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    • Jun 13, 1972
    R&B singer Clyde McPhatter dies of a heart attack in the Bronx. A former member of The Dominoes and The Drifters, he grabbed a solo pop hit in 1958 with "A Lover's Question," remade as a country hit in 1978 by Jacky Ward
    Jun 23, 1972
    Elton Britt dies from a heart attack in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. A long-shot candidate for president in 1960, he earned acclaim for his World War II hit "There's A Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere"
    Sep 7, 1972
    Hubert Long dies at Nashville's Baptist Hospital, months after surgery for a brain tumor. The manager or booking agent for such acts as Webb Pierce, Bill Anderson, George Jones and Faron Young is added to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1979
    Sep 12, 1972
    Actor William Boyd dies of heart failure related to Parkinson's disease in Laguna Beach, California. He's best known for his role as silver-screen cowboy Hopalong Cassidy, recognized in the 1974 Roy Rogers hit "Hoppy, Gene And Me"
    Oct 5, 1972
    Fiddler Tommy Magness dies in Georgia. A member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in the early-1940s, he played on Monroe's "Mule Skinner Blues," plus Little Jimmy Dickens' "Take An Old Cold 'Tater (And Wait)"
    Nov 10, 1972
    R&B songwriter Raymond Jackson dies from burns suffered when he tried to kill a rat by dousing a hole in his yard with gasoline. Two of his songs become country hits: "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right" and "Touch A Hand, Make A Friend"
    Nov 11, 1972
    Bass player Berry Oakley, of the Southern rock act The Allman Brothers Band, dies in Macon, Georgia, when his motorcycle collides with a bus. Five years later, the band is celebrated in the Conway Twitty hit "Boogie Grass Band"
    Nov 12, 1972
    Songwriter Rudolf Friml dies in Hollywood. He composed 20 Broadway musicals, including "Indian Love Call" and "Rose Marie." The title songs from both those projects were rejiggered as country hits by Slim Whitman during the 1950s
    Dec 23, 1972
    Body-building icon Charles Atlas dies in New York City. Noted for his magazine ads promising to develop muscles in scrawny men, his name was attached to a country hit earlier in the year: The Statler Brothers' "Do You Remember These"
    Jan 1, 1973
    Songwriter Jack Rollins dies in Cincinnati. He penned Gene Autry's "Frosty The Snow Man" and Hank Snow's "I Don't Hurt Anymore"



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