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    • Jul 30, 2003
    Record producer Sam Phillips dies at Memphis' St. Francis Hospital from respiratory failure. Founding Sun Records, he played a role in the careers of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and others, landing in the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Dec 20, 2003
    Songwriter/producer/bass player Charles Grean dies in New York. Best known for his work with Nat "King" Cole and Artie Shaw, he also was involved with such country artists as Eddy Arnold, Kitty Wells, Hank Snow and Jeanne Black
    Feb 3, 2005
    Record executive and producer Frank Jones dies at his home in Nashville. In a career with numerous labels, he co-produced such artists as John Anderson, Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash, Jimmy Dean, Ray Price and Claude King
    Apr 3, 2005
    Starday Records co-founder Don Pierce dies in Hendersonville, Tennessee. The label represented such acts as George Jones, Johnny Bond, Red Sovine, Cowboy Copas and Frankie Miller
    Sep 14, 2005
    Record producer Ray Ruff dies of an apparent heart attack in Saugus, California. He produced 1970s hits for Hank Williams Jr., Stephanie Winslow and T.G. Sheppard
    Jun 25, 2006
    Record producer Arif Mardin dies of pancreatic cancer in New York. Noted for his work with Aretha Franklin, The Bee Gees and Chaka Khan, he also produced Willie Nelson's "Uncloudy Day"
    Nov 1, 2006
    Producer, songwriter and publisher Buddy Killen dies of liver and pancreatic cancer in Nashville. He produced hits by Exile, T.G. Sheppard and Bill Anderson, and wrote "Watchin' Girls Go By," "I Can't Wait Any Longer" and "I May Never Get To Heaven"
    Feb 22, 2007
    Bob Webster, a co-producer of Gene Watson's "Love In The Hot Afternoon," dies in a Nashville nursing home. He was a longtime associate of producer Jack Clement
    Apr 17, 2007
    Songwriter/producer Glenn Sutton dies of a heart attack in Nashville. In addition to producing Lynn Anderson's "Rose Garden," he wrote such hits as "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad," "Almost Persuaded" and "What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made A Loser Out Of Me)"
    Aug 4, 2007
    Songwriter/producer Lee Hazlewood dies of renal cancer in Henderson, Nevada. Best known for his role in Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'," he also produced Sanford Clark's 1956 crossover hit "The Fool"



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