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April 29, 1943 Country singer Duane Allen (of The Oak Ridge Boys) is born in Taylortown, Texas.
April 24, 1943 Country singer Richard Sterban (of The Oak Ridge Boys) is born in Camden, New Jersey.
March 18, 1943 Country singer-songwriter Dennis Linde is born in Abilene, Texas. He pens the 1972 Elvis Presley hit "Burning Love."
January 16, 1943 Ronnie Milsap is born in Robbinsville, North Carolina. He becomes country music's first successful blind singer, starting with his first chart-topper, "Pure Love," in 1974.
January 7, 1943 Country singer Leona Williams is born Leona Belle Helton in Vienna, Missouri. She writes the Merle Haggard hits "Someday When Things Are Good" and "You Take Me For Granted."
October 27, 1942 Country singer Lee Greenwood is born Melvin Lee Greenwood in Los Angeles, California, but grows up on a poultry farm in Sacramento.
May 15, 1942 Country singer-songwriter K.T. Oslin, known for '80s hits like "Hold Me" and "80s Ladies," is born Kay Toinette Oslin in Crossett, Arkansas.
May 12, 1942 Country singer Billy Swan is born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
May 8, 1942 Country musician Jack Blanchard is born in Buffalo, New York, raised in Ohio.
March 16, 1942 Country singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker, who writes the oft-recorded "Mr. Bojangles" in 1968, is born Ronald Clyde Crosby in Oneonta, New York.
January 21, 1942 Country singer-songwriter Mac Davis is born in Lubbock, Texas. He writes "In The Ghetto" and "A Little Less Conversation" for Elvis Presley.
January 1, 1942 Joe McDonald (lead singer of Country Joe & The Fish) is born in Washington, DC, but will grow up in El Monte, California.
December 9, 1941 Country singer Dan Hicks is born in Little Rock, Arkansas. Known for songs like "I Scare Myself" and "Canned Music."
December 6, 1941 Country singer Helen Cornelius, known for a string of popular duets with Jim Ed Brown ("I Don't Want To Have To Marry You," 1976), is born in Monroe City, Missouri.
November 27, 1941 Country singer Eddie Rabbitt is born in Brooklyn, New York. Before embarking on a recording career, he pens the hits "Kentucky Rain" for Elvis Presley and "Pure Love" for Ronnie Milsap.
October 25, 1941 Singer/songwriter/activist Helen Reddy is born in Melbourne, Australia. In the '70s, she rises to fame in both her native country and in America, where she has three #1 hits: "I Am Woman," "Delta Dawn" and "Angie Baby."
August 15, 1941 Country musician Don Rich (of The Buckaroos, Buck Owens' backing band) is born in Olympia, Washington.
August 14, 1941 Country singer Connie Smith, known for the 1964 hit "Once A Day," is born Constance June Meador in Elkhart, Indiana.
July 18, 1941 Country rocker Lonnie Mack is born Lonnie McIntosh in West Harrison, Indiana.
June 4, 1941 Linda Martell, the first Black woman to land songs on the Country chart and the first to play the Grand Ole Opry, is born Thelma Bynem in Leesville, South Carolina. She releases just one album but influences singers like Beyoncé, who includes Martell on her 2024 album Cowboy Carter.
May 28, 1941 Country singer Ernest Tubb releases his signature song, "Walking The Floor Over You," and launches the honky tonk genre.
April 9, 1941 Country singer Kay Adams, known for the 1966 hit "Little Pink Mack," is born Princetta Kay Adams in Knox City, Texas.
February 20, 1941 Singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie is born. According to her birth certificate, she's born Beverly Jean Santamaria in Stoneham, Massachusetts, but she claims to be Native-Canadian, born Beverly Sainte-Marie in Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan and adopted by a couple in Stoneham.More
January 18, 1941 Country/pop singer Bobby Goldsboro is born in Marianna, Florida.
November 24, 1940 Country singer-songwriter Johnny Carver is born in Jackson, Mississippi. Known for his 1973 hit cover of Tony Orlando's "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree."
November 4, 1940 Blues rocker Delbert McClinton, known for the 1992 country duet (with Tanya Tucker) "Tell Me About It," is born in Lubbock, Texas.
August 12, 1940 Country/Rockabilly singer Rod Bernard is born in Opelousas, Louisiana.
December 29, 1939 Country singer Ed Bruce is born William Edwin Bruce Jr. in Keiser, Arkansas, but is raised in Memphis, Tennessee.
August 21, 1939 Country singer Harold Reid (of The Statler Brothers) is born in Staunton, Virginia. He co-wrote many of the group's hits, including "Bed of Rose's" and "Do You Know You Are My Sunshine."
June 16, 1939 Billy "Crash" Craddock, rockabilly/country singer of the '70s known for hits like "Rub It In" and "Broken Down In Tiny Pieces," is born in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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