary Lou," covered by The Statler Brothers in 1985
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