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Jun 8, 1939
The Coon Creek Girls become the first country act to perform at the White House, when Franklin D. Roosevelt hosts England's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
Mar 3, 1940
Woody Guthrie joins Lead Belly, Will Geer and Alan Lomax, among others, to perform at a labor union fundraiser at New York's Forrest Theater attended by Pete Seeger. The show helps launch Guthrie to prominence as a singer/songwriter
Jul 4, 1940
The Louvin Brothers make their performing debut in Flatrock, Alabama
Sep 6, 1940
Guitarist Clyde Moody joins Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, performing in Bluefield, West Virginia. Moody remains a band member for the next four years, playing mandolin on "Mule Skinner Blues"
Jan 1, 1941
Minnie Pearl goes on her first tour with Roy Acuff, playing Evansville, Indiana, as part of a package that also features Eddy Arnold and Pee Wee King
May 19, 1941
At a Bob Wills concert at Tulsa's Cain's Academy, Betty Anderson requests "You Are My Sunshine" at the bandstand. It's their first meeting, and it becomes "their song" by the time they marry the following year
Jul 26, 1941
Bobby Hebb, celebrating his third birthday, gives his first public performance at the Bijou Theatre in Nashville. He will record a version of "Night Train To Memphis" that will be considered one of the 500 greatest country singles in the 2003 Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
Jul 4, 1942
Gene Autry performs at Chicago's Soldier Field, his last concert appearance for three years, thanks to his voluntary enlistment in the U.S. Army
Oct 7, 1942
Roy Rogers and The Sons Of The Pioneers begin a string of 26 performances at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo in New York
Dec 31, 1942
Ernest Tubb brings in the new year in Gadsden, Alabama, receiving $150, his highest pay at the time. He shares the bill with Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys, including Eddy Arnold
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