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Dec 28, 2020
Guitarist Skip Mitchell dies in Hendersonville, Tennessee. A former member of The Oak Ridge Boys' touring band, Mitchell also played on Sammy Kershaw's cover of "Fire And Rain," featured in the 1994 album "Red Hot + Country," which raised money for AIDS charities
Dec 29, 2020
Phyllis McGuire dies at her home in Las Vegas. She was a member of the trio The McGuire Sisters, who developed a string of harmony-laden pop hits in the 1950s. Among them was their 1954 release "Sincerely," which was later turned into a country hit by The Forester Sisters
Dec 30, 2020
Songwriter Hugh X. Lewis dies of COVID-19 in Nashville. He authored Stonewall Jackson's #1 country hit "B.J. The D.J.," plus hits by Carl Smith and Lynn Anderson
Dec 31, 2020
Fiddler Kenneth "Little Red" Hayes dies in Jasper, Texas. He played on country hits by Jim Reeves and Hank Thompson, and toured with the road bands of Mel Tillis, George Jones and Ray Price
Jan 1, 2021
Misty Morgan dies of cancer. She was one-half of a duo with her husband, Jack Blanchard, best known for their 1970 novelty hit "Tennessee Bird Walk"
Jan 7, 2021
Singer/songwriter Jamie O'Hara dies of cancer at Alive Hospice in Nashville. He spent part of the 1980s in the duo The O'Kanes and also wrote The Judds' "Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout The Good Ol' Days)," Gary Allan's "Man To Man" and Lee Ann Womack's "You've Got To Talk To Me"
Jan 7, 2021
Movie director Michael Apted dies in Los Angeles. His work included the pictures "Gorky Park," "Gorillas In The Mist," "The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader" and the Loretta Lynn biopic "Coal Miner's Daughter"
Jan 8, 2021
Singer/songwriter Ed Bruce dies in Clarksville, Tennessee. He applied a deep, rich voice to a series of midtempo hits in the 1970s and '80s and wrote Charlie Louvin's "See The Big Man Cry," Tanya Tucker's "Texas (When I Die)" and Waylon & Willie's "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys"
Jan 14, 2021
Songwriter and former record executive Larry Willoughby dies of COVID-19. He authored Waylon Jennings' "The Devil's On The Loose," Eddy Raven's "Operator, Operator" and "Burning Bridges" by Brooks & Dunn with Sheryl Crow & Vince Gill
Jan 16, 2021
Songwriter/producer Phil Spector dies of COVID-19 in prison in Stockton, California. Noted for his work with The Righteous Brothers, The Crystals and The Beatles, Spector also wrote "To Know Him Is To Love Him," covered in country by Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris
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