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    • Jul 9, 1890
    Songwriter Hy Heath is born in Oakville, Tennessee. His credits include Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Mule Train," Ray Price's "Run Boy," Louis Jordan's "Deacon Jones" and Hank Williams' "Take These Chains From My Heart"
    Aug 4, 1890
    Carson Robison is born in Oswego, Kansas. He becomes a significant singer and songwriter, specializing in songs that build on topics from the news. He scores two novelty hits in the 1940s: "Hitler's Letter To Hirohito" and "Life Gits Tee-Jus Don't It"
    Oct 2, 1890
    Comedian Groucho Marx is born in New York, New York. One of his one-liners inspires David Bellamy to write The Bellamy Brothers' hit "If I Said You Have A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me"
    May 14, 1891
    Pop songwriter Grant Clarke is born in Akron, Ohio. He collaborates on "Ragtime Cowboy Joe," a 1947 country hit for pop singer Eddy Howard
    Jun 9, 1891
    Pop songwriter Cole Porter is born in Peru, Indiana. Noted for such classics as "I Get A Kick Out Of You," "Begin The Beguine" and "I've Got You Under My Skin," Porter also writes "Don't Fence Me In," a country hit for Gene Autry
    Jun 10, 1891
    Pop songwriter Al Dubin is born in Zurich, Switzerland. Best known for writing "I Only Have Eyes For You," he also earns country hits with Jo Stafford's "Feudin' And Fightin'" and T. Texas Tyler's "Memories Of France"
    Oct 30, 1891
    Clifton Clowers is born in Conway, Arkansas. His nephew, Merle Kilgore, later makes him the subject of a hit he writes for Claude King, "Wolverton Mountain"
    Nov 12, 1891
    Songwriter Richard Whiting is born in Peoria, Illinois. In addition to "Hooray For Hollywood," "On The Good Ship Lollipop" and "Ain't We Got Fun," he pens The Hoosier Hot Shots' "Breezin' Along With The Breeze"
    Dec 15, 1891
    A.P. Carter is born in Maces Spring, Virginia. With his wife, Sara, and her cousin, Maybelle, The Carter Family becomes a pioneering force in country music, entering the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970. A.P. writes much of their material, including "Keep On The Sunny Side," "Wildwood Flower" and "Will The Circle Be Unbroken"
    Feb 17, 1892
    Pop songwriter James F. Hanley is born in Rensselaer, Indiana. The author of numerous Broadway scores in the 1920s, his song "Second Hand Rose" is reprised by Roy Drusky for the country audience in 1962



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