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    • Aug 26, 1981
    Singer/songwriter Lee Hays dies in Croton-On-Hudson, New York. He was the bass singer for the controversial folk group The Weavers, and co-wrote Billy Grammer's "Gotta Travel On" and Jimmie Rodgers' "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine"
    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 9, 1981
    R&B singer Sonny Til dies of a heart attack at a Baltimore, Maryland, hospital. He sang with The Orioles, whose version of "Crying In The Chapel" is ranked among country's 500 all-time greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Aug 13, 1982
    R&B singer/songwriter Joe Tex dies of a heart attack in Navasota, Texas. Known for such hits as "I Gotcha" and "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)," he also wrote Barbara Mandrell's 1972 country hit "Show Me"
    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"
    Feb 4, 1983
    Karen Carpenter, of The Carpenters, dies from anorexia nervosa at her parents' home in Downey, California. Primarily a pop act, The Carpenters did earn a Top 10 country hit in 1978 by recording "Sweet, Sweet Smile," written by Juice Newton
    Nov 23, 1983
    Badfinger bass player Tom Evans commits suicide in New Haw, England, just months after T.G. Sheppard scored a minor country hit with a remake of "Without You," which Evans co-wrote. Evans was reportedly in a battle over royalties on the song
    Jan 21, 1984
    R&B vocalist Jackie Wilson dies of a heart attack in New Jersey nine years after suffering a stroke during a concert. Wilson had a hit in the 1950s with "Lonely Teardrops," remade for the country audience in 1976 by Narvel Felts
    Apr 1, 1984
    Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father at their Los Angeles home. Nicknamed the Prince of Soul, the former Motown star gets referenced in the first verse of Thomas Rhett's 2015 country single "Die A Happy Man"
    Apr 24, 1984
    Songwriter and band leader Gordon Jenkins dies of Lou Gehrig's disease in Malibu, California. Five months later, Tom T. Hall earns a country hit with Jenkins' composition "P.S. I Love You"



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