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    • Oct 16, 1969
    Record producer and Chess label executive Leonard Chess dies when he has a heart attack and crashes his car in Chicago. He produced Chuck Berry's "Maybellene," ranked among country's greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation book
    Oct 22, 1969
    R&B vocalist Tommy Edwards dies in Henrico County, Virginia. His biggest hit, "It's All In The Game," is translated as a country single in 1977 by Tom T. Hall
    Nov 23, 1969
    Singer/songwriter Spade Cooley dies of a heart attack after a benefit concert for the Alameda County Sheriff's Association. His three-song set included "San Antonio Rose." After serving eight years in prison for killing his wife, he was set for parole on February 22, 1970
    Jan 1, 1970
    Guitarist Floyd "Salty" Holmes dies in Elwood, Indiana. He was an original member of The Prairie Ramblers, who formed in 1932 and backed Patsy Montana on the 1935 hit "I Wanna Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart." He left the act in 1942
    Jan 4, 1970
    Fiddler Clayton McMichen dies in Battletown, Kentucky. He was a central figure in The Skillet Lickers, a Georgia-based string band that ranked among country's top acts during the 1920s
    Jan 21, 1970
    Bass player Howard Watts dies of a heart attack in Nashville. As Cedric Rainwater, he played with Ray Price, Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs, and was a member of The Drifting Cowboys band during the final three years of Hank Williams' life
    Jan 31, 1970
    Blues musician Slim Harpo dies of a heart attack in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Months later, Hank Williams Jr. remakes Harpo's "Rainin' In My Heart" as a country hit
    Feb 7, 1970
    Jimmy Dean dies. The brother of western star Eddie Dean, he performed on WLS Radio's "The National Barn Dance" from 1933-1936 and joined Foy Willing's New Riders Of The Purple Sage, retiring from music after World War II
    Apr 1, 1970
    Paul Cohen dies in Bryan, Texas. An executive with Decca Records, he was the first producer to record major performers in Nashville, at the Tulane Hotel. He is inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1976
    Jul 7, 1970
    Pop songwriter Charles Tobias dies in Manhasset, New York. Along with "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone But Me)," he wrote "The Old Lamplighter," a 1960 pop-country crossover hit for The Browns



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