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    • Jul 10, 1965
    Wreck on the highway: Roy Acuff, guitarist June Stearns and steel player Shot Jackson are injured in a near-fatal car crash in east Tennessee. Acuff has a pair of pelvic fractures and a broken collarbone. Stearns never returns to the band
    Mar 11, 1967
    The CBS variety series "The Jackie Gleason Show" delivers a country episode with appearances by Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys, The Collins Kids, Roy Clark, Homer & Jethro, Boots Randolph, Buck Owens and Sue Thompson
    Sep 1, 1970
    Harmonica player Jimmie Riddle, of Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys, begins taking regular absences from the band to participate in tapings of "Hee Haw." Guitarist Jackie Phelps quits the band entirely as the comedic duo, Riddle & Phelps, becomes a regular feature on the show
    Sep 18, 1975
    Dobro player Clell Summey dies of cancer. Under the stage name Cousin Jody, he preceded Bashful Brother Oswald in Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys
    Jun 6, 1979
    Several members of Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys are added to the Country Music Hall of Fame's Walkway of Stars: Joe Zinkan, Rachel Veach, Curley Rhodes, Onie Wheeler, Charlie Collins and Gene Martin
    Jul 20, 1980
    Rachel Veach, a former banjo player for Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys, dies of breast cancer in Nashville. She played on such Acuff titles as "Wreck On The Highway," "The Precious Jewel" and "Night Train To Memphis"
    Jul 8, 1981
    Less than a month after the death of Roy Acuff's wife, Lola Oswald, the wife of Smoky Mountain Boy Bashful Brother Oswald, dies in Nashville
    May 29, 1982
    Harmonica player Jimmie Riddle, of Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys, passes out between Grand Ole Opry performances in the parking lot. He is admitted to Nashville's Baptist Hospital, where, within weeks, he is diagnosed with cancer
    Jun 12, 1982
    Jimmie Riddle, of the Smoky Mountain Boys, undergoes surgery at Nashville's Baptist Hospital. Doctors discover he has bladder cancer
    Dec 10, 1982
    Harmonica player Jimmie Riddle dies of cancer in Nashville. Beginning in 1943, he became a regular member of Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys and spent much of his later years as a member of the "Hee Haw" cast
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