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    • Nov 27, 1973
    Hank Snow's guitar player, Jimmy Widener, is robbed and shot to death in Nashville. Widener also played banjo for Bob Wills' Texas Playboys from 1945-1950, appearing on "Faded Love," among other recordings
    Dec 20, 1973
    Pop singer Bobby Darin dies of heart failure at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. His "Splish Splash" crossed into the country charts, and his "Dream Lover" was remade as a country hit by Billy "Crash" Craddock
    Dec 25, 1973
    Carl Perkins' brother, Clayton, commits suicide with a .22 caliber handgun in Jackson, Tennessee. Clayton played bass on "Blue Suede Shoes"
    Jan 2, 1974
    Tex Ritter dies at Nashville's Baptist Hospital of a heart attack, suffered at the Davidson County jail, where he bailed out a member of his band. The western movie star was a member of the Grand Ole Opry and a 1964 inductee in the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Feb 23, 1974
    Songwriter Harry Ruby dies in Woodland Hills, California. His song, "Who's Sorry Now?," became a 1923 pop hit before it was recorded by Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies. The song also became a pop hit for Connie Francis
    Mar 28, 1974
    Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup dies in Nassawadox, Virginia, following a stroke. The blues singer/songwriter wrote the Elvis Presley recordings "That's All Right, Mama" and "My Baby Left Me"
    Apr 26, 1974
    The Sons Of The Pioneers' Tim Spencer dies of a stroke at the Desert Knolls Hospital in Victorville, California. Known for its western harmony and the classics "Cool Water" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," the group joins the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980
    Jun 27, 1974
    Songwriter Cliff Friend dies in Las Vegas, Nevada. His biggest song, "Lovesick Blues," vaulted Hank Williams from obscurity to fame in 1949
    Jul 17, 1974
    Guitarist/harmony vocalist Don Rich dies in a motorcycle accident near Morro Beach, California. A member of Buck Owens' Buckaroos, he provided some of the inspiration in the group's sound and co-wrote "Before You Go" and "Waitin' In Your Welfare Line"
    Aug 26, 1974
    Aviator Charles Lindbergh dies in Kipahulu, Hawaii. The first pilot to fly solo from New York to Paris, he was mentioned in Bill Anderson's 1970 country hit "Where Have All Our Heroes Gone"



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