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Jun 17, 1931
Jimmie Rodgers records "Southern Cannonball" in Louisville, Kentucky
Jul 31, 1931
Billy Vaughn Holbrook is born in Boyd County, Kentucky. He is the father of Corky Holbrook, who plays bass on several Billy Ray Cyrus hits
Dec 7, 1931
Bobby Osborne is born in Hyden, Kentucky. With younger sibling Sonny, The Osborne Brothers become a major bluegrass duo, joining the Grand Ole Opry in 1964 and developing their signature song "Rocky Top"
Dec 30, 1931
Skeeter Davis is born in Dry Ridge, Kentucky. She earns her first hit as a 1953 duet partner of Betty Jack Davis, who dies in a car accident. Skeeter goes on to Grand Ole Opry membership and a solo career that peaks with the 1962 crossover single "The End Of The World"
Mar 4, 1932
Betty Jack Davis is born in Corbin, Kentucky. Along with Skeeter Davis, who is unrelated, she forms The Davis Sisters, but dies in a car crash just weeks before their only hit, "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know," reaches the national charts
Apr 14, 1932
Loretta Lynn is born in Butcher Holler, Kentucky. Noted for her honest songwriting, she becomes the first woman to win the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year award in 1972, landing in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988
Apr 15, 1932
Luke Gordon is born in Quincy, Kentucky. One of country's one-hit wonders, he gains his 15 minutes of fame with the 1958 release "Dark Hollow"
Jun 22, 1932
"I'll never forget that mournful day/When Uncle Pen was called away": Pendleton Vandiver, the subject of Bill Monroe's "Uncle Pen," dies with bronchitis and double pneumonia. Ricky Skaggs turns the bluegrass classic into a country hit in 1984
Dec 7, 1932
Singer/songwriter Hugh X. Lewis is born in Yeaddiss, Kentucky. He writes Stonewall Jackson's "B.J. The D.J." and appears in such films as "Forty-Acre Feud," "Gold Guitar" and "Cottonpickin' Chicken-Pluckers"
Jun 3, 1933
Geneva Ilene Glover is born in Sewellton, Kentucky. She becomes the mother of a country star, Steve Wariner
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