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    • May 13, 2006
    Former Heatwave founder Johnnie Wilder Jr. dies at his home in Dayton, Ohio. He sang the lead vocals on the 1977 pop ballad "Always And Forever," cited in the lyrics of Bryan White's 1996 country hit "That's Another Song"
    Jun 2, 2006
    Grateful Dead keyboard player Vince Welnick commits suicide by slitting his throat in the back yard of his home in Sonoma County, California. The Dead was referenced 10 years prior in the Lonestar country hit "No News"
    Jun 6, 2006
    R&B performer Billy Preston dies at Shea Scottsdale Hospital in Arizona after seven months in a coma. Noted for "Nothing From Nothing" and "Will It Go Round In Circles," he played on the CMA-nominated album "Rhythm Country & Blues"
    Jul 9, 2006
    Milan Williams, keyboard player for the R&B band The Commodores, dies of cancer at MD Anderson Hospital in Houston. The band's 1978 pop hit "Three Times A Lady" became a country hit for Conway Twitty in the 1980s
    Sep 30, 2006
    Bass singer Prentiss Barnes dies in a car accident near Magnolia, Mississippi. He was a member of the R&B group The Moonglows, whose 1950s hit "Sincerely" was remade as a country single by The Forester Sisters
    Mar 19, 2007
    Soul singer Luther Ingram dies of a kidney ailment in Belleville, Illinois. He recorded the original version of "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right," a country hit for Barbara Mandrell in 1979
    Jul 4, 2007
    Bill Pinkney, the last original member of The Drifters, is found dead at the Hilton Daytona Beach, Florida. He appeared on their R&B hit "Honey Love," which was remade as a country hit by The Carlisles in 1954
    Sep 28, 2007
    Evelyn Knight dies of lung cancer at a nursing home in San Jose, California. After developing a series of pop hits during the 1940s, she scored a 1951 country hit by teaming with Red Foley on "My Heart Cries For You"
    Oct 17, 2007
    Pop singer Teresa Brewer dies of a neurological disease at her home in New Rochelle, New York. Several of her songs--"Let Me Go, Lover," "A Tear Fell," "Empty Arms" and "Pledging My Love"--were remade as country hits
    Dec 16, 2007

    Dan Fogelberg dies from prostate cancer at his home in Deer Isle, Maine. The pop singer/songwriter recorded a 1985 country album, "High Country Snows," supporting it with a backing group that spawned The Desert Rose Band




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