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    • Aug 12, 1912
    Singer/songwriter Rex Griffin is born in Gadsden, Alabama. He records for Decca in the late-1930s, but makes a stronger mark by writing Eddy Arnold's "Just Call Me Lonesome" and Hank Penny's "Won't You Ride In My Little Red Wagon"
    Mar 25, 1935
    Singer/songwriter Rex Griffin begins a productive four-year association with Decca Records, recording four songs at the Decca Studio in Chicago
    Mar 2, 1936
    Rex Griffin records "Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby" at the Roosevelt Hotel near Bourbon Street in New Orleans
    May 13, 1937
    Rex Griffin records "The Last Letter" in New York
    Jun 4, 1937
    Decca releases Rex Griffin's "The Last Letter"
    Sep 25, 1939
    Rex Griffin records "My Hillbilly Baby" and "Lovesick Blues" during a session in New York. His version of "Lovesick Blues" is believed to have influenced Hank Williams' classic recording of the song
    Oct 7, 1958
    Singer/songwriter Rex Griffin dies in a New Orleans hospital. Though he recorded for Decca in the late-1930s, he's best remembered for writing Eddy Arnold's "Just Call Me Lonesome" and Hank Penny's "Won't You Ride In My Little Red Wagon"
    Oct 12, 1970
    The Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame inducts its first 20 members. The list includes: Gene Autry, Vernon Dalhart, Leon Payne, Ernest Tubb, Bob Miller, Rex Griffin and Vic McAlpin
    Mar 14, 2003
    The Country Music Foundation publishes "Heartaches By The Number," celebrating country's "500 greatest singles." Rex Griffin's "The Last Letter" and Patsy Montana's "I Wanna Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart" are among the 1930s hits to make the list
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