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  • Feb 12, 1925
    Actor Lorne Greene is born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He portrays Ben Cartwright in the long-running western TV series Bonanza, which features a theme song by guitarist Joe Maphis. Greene also records "Ringo," a western recitation
    Mar 19, 1927
    Frank Peppiatt is born in Toronto, Ontario. He co-creates and co-produces "Hee Haw," a long-running TV show that mixes country music and comedy
    Mar 4, 1928
    Record producer and executive Frank Jones is born in Toronto. He works with Columbia, Capitol, Mercury and Warner Bros., and co-produces such hits as John Anderson's "Swingin'," Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John," The Statler Brothers' "Flowers On The Wall" and Marty Robbins' "Devil Woman"
    Aug 18, 1929
    TV writer John Aylesworth is born in Toronto. He is a co-creator of the country comedy series "Hee Haw"
    Nov 5, 1930
    Bill Langstroth is born in Montreal, Quebec. He produces the Canadian TV show "Singalong Jubilee," where he hires Anne Murray, who will become his second wife
    Aug 23, 1931
    Songwriter Scott Turner is born in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He writes Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Hicktown" and Kay Adams' "Little Pink Mack"
    Dec 24, 1931
    Hank Snow brings his mother two rabbits for Christmas. His mother's husband threatens to kill Snow if he's still in the house by dinner time on Christmas Day
    Jan 19, 1933
    Stu Phillips is born in Montreal. In 1967 he joins Hank Snow as the only Canadian members of the Grand Ole Opry. He becomes a naturalized American citizen during the late-1990s
    Mar 14, 1933
    William Borrett, manager of Halifax radio station CHNS, writes Hank Snow's first rejection letter, declining to put The Singing Ranger on the air: "Unless a sponsor was to ask for you, we could not do anything for you"
    Sep 25, 1933
    Ian Tyson is born in British Columbia, Canada. The folk singer and rodeo cowboy writes Bobby Bare's "Four Strong Winds" and "Someday Soon," a Judy Collins pop recording that becomes a minor country hit for Moe Bandy in 1982 and for Suzy Bogguss in 1991

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