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May 22, 1887
Olympic track and field star Jim Thorpe is born in Prague, Oklahoma. His name appears in the lyrics of The Statler Brothers' 1977 country hit "The Movies"
Nov 11, 1887
Guitarist Burt Hutcherson is born in Williamson County, Tennessee. He joins The Gully Jumpers, a stringband that plays on the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years beginning in 1927. The group is also the first act to hold a recording session for Victor Records in Nashville
Nov 20, 1887
Eck Robertson is born in Delaney, Arkansas. In 1922, the fiddler joins his friend Henry Gilliland to record 12 sides in New York for the Victor label, making them the first performers to record country music
Feb 6, 1888
Songwriter Haven Gillespie is born in Covington, Kentucky. In addition to the holiday standard "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town," he writes The Hoosier Hot Shots' "Breezin' Along With The Breeze" and the western-swing classic "Right Or Wrong"
Feb 15, 1888
Songwriter Lawrence Wright is born in Leicester, England. Using the name Horatio Nicholls, he pens hundreds of songs, including "Among My Souvenirs," a 1976 country hit for Marty Robbins
May 11, 1888
Pop songwriter Irving Berlin is born in Temun, Russia. He earns country hits when Willie Nelson records his song "Blue Skies" and Ernest Tubb covers "White Christmas." Among Berlin's Broadway successes is "Annie, Get Your Gun"
Aug 28, 1888
Lee "Lasses" White is born in Wills Point, Texas. He joins the Grand Ole Opry as half of the blackface comedy team Lasses & White, moving into movies in 1938
Nov 11, 1888
Blind fiddler Gilliam Banmon "G.B." Grayson is born in Ashe County, North Carolina. His 1927 recording "Ommie Wise" appears on the Smithsonian Institute's "Anthology Of American Folk Music" and is named in a Country Music Foundation book among country's 500 greatest singles
Dec 15, 1888
Playwright Maxwell Anderson is born in Atlantic, Pennsylvania. He co-writes "September Song," which becomes a hit for Willie Nelson in 1979
Jan 20, 1889
Huddie Ledbetter is born near Mooringsport, Louisiana. Under the name Lead Belly, he becomes a major blues figure. His song "Goodnight Irene" becomes a country hit twice in 1950, for Moon Mullican, and for Ernest Tubb & Red Foley
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