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    • Aug 25, 2000
    Swing fiddler Cliff Bruner dies at his Houston home. Bruner was briefly one of Milton Brown's Musical Brownies before forming his own band, which served as a springboard for keyboard player Moon Mullican and steel legend Bob Dunn
    Sep 3, 2000
    Accordion player and songwriter Ernie Benedict dies. He formed a group called The Polkateers, earning a hit in 1949 with "Over Three Hills." He also wrote the Ernest Tubb/Andrews Sisters success "I'm Biting My Fingernails And Thinking Of You"
    Sep 12, 2000
    Steel guitarist Bob Foster dies in Nashville. He appeared on hits by Webb Pierce, Carl Smith, Kitty Wells and Faron Young, including the original version of "If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin')"
    Sep 26, 2000
    Pop songwriter Carl Sigman dies in Manhasset, New York. He authored such familiar titles as "The Theme To 'Love Story,'" "Pennsylvania 6-5000" and "It's All In The Game," remade as a country hit by Tom T. Hall in 1977
    Oct 14, 2000
    Accordion player Leo Mannes dies of heart failure in Los Angeles. With the stage name Zeke Manners, he was an original member of The Beverly Hill Billies, who paved the way for country music on L.A. radio
    Oct 20, 2000
    Following his second stroke, Luke Wills dies in Las Vegas, Nevada. A younger brother of Bob Wills, he played on The Texas Playboys' "Ida Red Likes The Boogie," "Heart To Heart Talk" and "Faded Love," plus Johnnie Lee Wills' "Milk Cow Blues"
    Oct 21, 2000
    Moises "Blondie" Calderon, piano player and bandleader for Ray Price, suffers a heart attack en route to a show in Turkey, Texas. He dies two days later
    Oct 23, 2000
    Moises "Blondie" Calderon dies at Covenant Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, following open-heart surgery. Calderon had worked for 34 years as the piano player and bandleader for Ray Price
    Oct 26, 2000
    Harmonica player Don Brooks dies with leukemia in New York City. Noted for his work with Billy Joel, Diana Ross and The Bee Gees, he was a member of Waylon Jennings' band during the 1970s, appearing on "You Ask Me To" and "This Time"
    Oct 30, 2000
    TV personality Steve Allen dies just hours after a car accident in Encino, California. Fifty years prior, he had success as a songwriter on the Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely country hit "Let's Go To Church (Next Sunday Morning)"



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