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    • Mar 31, 1968
    Skeets McDonald dies of a heart attack at his home in Inglewood, California. Recording in Los Angeles, he earned two hit records, 1952's "Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes" and 1963's "Call Me Mr. Brown"
    Apr 4, 1968
    Martin Luther King Jr. is killed at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Expected riots force the cancellation that weekend of the Grand Ole Opry for the first time since 1928
    Apr 17, 1968
    Songwriter Dorsey Dixon dies of heart failure in Plant City, Florida. He wrote Roy Acuff's classic "Wreck On The Highway"
    Apr 22, 1968
    RCA executive Steve Sholes dies when he suffers a heart attack while driving to the Nashville Airport. A 1967 inductee in the Country Music Hall of Fame, Sholes produced country hits by Elvis Presley, Eddy Arnold, Hank Snow and Jim Reeves
    May 8, 1968
    George D. Hay dies in his apartment in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Nicknamed the Solemn Ole Judge, he founded and named the influential WSM radio show the Grand Ole Opry, entering the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1966
    May 14, 1968
    Songwriter Beasley Smith dies in Nashville. He co-wrote Roy Acuff's 1942 classic "Night Train To Memphis"
    May 26, 1968
    R&B singer Little Willie John dies in Washington State Prison while serving time for manslaughter. In 1958, he scored a hit with "Talk To Me," revised twice as a country hit: by Freddy Fender and by Mickey Gilley
    Jun 14, 1968
    Ernest "Pop" Stoneman dies in Nashville. A country recording pioneer, he organized his children into a group, The Stoneman Family, earning a CMA award a year before his death. He enters the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008
    Jul 3, 1968
    Cal Maddox dies from a heart attack. He was a member of The Maddox Brothers & Rose, whose energetic live shows and rhinestone-studded outfits brought them recognition as the Most Colorful Hillbilly Band In America during the 1940s and '50s
    Aug 5, 1968
    Guitarist Luther Perkins dies at Nashville's Vanderbilt Medical Center of injuries sustained in a fire two days prior. As a member of Johnny Cash's Tennessee Two, he played rhythm on numerous recordings and inspired "Luther Played The Boogie"



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