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    • Jul 25, 1984
    Blues singer Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton dies in Los Angeles. She recorded the original version of "Hound Dog," which Elvis Presley remade as a pop and country hit
    Oct 28, 1984
    Former Orleans drummer Wells Kelly dies of asphyxiation in London, while touring as a member of Meat Loaf's band. Kelly played on the original pop version of "Still The One," a 1977 country hit for Bill Anderson
    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
    Jan 31, 1985
    Pop singer Barbara Cowsill dies from emphysema in Arizona. Along with her six kids, she formed The Cowsills, whose 1968 hit "Indian Lake" was successfully remade for country consumption by Freddy Weller
    Jul 16, 1985
    Dance band leader Wayne King dies in Paradise Valley, Arizona. Nicknamed "The Waltz King," he had the biggest version of the 1931 pop hit "I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)." The song was covered for country fans in 1977 by Marty Robbins
    Sep 15, 1985
    Charles "Cootie" Williams dies in New York City. A jazz trumpet player, his 1944 single "Red Blues" made an unlikely entry onto the Billboard folk hit parade, an early version of the magazine's country charts
    Nov 24, 1985
    R&B singer Big Joe Turner dies of a heart attack in Inglewood, California. His 1951 hit "Chains Of Love," written by Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, had been remade for the country charts in 1977 by Mickey Gilley
    Jan 24, 1986
    Movie and Broadway star Gordon MacRae dies of cancer at Bryan Memorial Hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska. Associated with the film version of "Oklahoma!," he earned a 1949 pop hit with Jo Stafford by recording "Need You," remade for the country charts in 1967 by Sonny James
    Mar 4, 1986
    Keyboard player Richard Manuel hangs himself at the Quality Inn Motel in Winter Park, Florida. He was a member of The Band, whose "Up On Cripple Creek" is among country's 500 greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation book
    Jun 17, 1986
    Kate Smith, one of the best-known female singers of the 20th century, dies at the Raleigh Community Hospital in North Carolina. Long associated with "God Bless America," she netted a 1948 country hit with "Foggy River"



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