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    • Sep 17, 1901
    The American Federation of Musicians establishes a Chicago local. The city provides a recording site for Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow, Eddy Arnold, Red Foley, Bob Wills and Pee Wee King, among others
    Dec 5, 1901
    Walt Disney is born in Chicago. The entertainment mogul, creator of Mickey Mouse and Disneyland, builds a huge conglomerate which yields the Lyric Street label in the 1990s. The company develops hits for Aaron Tippin, Rascal Flatts and SHeDAISY
    Sep 22, 1903
    Songwriter Fred Glickman is born in Chicago. He co-writes "Mule Train," a pop hit for Frankie Laine and a country hit for Tennessee Ernie Ford
    Aug 7, 1904
    Record executive Dave Kapp is born in Chicago, Illinois. He works with Decca in the country field and forms his own Kapp label, affecting such artists as Milton Brown, Ernest Tubb, Mel Tillis and Bob Wills
    Jul 19, 1906
    Harry "Tiny" Hill is born in Sullivan Township, Illinois. Earning his nickname by carrying 350 pounds on his frame, Hill develops a series of hits from the 1930s-50s
    Nov 10, 1908
    Record producer Paul Cohen is born in Chicago, Illinois. In 1934, he joins Decca Records, where the label signs such acts as Ernest Tubb, Webb Pierce and Patsy Cline, earning him a 1976 entry into the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Jan 1, 1909
    Multi-instrumentalist Frank Kettering is born in Monmouth, Illinois. He co-founds the comedic "WLS Barn Dance" quartet The Hoosier Hot Shots, who score a trio of hits in the mid-1940s and appear in a string of westerns. He leaves the band in 1944
    Apr 6, 1909
    Denver Darling is born in Whopock, Illinois. Appearing on New York radio as a cowboy personality, he writes "Silver Stars, Purple Sage, Eyes Of Blue," which becomes a 1947 hit for Cliffie Stone
    Jun 14, 1909
    Burl Ives is born in Hunt, Illinois. The folk singer--and narrator of TV's "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer"--registers five country hits during his career, including "A Little Bitty Tear" and "Funny Way Of Laughin'"
    Sep 11, 1910
    Left-handed guitarist Jack Shook is born in Decatur, Illinois. He becomes a busy session player during the 1940s and '50s, backing such acts as Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams, Johnny Horton, Hank Snow and Eddy Arnold
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