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Country Music History – January 25

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JANUARY 25

1924: Steel guitar player Wesley “Speedy” West was born in Springfield, MO. He worked with Spade Cooley and Hank Penny, recorded a series of instrumentals with Jimmy Bryant, and produced Loretta Lynn’s first single, “Honky Tonk Girl.”

1932: Claude Gray was born in Henderson, TX. Nicknamed “The Tall Texan,” he recorded four hits during the 1960s, including the Willie Nelson-penned “Family Bible” and the Roger Miller-penned “My Ears Should Burn (When Fools Are Talked About).”

1941: Songwriter/keyboard player Bobby Wood was born near New Albany, MS. He wrote Crystal Gayle’s “Half The Way” and Ronnie Milsap’s “He Got You,” and played on Willie Nelson’s “Always On My Mind,” Garth Brooks’ “The Dance” and Elvis Presley’s “Kentucky Rain.”

1957: Marty Robbins started an overnight session at the Columbia Studio in New York that yielded three singles: “Please Don’t Blame Me,” “Teen-Age Dream” and “A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation).”

1967: Charley Pride recorded “I Know One.”

1978: Ronnie Milsap recorded “Only One Love In My Life” in a 2 p.m. session at Woodland Sound in Nashville.

1978: United Artists released the first Kenny Rogers & Dottie West duet, “Every Time Two Fools Collide.”

1984: MCA released George Strait’s remake of the Bob Wills classic “Right Or Wrong.”

1992: Emmylou Harris joined the Grand Ole Opry.

1992: Tracy Lawrence made his first appearance at #1 in Billboard with “Sticks And Stones.”

2014: Kris Kristofferson received the Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award at Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, along with The Beatles and The Isley Brothers. Producer Rick Hall was honored with a Trustees Award.

2017: Mary Tyler Moore died at Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut. Best known for her acting in “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” she also founded the 1980s label MTM Records, netting hits for Holly Dunn, Judy Rodman and Schuyler, Knobloch & Overstreet.