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Jun 10, 2012
Jimmy Elledge dies of complications from a stroke. His 1961 pop hit "Funny How Time Slips Away" was the first recorded version of the song, written by Willie Nelson
Jun 13, 2012
Country Music Hall of Fame member Frances Preston dies of congestive heart failure at her Nashville home. She founded the Nashville office of BMI, a performing rights agency that collects and distributes royalties to songwriters
Jun 21, 2012
Songwriter Richard Adler dies at home in Southampton, New York. The composer of several Broadway musicals, he wrote "The Strange Little Girl," a 1951 country hit for Ernest Tubb and Red Foley
Jun 27, 2012
Songwriter Susanna Clark dies in Nashville. The wife of Guy Clark, she wrote Kathy Mattea's "Come From The Heart," Emmylou Harris' "Easy From Now On" and Gail Davies' "You're A Hard Dog (To Keep Under The Porch)"
Jul 3, 2012
Actor Andy Griffith dies of a heart attack at his home in Manteo, North Carolina. A Grammy winner for the album "I Love To Tell The Story--25 Timeless Hymns," he appeared in the video for Brad Paisley's "Waitin' On A Woman"
Jul 5, 2012
Drummer Perry Baggs dies at his home in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. He was a member of Jason & The Scorchers, a raucous, punkish country-rock band whose "Absolutely Sweet Marie" ranks among country's 500 greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation book
Jul 16, 2012
Kitty Wells dies at her home in Madison, Tennessee, following a stroke. She set the stage for women in country music following her 1952 signature hit, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," joining the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1976
Jul 16, 2012
R&B bass player Bob Babbitt dies in Nashville. Noted for his work on hits by Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, he contributed to Gladys Knight & The Pips' "Midnight Train To Georgia," considered one of the 500 greatest singles in country history in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
Jul 23, 2012
Pop vocalist Larry Hoppen dies in Florida. As a member of Orleans, he sang lead on the original 1976 version of "Still The One," remade as a country hit by Bill Anderson
Aug 20, 2012
John Stockfish, who played bass on Gordon Lightfoot's "Sundown," dies in Windsor, Ontario, of natural causes
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