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    • May 5, 2008
    Jerry Wallace dies of congestive heart failure at his home in Victorville, California. Originally a pop artist, he secured five Top 15 country hits in the 1970s, including the #1 single "If You Leave Me Tonight I'll Cry"
    May 8, 2008
    Eddy Arnold dies at NHC Place in Franklin, Tennessee. Originally nicknamed the Tennessee Plowboy, he became a leading proponent of the string-laden "Nashville Sound" of the 1960s. Arnold joined the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1966
    May 15, 2008
    Publisher Al Gallico dies of cardiac arrest at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. A member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, he handled such copyrights as "Stand By Your Man," "Ring Of Fire" and "Let Me Be There"
    May 21, 2008
    Former Grand Ole Opry manager Walter David "D" Kilpatrick dies at his home in Tennessee. The first salaried producer in Nashville, he was one of the founding members of the Country Music Association
    May 26, 2008

    "Tootsie" producer Sydney Pollack dies of cancer at his home in Pacific Palisades, California. He was credited as a producer on Willie Nelson's "Midnight Rider" and "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys," both from the movie "The Electric Horseman"

    May 31, 2008

    Bass singer Hugh Jarrett, formerly of The Jordanaires, dies in Atlanta two months after an automobile accident. He took part in several Elvis Presley hits as well as the Jim Reeves classic "The Blizzard"

    Jun 10, 2008
    Gordon Lightfoot guitarist Red Shea dies of pancreatic cancer in Aurora, Ontario. Among Shea's credits: the 1974 country hit "Sundown"
    Jun 12, 2008
    Trumpet player Danny Davis dies at Nashville's Saint Thomas Hospital. He won a Grammy and multiple Country Music Association awards as the leader of the instrumental group Danny Davis & The Nashville Brass
    Jun 24, 2008
    Drummer Len "Snuffy" Miller is found dead at his Nashville home. A former member of Bill Anderson's Po' Boys, he toured and/or played on records with Dottie West, Connie Smith and Nat Stuckey, and produced Jerry Clower comedy albums
    Jul 16, 2008
    Pop singer Jo Stafford dies of congestive heart failure at her home in Century City, California. She earned a pair of country hits in 1947, singing on Red Ingle's "Temptation (Tim-Tayshun)" and her own "Feudin' And Fightin'"



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