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Sep 9, 1978
Jack Warner, the founder of Warner Bros. Records, dies at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. At the time, the Warner/Reprise family's country acts include Emmylou Harris, Margo Smith and Donna Fargo
Sep 30, 1978
Guitarist Bob Gardner dies. He performed for 28 years as one-half of the blind duo Mac & Bob, recording for Brunswick in the 1920s and appearing on numerous radio stations around the country
Oct 21, 1978
Mel Street commits suicide with a self-inflicted gunshot on his 45th birthday at home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. He scored a number of hits on independent labels from 1972-1978, and influenced later country singers Ricky Van Shelton and Marty Raybon, of Shenandoah
Oct 22, 1978
Dorothy Shay dies of a heart attack at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California. Known as the Park Avenue Hillbilly, she scored a 1947 country hit with her version of "Feudin' And Fightin'"
Oct 23, 1978
Mother Maybelle Carter dies at her Nashville home. The Carter Family became the first family of country music after a 1927 session. The trio broke up in 1943, but she rallied her daughters and kept performing. The original lineup joined the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970
Dec 16, 1978
Jenny Lou Carson dies in Torrance, California. A 1971 inductee in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, she wrote Tex Ritter's "Jealous Heart," Eddy Arnold's "Don't Rob Another Man's Castle" and Hank Snow's "Let Me Go, Lover!"
Dec 24, 1978
Derwood Brown, a guitarist with the western swing band Milton Brown's Musical Brownies, dies in Fort Worth, Texas. In addition to his work with The Brownies, he appeared on the seminal Fort Worth Doughboys single "Sunbonnet Sue"
Dec 27, 1978
Bob Luman dies in Nashville from pneumonia. He developed a career that teetered between country and rockabilly, earning five hits from 1960-1974, topped by "Lonely Women Make Good Lovers." He joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1965
Jan 2, 1979
Songwriter Wayne Walker dies in Nashville. A member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, he wrote Ray Price's "I've Got A New Heartache," Janie Fricke's "Pride," Mel Tillis' "Burning Memories" and Patsy Cline's "Leavin' On Your Mind"
Jan 8, 1979
Sara Carter dies in Lodi, California. She was a member of The Carter Family, which recorded such classics as "Wildwood Flower" and "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" and entered the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970
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