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  • Jan 17, 1998
    Songwriter/manager/musician/radio personality Cliffie Stone dies of a heart attack at his home in Santa Clarita, California. A co-writer of "Divorce Me C.O.D." and "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed," he played on hits by Merle Travis, Tex Ritter and Hank Thompson, and joined the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989
    May 14, 1998
    Frank Sinatra dies at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, following a heart attack. One of the iconic vocalists of the 20th century, he included two country performers--Lorrie Morgan and Willie Nelson--on his 1994 release "Duets II"
    May 21, 1998
    Bobbie Traywick, the mother of Randy Travis, dies of an apparent heart attack at home in Marshville, North Carolina
    Jun 15, 1998
    Record executive Lew Chudd dies of heart failure in Los Angeles. He built Imperial Records, which had success with Ricky Nelson, Fats Domino, Johnny Rivers, Lightnin' Hopkins and Slim Whitman
    Jun 23, 1998
    Robert Brian Butler, a concert sound engineer for Brooks & Dunn, dies in Orlando, Florida, of a heart attack
    Jul 6, 1998
    Roy Rogers dies of heart failure in Apple Valley, California. The King of the Cowboys was the only performer elected twice to the Country Music Hall of Fame--once as a solo artist, once as a member of The Sons Of The Pioneers
    Jul 12, 1998
    Songwriter Jimmy Driftwood dies of heart failure at a hospital in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Briefly a member of the Grand Ole Opry, he is best remembered for writing Johnny Horton's "The Battle Of New Orleans" and Eddy Arnold's "Tennessee Stud"
    Aug 5, 1998
    Guitarist Eldon Shamblin dies of heart failure in Sapulpa, Oklahoma. A member of Bob Wills' Texas Playboys, he played on such classics as "Faded Love," "San Antonio Rose" and "Cherokee Maiden." He also toured with Merle Haggard
    Aug 24, 1998
    Comedian Jerry Clower dies after heart bypass surgery in Jackson, Mississippi. The Grand Ole Opry member earned a reputation for Southern-bred humor revolving around Yazoo City, Mississippi, and the fictitious Ledbetter family
    Sep 26, 1998
    William Robbins Jr. dies of a massive heart attack in Georgia. He was the father of BlackHawk's Dave Robbins




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