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Nov 17, 1981
Former big-band singer Bob Eberly dies with cancer at his daughter's home in Glen Burnie, Maryland. Noted for his work with the Jimmy Dorsey orchestra, he also earned a country hit in 1949 with a version of "One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)"
Dec 3, 1981
Guitarist Bob Morris dies of cancer in Harrison, Arkansas. A former member of Buck Owens' Buckaroos, he wrote Owens' hits "Buckaroo" and "Made In Japan," as well as Sylvia's "The Matador"
May 8, 1982
Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart dies of cancer. Known for breaking such acts as Donna Summer, Kiss and Parliament, the label also handled Mac Davis just prior to Bogart's passing
Dec 10, 1982
Harmonica player Jimmie Riddle dies of cancer in Nashville. Beginning in 1943, he became a regular member of Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys and spent much of his later years as a member of the "Hee Haw" cast
Jan 21, 1983
Lamar Williams, bass player with The Allman Brothers Band, dies of cancer at the Veterans Hospital in Los Angeles. Five years earlier, the group was namechecked in a Conway Twitty hit, "Boogie Grass Band"
Dec 11, 1983
Willie Nelson's mother, Myrle Harvey, dies in Yakima, Washington, of cancer
Sep 18, 1984
Lefty Perkins, a member of The Light Crust Doughboys and Milton Brown's Musical Brownies, dies of cancer. The guitarist joined the Brownies in 1936 after the departure of steel player Bob Dunn
Sep 20, 1984
Singer/songwriter Steve Goodman dies at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle of complications from leukemia. He wrote "You Never Even Called Me By My Name," by David Allan Coe; and "City Of New Orleans," by Willie Nelson
Oct 28, 1984
June Nelson dies of lung cancer at home in Somis, California, with husband Ken Nelson at her side. A former Capitol executive, he's destined to join the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001 after producing Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Hank Thompson and Sonny James
Nov 13, 1984
Singer/songwriter Don Addrisi dies of pancreatic cancer in California. One-half of the pop duo The Addrisi Brothers, he joined younger sibling Dick Addrisi to write The Association's 1967 pop hit "Never My Love," re-cast as a country single by Vern Gosdin in 1978
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