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May 8, 1967
LaVerne Andrews dies of cancer in Los Angeles. With younger siblings Maxene and Patty, she was a part of The Andrews Sisters, a World War II-era pop trio that dented the country charts during the 1940s in pairings with Bing Crosby and Ernest Tubb
Jun 2, 1967
Clarence "Tom" Ashley dies in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He played banjo and guitar as a solo singer and as a member of The Carolina Tar Heels, with his recording of "The Coo-Coo Bird" ranked among country's 500 greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation book
Jun 5, 1967
John "Lonzo" Sullivan, of Lonzo & Oscar, dies of a heart attack while driving a tractor on his Tennessee farm. Sullivan was the second person to play Lonzo in the Grand Ole Opry comedy duo, best known for its twisted routine "I'm My Own Grandpa"
Jun 12, 1967
Songwriter Sylvia Dee dies in New York City. Among her credits are Willie Nelson's "Bring Me Sunshine," Billy Walker's "I Taught Her Everything She Knows" and Skeeter Davis' "The End Of The World"
Jul 17, 1967
Saxophone player John Coltrane dies of liver cancer at Huntington Hospital in Huntington, New York. The jazz icon is mentioned alongside Frank Sinatra and The Righteous Brothers in the bridge of Brad Paisley's 2011 single "Old Alabama"
Jul 24, 1967
Tommy Duncan dies in San Diego from a heart attack. The former vocalist for Bob Wills' Texas Playboys delivered such milestone recordings as "Right Or Wrong," "New San Antonio Rose" and "Roly Poly"
Oct 3, 1967
Chuck Wagon Gang guitarist Howard Gordon, the husband of the group's Anna Carter, dies of a heart attack after taping "The Wilburn Brothers Show" in Nashville. A former member of the Light Crust Doughboys, he'd played with the Chuck Wagon Gang since 1951
Oct 3, 1967
Woody Guthrie dies in Queens after a 15-year struggle with Huntington's disease. The folk singer/songwriter influenced the social content of several 20th-century genres, including country, and is eventually added to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
Oct 9, 1967
Banjo player Charles "Chick" Hurt dies. He played from 1932-1960 with The Prairie Ramblers, a WLS Radio act that supported Patsy Montana on the 1935 hit "I Wanna Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart"
Oct 19, 1967
Songwriter Joe Beal dies, 10 years after Bobby Helms recorded his best-known song, "Jingle Bell Rock"
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