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    • Oct 20, 1953
    Songwriter Fred Ahlert dies in New York City. His song "I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)" has already been a hit for Kate Smith, Tommy Dorsey and The Andrews Sisters, among others, and is destined to score in country for Marty Robbins in 1977
    Jan 29, 1954
    Fiddler Theron Hale dies in Nashville. One of the early members of the Grand Ole Opry, he stayed with the cast from 1925-1933
    Mar 5, 1954
    Fiddler George Wilkerson dies at his home in Nashville following a six-month illness. He was the founder and leader of The Fruit Jar Drinkers, a string band that was a mainstay of the early Grand Ole Opry
    Jun 30, 1954
    R.W. Blackwood and Bill Lyles, of The Blackwood Brothers, die in a plane crash in Clanton, Alabama. The group's "His Hand In Mine" is named one of country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Jul 2, 1954
    Guitarist Paul Warmack dies of a heart attack at Vanderbilt University Hospital. He was the leader of The Gully Jumpers, a stringband that first appeared on the Grand Ole Opry in 1927, and would continue an Opry association until the 1970s
    Jul 29, 1954
    Pete Cassell dies in Key West, Florida. Reaching his peak in the 1940s on a barn dance at Atlanta radio station WSB, the blind singer was a forerunner of such smooth vocalists as Jim Reeves, George Morgan and Eddy Arnold
    Aug 17, 1954
    Pop singer Billy Murray dies of a heart attack at Jones Beach, New York. Fifteen years later, his 1916 hit "Are You From Dixie (Cause I'm From Dixie Too)" is reprised as a country single by Jerry Reed
    Dec 1, 1954
    Fred Rose dies in Nashville of a heart attack. Rose founded Acuff-Rose Publishing with Roy Acuff, produced Hank Williams and wrote "Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain." He is one of the first inductees in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
    Dec 24, 1954
    R&B singer Johnny Ace shoots himself backstage in a game of Russian roulette at the City Auditorium in Houston, Texas. Ace dies the next day. His hit "Pledging My Love" is covered as a country hit 30 years later by Emmylou Harris
    Jan 24, 1955
    Ira Hayes dies after a night of drinking in Bapchule, Arizona. One of the men who raised the flag on Mt. Suribachi at Iwo Jima, he struggled with his fame after the war, his story inspiring the Johnny Cash hit "The Ballad Of Ira Hayes"



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