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Jan 12, 1978
Fiddler Paul Warren dies in Nashville. He played with Flatt & Scruggs and appeared on a number of Kitty Wells hits, including "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," "Release Me" and "Paying For That Back Street Affair"
Jan 23, 1978
Vic Ames, one-fourth of The Ames Brothers, dies in an ice-related car accident in Nashville. Prominent in the 1950s, the group had a pop hit with the 1956 release "It Only Hurts For A Little While," remade for the country charts by Margo Smith just weeks before Ames' death
Feb 5, 1978
Singer/songwriter Armand "Eddie" Noack dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Houston. He fashioned a lengthy recording history but is best known as the writer of Hank Snow's 1955 hit "These Hands"
Feb 18, 1978
Hattie Louise Bess--better known as "Tootsie"--dies in Nashville. Her bar on Lower Broadway, Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, became a hangout for Harlan Howard, Mel Tillis, Willie Nelson, Faron Young and others after she bought it in 1960
Mar 13, 1978
Roy Hogsed dies at his home in Vista, California. A former president of the International Order of Odd Fellows, he netted one country hit in 1948 by recording Woody Guthrie's "Cocaine Blues"
Jun 3, 1978
"Back Street Affair" songwriter Billy Wallace dies
Jun 12, 1978
Johnny Bond dies of a heart attack at the St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. A movie sidekick to Gene Autry and Tex Ritter, as well as an artist and songwriter in his own right, he lands a spot in the Country Music Hall of Fame two decades later
Jun 19, 1978
Mabel Wayne, hailed as America's first female songwriter, dies in Glen Cove, New York. Fifty years prior, she had a pop hit when Gene Austin covered "Ramona," which Billy Walker converted into a country hit in 1968
Jul 24, 1978
Foy Willing dies in Nashville. He founded the Riders Of The Purple Sage, with whom he recorded from 1943-1952, and continued to appear in western films for the remainder of his life
Aug 24, 1978
Bandleader and trumpet player Louis Prima dies in a New Orleans nursing home. He wrote the pop standard "Sunday Kind Of Love," destined to become a country hit 10 years later for Reba McEntire
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