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Nov 28, 1947
Keyboard player Reese Wynans is born in Pennsylvania. He becomes a member of Stevie Ray Vaughan's band, Double Trouble, then shifts into Nashville session work, playing on hits by John Michael Montgomery, Heidi Newfield and Lee Roy Parnell
May 18, 1948
Joe Bonsall is born in Philadelphia. In 1973, the ex-gang member becomes a tenor singer in the gospel quartet The Oak Ridge Boys, who soon shift into country music, using him as a lead voice on such hits as "Elvira," "Bobbie Sue" and "Love Song." The Oaks join the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2015
Jul 10, 1948
ABC's "Hayloft Hoedown" debuts from Town Hall in Philadelphia. The half-hour Saturday night broadcast is one of the first country shows on network TV, with Wesley Tuttle its best-known regular. It lasts just two months
Sep 1, 1948
Drummer Russ Kunkel is born in Pittsburgh. He plays on country hits by Reba McEntire, Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton, plus pop hits by James Taylor, Jackson Browne and Stevie Nicks, among others
Sep 18, 1948
"Hayloft Hoedown" ends an 11-week run on ABC-TV. One of the first network shows to feature country music, the program aired from Town Hall in Philadelphia, with Wesley Tuttle the best-known performer in its weekly cast
Feb 22, 1949
Songwriter Dave Hanner is born in Kittanning, Pennsylvania. A member of The Corbin/Hanner Band, he scores his largest successes as a songwriter on Don Williams' "Lord I Hope This Day Is Good" and The Oak Ridge Boys' "Beautiful You"
Jun 9, 1950
Pop songwriter Joe Burke dies of a heart attack in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. The author of "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" and "Rambling Rose," he also wrote the 1925 hit "Oh, How I Miss You Tonight," destined to be a 1979 country duet for Deborah Allen and Jim Reeves
Jul 4, 1950
Songwriter Larry Herbstritt is born in Coudersport, Pennsylvania. He charts high in country music as a writer of Ronnie Milsap's "Cowboys And Clowns" and Anne Murray's "I Just Fall In Love Again"
Dec 28, 1950
Bass player Hugh McDonald is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A session player for Willie Nelson, Michael Bolton and Ricky Martin, he's generally regarded as an unofficial member of Bon Jovi, appearing on the band's 2006 country hit "Who Says You Can't Go Home"
Mar 16, 1951
Ray Benson is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He forms Asleep At The Wheel, which emerges as the strongest modern advocate for western swing. The group wins multiple Grammys but earns just one hit, "The Letter That Johnny Walker Read"
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