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    • May 25, 1877
    Pop singer Billy Murray is born in Philadelphia. He launches "Are You From Dixie (Cause I'm From Dixie Too)" onto the hit parade in 1916. Jerry Reed turns it into a country hit in 1969
    May 25, 1878
    Tap dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson is born in Richmond, Virginia. His nickname is appropriated by a homeless man whose antics in jail inspire Jerry Jeff Walker to write "Mr. Bojangles," the first hit by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    Mar 14, 1879
    Scientist Albert Einstein is born in Ulm, Germany. He will be referenced nearly a century later in the Jerry Reed country hit "The Crude Oil Blues"
    Nov 4, 1879
    Comedian Will Rogers is born in Oologah, Oklahoma. Known for his homespun observations and political humor, the star who "never met a man I didn't like" is referenced in Tex Ritter's 1961 hit "I Dreamed Of A Hill-Billy Heaven"
    Dec 7, 1879
    Pop songwriter Rudolf Friml is born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Two songs he writes for Broadway--"Indian Love Call" and "Rose Marie"--emerge as country hits for Slim Whitman during the 1950s
    Jan 6, 1880
    Actor Tom Mix is born in Mix Run, Pennsylvania. He becomes one of the first western film stars and will be cited in The Statler Brothers' 1977 country hit "The Movies"
    Jan 26, 1880
    General Douglas MacArthur is born in Little Rock, Arkansas. He gives a speech in 1951 that inspires Gene Autry to write the country hit "Old Soldiers Never Die"
    Jun 15, 1880
    Blues singer Blind Alfred Reed is born in Floyd, Virginia. In 2003, his performance of "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live" is named among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number"
    Aug 24, 1880
    Herb Yates is born in Brooklyn, New York. He founds Republic Pictures, which releases a series of B-western movies starring Gene Autry and Roy Rogers
    Aug 15, 1881
    Broadway composer Ted Snyder is born in Freeport, Illinois. His credits include Milton Brown & His Brownies' "Who's Sorry Now?," hailed among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"



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