“Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”was nominated for an Academy
Award for Best Song.

The song “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” was recorded at Decca‘s
Hollywood studios nearly a year before the United States entered
World War II but after the start of a peacetime draft to expand the
armed forces in anticipation of American involvement in war. The
flipside was "Bounce Me, Brother, With a Solid Four". The Andrews
Sisters introduced both songs in the Abbott and Costello 1941 film,
Buck Privates which was in production when they made the record.
 

Miller was in the U.S. Army stationed in Korea, 1952.
 

Roger Dean Miller, Sr. (January 2, 1936 – October 25, 1992)

Country singer-songwriter Roger Miller sang "King of the Road," "Dang
Me," and "England Swings." He has won more than ten Grammy Awards
for his music.

Camille Bohannon

Hiram King "Hank" Williams, Sr.
(September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953)

Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians played "Auld Lang Syne" as a New
Year’s Eve song for the first time. The song is a Scots poem written by Robert
Burns (below) in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song. 

Robert Burns
(25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796)

1939

 
Ed Donahue

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins is 78 today.

Hopkins was encouraged by actor Richard Burton to pursue a 
acting career at age 15. His daughter, Abigail Hopkins, is a
singer and actress. 

Donna Summer (LaDonna Adrian Gaines)
(December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012)