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Aug 13, 1968
Gospel and R&B singer Joe Hinton dies of cancer, four years after he earned a pop hit with the Willie Nelson-penned "Funny"
Sep 19, 1968
Red Foley dies from a heart attack in a hotel room in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Grandfather to Debby Boone, Foley was a steady country hitmaker from 1944-1956, earning membership in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1967. His last song is a gospel title, "(There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me)"
Sep 28, 1968
Dewey Phillips, the disc jockey who first put Elvis Presley on the radio, dies in his sleep at his mother's house in Memphis
Oct 5, 1968
Guitarist and harmonica player Garley Foster dies in Taylorsville, North Carolina. He was a member of The Carolina Tar Heels, a string band that landed two songs on the Smithsonian Institute's influential "Anthology Of American Folk Music"
Oct 8, 1968
Former Grand Ole Opry general manager Harry Stone dies at Millers Hospital-Clinic in Nashville following a stroke
Nov 8, 1968
Blues singer and songwriter James "Kokomo" Arnold dies in Chicago. He wrote "Milk Cow Blues," a 1941 hit for Johnnie Lee Wills
Dec 10, 1968
Singer/songwriter Billy Cox dies. He is best remembered for writing a pair of country standards: "Filipino Baby," a hit for Ernest Tubb and Cowboy Copas; and "Sparkling Brown Eyes," a success for Webb Pierce
Mar 9, 1969
When their pickup goes out of control on the icy Kickapoo Creek bridge in Illinois, Waylon Jennings band member Chuck Conway is thrown into the creek. Two hours later, he's pronounced dead
Mar 30, 1969
Songwriter Ed Nelson dies in Miami. The father of fellow writers Steve Nelson and Ed Nelson Jr., the senior Nelson penned Bob Wills' "Hang Your Head In Shame" and Hank Williams' "Settin' The Woods On Fire"
May 11, 1969
Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel dies at Baylor Hospital in Dallas. The former Texas governor and senator founded The Light Crust Doughboys to advertise the Burrus Mill in the 1930s, when he was a sales manager for the firm. It proved a seminal act in the growth of western swing
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