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Dec 20, 1944
Ignoring a recording ban by Canada's musicians' union, Hank Snow cuts the first of 18 songs over four days at Montreal's Victor Studio. They include one of his biggest Canadian hits, "You Played Love On The Strings Of My Heart"
Jun 20, 1945
Anne Murray is born in Springhill, Nova Scotia. Her warm, easy-going vocals snare a number of pop-slanted successes from 1970-1986, including "Snowbird," "You Needed Me," "Shadows In The Moonlight" and "A Little Good News"
Nov 12, 1945
Rock artist Neil Young is born at Toronto General Hospital in Ontario. A solo performer and member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, he writes Linda Ronstadt's country hit "Love Is A Rose" and Waylon Jennings' "Are You Ready For The Country"
Mar 5, 1946
Keyboard player Richard Bell is born in Toronto, Ontario. He appears on Janis Joplin's "Me And Bobby McGee," ranked among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
Dec 2, 1947
Hank Snow begins what prove to be his final Canadian sessions before his career shifts into the U.S., at the Victor Studio in Montreal
Nov 28, 1949
Keyboard player Paul Shaffer is born in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The leader of David Letterman's late-night TV band, he appears on Earl Scruggs' "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," a country track that wins a Grammy in 2002
Mar 1, 1950
Songwriter/producer/piano player David Foster is born in Victoria, British Columbia. A co-writer of Anne Murray's "Now And Forever (You And Me)," he produces Kenny Rogers and plays on hits by Kevin Sharp, Glen Campbell and Dolly Parton
Mar 10, 1950
Songwriter Don Devaney is born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He nets hits by authoring Charley Pride's "Someone Loves You Honey" and Highway 101's "Cry, Cry, Cry"
Sep 9, 1950
Four-year-old Neil Young, destined to write several country hits, gets his picture in a newspaper for the first time when The Toronto Telegram features a photo of the boy with a huge fish, giving a false impression that he actually caught it
Aug 31, 1951
Five-year-old Neil Young wakes up at his home in Omemee, Ontario, in pain. He is taken to a Toronto hospital, where he is diagnosed with polio
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