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    • May 26, 1933
    Jimmie Rodgers, suffering from tuberculosis, dies of a massive hemorrhage at New York's Taft Hotel. Nicknamed the Singing Brakeman, he became country music's first superstar, and, in 1961, the first person inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Nov 30, 1934
    Pop songwriter Roy Turk dies of pneumonia in Hollywood. His song "Are You Lonesome To-night?" is destined to become an Elvis Presley classic, while Turk's "I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)" is covered by Marty Robbins
    Aug 15, 1935
    Comedian Will Rogers and renowned pilot Wiley Post die in a plane crash outside of Point Barrow, Alaska. Their souls live on in Tex Ritter's 1961 recitation "I Dreamed Of A Hill-billy Heaven"
    Apr 18, 1936
    Bandleader Milton Brown dies at Fort Worth's Methodist Hospital, five days after a car crash. He stood alongside Bob Wills as one of the founders of western swing
    Jun 12, 1936
    Dr. Humphrey Bate dies of a heart ailment at his home in Castalian Springs, Tennessee. Bate's band, The Possum Hunters, was the first to play country music on WSM Radio, which would launch the Grand Ole Opry. The Possum Hunters were a component of the Opry for its first 10 years
    Jul 11, 1937
    Pop songwriter George Gershwin dies in Beverly Hills during a brain operation. Known for "Summertime" and "It Ain't Necessarily So," his song "A Foggy Day" is a vehicle for a Willie Nelson-Frank Sinatra collaboration on the 1994 album "Duets II"
    Feb 10, 1938
    Songwriter Richard Whiting dies of heart disease in Beverly Hills. The father of Margaret Whiting, he wrote "Ain't We Got Fun," "Hooray For Hollywood," "On The Good Ship Lollipop" and The Hoosier Hot Shots' "Breezin' Along With The Breeze"
    Sep 15, 1938
    Southern novelist Thomas Wolfe dies of tuberculosis in Baltimore, Maryland. With a resume that includes the book "You Can't Go Home Again," he's referenced in the Don Williams country hit "Good Ole Boys Like Me"
    Mar 17, 1939
    Rufus Payne, known to Hank Williams as "Tee Tot," dies in a Montgomery hospital. Payne, an African-American street singer, taught Williams to play the guitar
    Oct 12, 1940
    Actor Tom Mix dies in Florence, Arizona. A western star in the earliest days of the film industry, he's mentioned in The Statler Brothers' 1977 country hit "The Movies"



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