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Dec 15, 1943
Songwriter and pianist Thomas "Fats" Waller dies on a train near Kansas City. He wrote numerous Broadway show tunes, including "Ain't Misbehavin'," penned while he was in jail for non-payment of alimony. The song will become a country hit in 1986 for Hank Williams Jr.
Jun 22, 1944
Dueron Robertson dies in France when his plane is shot down during World War II. The son of Eck Robertson, he played on his father's 1929 recording "Brilliancy Medley," included in the 1952 album "Anthology Of American Folk Music"
Dec 20, 1944
Songwriter and ukulele player Johnny Marvin dies in North Hollywood, California. Best known for his 1926 pop hit "Breezin' Along With The Breeze," he co-wrote the 1938 Gene Autry hit "Dust" and appeared in many of Autry's cowboy movies
Feb 11, 1945
"I Only Have Eyes For You" songwriter Al Dubin dies of pneumonia and drug poisoning in New York. Over the next three years, two of his songs make the country charts: Jo Stafford's "Feudin' And Fightin'" and T. Texas Tyler's "Memories Of France"
Apr 12, 1945
President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies of a stroke in Warm Springs, Georgia. After guiding the government through the Depression, he's remembered in the 1989 Alabama hit "Song Of The South"
Apr 28, 1945
Deposed dictator Benito Mussolini is hung in Mezzegra, Italy, in the closing days of World War II. Just months earlier, his name had appeared in the lyrics of a hillbilly hit: Red Foley's "Smoke On The Water"
Apr 30, 1945
With World War II coming to a perceptible end, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler commits suicide in Berlin with a shot to the head. Three years earlier, he was recognized in the title of Carson Robison's topical country hit "Mussolini's Letter To Hitler"
Nov 9, 1945
Country bluesman Frank Hutchison dies. Among the first to record with a harmonica rack, he cut just 32 songs. One, "Stackalee," ranks among the 500 greatest country singles of all-time in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number"
Apr 5, 1946
Songwriter Vincent Youmans dies in a Denver, Colorado, sanitarium after a 12-year battle with tuberculosis. He wrote "Tea For Two," "I Want To Be Happy" and "Without A Song," a 1930 Paul Whiteman hit destined to be covered by Willie Nelson
May 9, 1946
George W. Smith dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at Ohio Valley General Hospital in Wheeling, West Virginia. The managing director of WWVA, he created "The Wheeling Jamboree," an Opry-style radio show
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