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Mar 22, 1892
Charlie Poole is born in Randolph County, North Carolina. The vocalist and banjo player leads The North Carolina Ramblers, who have a successful five-year recording tenure, beginning with Columbia Records in the 1920s
May 8, 1892
Jimmie Tarlton is born in Chesterfield County, South Carolina. He becomes one-half of Darby & Tarlton, a blues-influenced country duo that scores major hits in the 1920s with "Birmingham Jail" and "Columbus Stockade Blues"
May 22, 1892
Ralph Sylvester Peer is born in Kansas City, Missouri. A 1984 inductee in the Country Music Hall of Fame, he discovers, produces and manages a number of country's first major stars, particularly Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family
Jun 15, 1892
Singer/songwriter Tex Owens is born in Killeen, Texas. He writes the cowboy classic "Cattle Call." He is a brother to Texas Ruby and father of Laura Lee McBride, the first female vocalist for Bob Wills' Texas Playboys
Jul 6, 1892
Lyricist Jack Yellen is born in Poland. He writes The Blue Sky Boys' "Are You From Dixie?" and Red Foley's "Alabama Jubilee"
Sep 19, 1892
Pop songwriter Fred Ahlert is born in New York, New York. He writes "I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)," which is recorded by The Andrews Sisters, Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey before eventually becoming a country hit for Marty Robbins in 1977
Sep 20, 1892
Songwriter Roy Turk is born in New York, New York. He writes Elvis Presley's "Are You Lonesome To-night?" and Marty Robbins' "I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)"
Oct 30, 1892
Body-building specialist Charles Atlas is born in Acri, Italy. Creating a niche with a program that promises to transform the "97-pound weakling" into a muscle man, he's hailed in The Statler Brothers' 1972 hit "Do You Remember These"
Apr 18, 1893
Songwriter Georges Boulanger is born in Tulcea, Romania. He co-writes The Platters' "My Prayer," which also becomes a Top 15 country hit for Narvel Felts
May 25, 1893
Ernest "Pop" Stoneman is born in Monarat, Virginia. Among country's first successful recording artists in the 1920s, he later builds a band, The Stoneman Family, ultimately entering the Country Music Hall of Fame
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