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Cowboy Copas' "Alabam" charted in 1960.
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TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY (Tues., March 5) Guitarist Jimmy Bryant was born in 1925. George Wilkerson, fiddler for early Grand Ole Opry string band the Fruit Jar Drinkers, died in 1954.
TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY
TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY