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    • Sep 4, 1942
    Merald "Bubba" Knight, of Gladys Knight & The Pips, is born in Atlanta. The Pips have a pop hit with "Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye)" at the same time Bob Luman has a country version. The Pips also remake Ray Price's "Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me"
    May 21, 1943
    Bass player Robert "Tarp" Tarrant is born in Adel, Georgia. He becomes a member of Jerry Lee Lewis' band, where he gains a certain infamy. He's among three band members arrested for narcotics in 1965, and he does time for robbing a 7-11
    Aug 16, 1943
    Kin Vassy is born in Atlanta, Georgia. A member of Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, he also provides backing vocals on a number of Rogers' solo hits, including "Morning Desire," "I Don't Need You" and "Love Will Turn You Around"
    Sep 24, 1943
    Emmett Miller marries Bernice Calhoun in Macon, Georgia. The black-faced performer influenced Jimmie Rodgers and made the first recording of "Lovesick Blues," later associated with Hank Williams
    Mar 14, 1944
    John Pink Miller, the father of Emmett Miller, dies in Macon, Georgia. Emmett Miller was a vaudevillian who greatly influenced Jimmie Rodgers
    May 28, 1944
    R&B singer Gladys Knight is born in Atlanta. She and Bob Luman have simultaneous hits with "Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye)," while she covers Ray Price's version of "Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me"
    Dec 11, 1944
    Brenda Lee is born at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Little Miss Dynamite becomes a major pop artist as a teenager in the 1960s but shifts into country music in the 1970s. She ends up in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997
    Dec 24, 1944
    Record executive Mike Curb is born in Savannah, Georgia. Curb produces some of Hank Williams Jr.'s early hits, and founds Curb Records, whose successes include Tim McGraw, LeAnn Rimes, Wynonna and Lee Brice
    Dec 25, 1944
    Record producer Emory Gordy Jr. is born in Atlanta. The bass player on Elvis Presley's "Burning Love," he goes on to produce his wife, Patty Loveless, plus Alabama, Aaron Tippin, Steve Earle and The Bellamy Brothers, among others
    Apr 12, 1945
    President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies of a stroke in Warm Springs, Georgia. After guiding the government through the Depression, he's remembered in the 1989 Alabama hit "Song Of The South"
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