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- December 22, 2024 CST
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Aug 4, 2015
Songwriter/producer Billy Sherrill dies in Nashville. A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, his hit list included material by George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Johnny Paycheck, Charlie Rich and Ray Charles, among others
Aug 14, 2015
Record producer Bob Johnston dies in Gallatin, Tennessee. In addition to guiding Bob Dylan's Nashville recordings in the 1960s, he produced such country hits as Johnny Cash's "Sunday Morning Coming Down," Marty Robbins' "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife" and The Statler Brothers' "You Can't Have Your Kate And Edith, Too"
Sep 1, 2015
Boomer Castleman dies of cancer in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. Formerly in a duo with Michael Martin Murphey, he played on Johnny Lee's 1977 hit "Country Party"
Sep 25, 2015
Drummer Hugh Wright dies at his home in Great Falls, Montana. During his tenure in Boy Howdy, he played on the country hits "A Cowboy's Born With A Broken Heart," "She'd Give Anything" and "They Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore"
Oct 6, 2015
Billy Joe Royal dies at his home in North Carolina. Following his start in pop music, he became a country star in the late-1980s, notching hits with "I Miss You Already," "Love Has No Right" and "Tell It Like It Is"
Oct 16, 2015
Producer, guitarist and songwriter John Jennings dies of kidney cancer at a hospice in Rockville, Maryland. A key collaborator with Mary Chapin Carpenter, he directed such hits as "Down At The Twist And Shout," "I Feel Lucky," "Shut Up And Kiss Me" and "He Thinks He'll Keep Her"
Nov 2, 2015
Tommy Overstreet dies at his home in Oregon. He piled up 11 Top 10 country hits during the 1970s, including "Gwen (Congratulations)," "I'm A Believer" and "Heaven Is My Woman's Love"
Nov 9, 2015
Songwriter/producer Allen Toussaint dies in Madrid, Spain, following a performance. A key New Orleans musician, he wrote Glen Campbell's "Southern Nights" and Joe Stampley's "All These Things"
Nov 17, 2015
Ramona Jones dies in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. She performed alongside her husband, Grand Ole Opry member Grandpa Jones, on tour and on TV's "Hee Haw"
Nov 22, 2015
Songwriter Ted Harris dies at his home in Lewisburg, Tennessee. Among his credits were "Crystal Chandelier," "The Happiness Of Having You" and "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle"
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