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    • Feb 4, 1975
    Jazz and blues musician Louis Jordan dies following a heart attack in Los Angeles. Jordan landed three different titles on the Billboard country singles chart during 1944, the list's first year of existence
    Feb 17, 1975
    Eck Robertson dies in Borger, Texas. The fiddler was best known for his performance of "Sally Gooden," recorded in July 1922, one day after he joined Henry Gilliland to conduct country music's very first session
    Mar 14, 1975
    Songwriter Haven Gillespie dies in Las Vegas. In addition to the holiday classic "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town," he wrote The Hoosier Hot Shots' "Breezin' Along With The Breeze" and the western-swing classic "Right Or Wrong"
    Mar 27, 1975
    Billy Gray, a guitarist who played on Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side Of Life," dies from a heart attack during surgery in Dallas. Gray joined Wanda Jackson for a duet hit in 1954 with "You Can't Have My Love"
    Apr 23, 1975
    Badfinger guitarist Pete Ham commits suicide by hanging himself in the garage of his home in London. He co-wrote the Nilsson pop hit "Without You," remade by T.G. Sheppard during the early-1980s
    May 13, 1975
    Bob Wills dies of heart complications, caused by a stroke, in Fort Worth, Texas. The bandleader was the best-known western-swing performer, with recordings such as "Faded Love" and "San Antonio Rose" landing him in the Country Music Hall of Fame
    May 30, 1975
    Banjo player Claude Lampley dies in Nashville. He was a founding member of The Fruit Jar Drinkers, a string band that held down a spot on the Grand Ole Opry from the 1920s until the 1970s
    Jun 10, 1975
    Darrell Edwards, who co-wrote "Why Baby Why" with George Jones, commits suicide, shooting himself in the head with a shotgun
    Jun 16, 1975
    R&B label executive/songwriter Don Robey dies in Houston. Affiliated with such acts as Bobby "Blue" Bland and Johnny Ace, Robey wrote two songs that become country hits in the 1980s: "Share Your Love With Me," for Kenny Rogers; and "Pledging My Love," for Emmylou Harris
    Jul 1, 1975
    Beauregard, the lazy bloodhound on "Hee Haw," dies from a kidney infection



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