1941 in Country Music - Births

Births

• January 18 — Bobby Goldsboro, middle-of-the-road artist best known for 1968's "Honey."
• February 8 — Henson Cargill, best known for 1968's "Skip a Rope." (died 2007)
• March 28 — Charlie McCoy, harmonica specialist.
• April 2 — Sonny Throckmorton, songwriter.
• May 31 — Johnny Paycheck, outlaw country-styled singer best known for "Take This Job and Shove It" (died 2003).
• August 14 — Connie Smith, female vocalist who grew to fame in the 1960s; Grand Ole Opry mainstay.
• September 21 — Dickey Lee, pop-country singer-songwriter.
• September 26 — David Frizzell, brother of Lefty Frizzell who grew into a country star in his own right.
• October 17 — Earl Thomas Conley, singer-songwriter who became one of country's biggest stars of the 1980s.
• November 6 — Guy Clark, alternative-outlaw country singer-songwriter.
• November 27 — Eddie Rabbitt, singer-songwriter who crossed over to pop in the early 1980s with hits such as "I Love a Rainy Night" and "Drivin' My Life Away" (died 1998)
• November 29 — Jody Miller, female vocalist best known for "Queen of the House" (answer song to Roger Miller's "King of the Road").