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    • Sep 12, 1958
    Rod Brasfield dies of a heart attack at his Nashville home. Brasfield had been a Grand Ole Opry comedian since 1947, and gave Hank Williams Jr. his "Bocephus" nickname. Brasfield posthumously enters the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1987
    Oct 7, 1958
    Singer/songwriter Rex Griffin dies in a New Orleans hospital. Though he recorded for Decca in the late-1930s, he's best remembered for writing Eddy Arnold's "Just Call Me Lonesome" and Hank Penny's "Won't You Ride In My Little Red Wagon"
    Oct 20, 1958
    Jay Perkins dies from a brain tumor, with his brother, Carl Perkins, holding his hand. Jay played guitar along with Carl on "Blue Suede Shoes"
    Nov 26, 1958
    Songwriter Tiny Bradshaw dies in Cincinnati, Ohio, two years after Johnny Burnette recorded his song "The Train Kept A-Rollin'." Burnette's cut ranks among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number"
    Feb 3, 1959
    Rock pioneer Buddy Holly dies in a plane crash near Mason City, Iowa, along with touring partners The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens. Holly's bass player, Waylon Jennings, gave up a seat on the plane
    Feb 28, 1959
    Playwright Maxwell Anderson dies in Stamford, Connecticut, two days after suffering a stroke. Anderson co-wrote "September Song," which becomes a country hit for Willie Nelson 20 years later
    Feb 28, 1959
    Songwriter Mack Gordon dies in New York. His song "At Last" becomes a pop standard when it's covered by Etta James and hits Top 15 on the national country charts after contestant Sundance Head performs it in 2016 on NBC's "The Voice"
    Nov 22, 1959
    Broadway lyricist Sam Lewis dies in New York. The author of "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody" and "Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My Girl?)," he also wrote the Jimmie Rodgers country hit "In The Hills Of Tennessee"
    Jan 19, 1960
    Ralph Sylvester Peer dies in Hollywood. Peer coined the phrase "hillbilly music" and produced the first recordings of Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family. He is inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1984
    Feb 6, 1960
    R&B singer Jesse Belvin dies in a car crash in Fairhope, Arkansas. A co-writer of The Penguins' hit "Earth Angel," he earns a country hit 10 years later as a songwriter after Slim Whitman covers "Guess Who"



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