Today's birthdays include country singer and actor Jerry Reed in 1937 (age 66); Carl Palmer of Emerson Lake and Palmer fame and also of Asia, in 1951 (age 52); Jimmy Vaughan of the Fabulous Thunderbirds, and the older brother of the late Stevie Ray Vaugha

Clint Black born in Long Branch, N.J., 1962. Jethro Burns of Homer & Jethro dies, 1989.

TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY (Wed., March 20) Dewey Balfa was born in 1927. Singer/actor Jerry Reed was born in 1937. Tommy Hunter was born in 1937.

Today is Wednesday, March 20, the 79th day of 2002 with 286 to follow. Spring begins today in the Northern Hemisphere at 2:16 p.m. EST. The moon is waxing, moving toward its first quarter.

(March 20) Today's birthdays include country singer and actor Jerry Reed in 1937 (age 65); Carl Palmer of Emerson Lake and Palmer fame and also of Asia, in 1951 (age 51); ...

(March 16) Today's birthdays include Jerry Lewis -- yes, THAT Jerry Lewis, who had a hit song in 1956 with "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby" -- was born in 1926 (age 76); ...

TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY (Mon., Feb.4) Songwriter Vic McAlpin was born in 1918. Tater Tate -- fiddler for Bill Monroe, Wilma Lee Cooper, Jimmy Martin and others -- was born in 1931.