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    • Sep 12, 2011
    Songwriter Don Wayne dies from cancer at his Nashville home. Among his hits: Lefty Frizzell's "Saginaw, Michigan," Jean Shepard's "If Teardrops Were Silver" and Cal Smith's "Country Bumpkin"
    Sep 12, 2011
    Country pioneer Wade Mainer dies of congestive heart failure at his Flint, Michigan, home. The banjo player influenced the development of bluegrass and received a National Heritage Fellowship
    Sep 13, 2011
    Grand Ole Opry member Wilma Lee Cooper dies at her home in Sweetwater, Tennessee. She was part of a duo with husband Stoney Cooper, earning four Top 10 hits from 1958-1961
    Sep 27, 2011
    Johnny Wright dies at his home in Nashville. The husband and manager of Kitty Wells, he enjoyed hits as a member of the duo Johnnie & Jack and earned a solo #1 hit with "Hello Vietnam"
    Sep 27, 2011
    Country Johnny Mathis dies of pneumonia in Tennessee. He wrote the Ray Price hit "Please Talk To My Heart" and joined Jimmy Lee Fautheree in the duo Jimmy & Johnny, earning a Top 10 single with "If You Don't Somebody Else Will"
    Sep 30, 2011
    "Tracks Of My Tears" songwriter Marvin Tarplin dies at his home in Las Vegas. The Motown figure also authored such R&B hits as "Going To A Go-Go," "Cruisin'" and "Ain't That Peculiar"
    Oct 12, 2011
    Keyboard player Joel "Taz" DiGregorio dies in a car accident en route to meet The Charlie Daniels Band's tour bus in Nashville. A 40-year member, he co-wrote such CDB hits as "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" and "In America"
    Oct 19, 2011
    Bass player Chris Kent dies in Nashville. A member of Lorrie Morgan's road band, he played on the Steve Azar hit "I Don't Have To Be Me ('Til Monday)"
    Oct 31, 2011
    Songwriter Liz Anderson dies at Nashville's Saint Thomas Hospital. The mother of Lynn Anderson, she wrote Merle Haggard's "The Fugitive," among others, and had her own hit with "Mama Spank"
    Nov 14, 2011
    "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" songwriter Lee Pockriss dies at his home in Bridgewater, Connecticut. His credits also include Faron Young's 1957 country hit "Love Has Finally Come My Way"



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