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    • Apr 4, 1981
    Songwriter Fred Glickman dies in Los Angeles. His legacy includes "Mule Train," a pop hit for Frankie Laine and a country hit for Tennessee Ernie Ford
    Apr 13, 1981
    Guy Willis, of the Grand Ole Opry trio The Willis Brothers, dies of emphysema at his home in the Nashville area. The group backed Hank Williams on his first four recordings and performed in the historic first concert featuring Opry stars at Washington, D.C.'s Constitution Hall
    Apr 27, 1981
    Denver Darling dies in Jewett, Illinois. He wrote "Silver Stars, Purple Sage, Eyes Of Blue," a 1947 hit for Cliffie Stone
    May 11, 1981
    Reggae musician Bob Marley dies of skin cancer at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami, Florida. His last name is rhymed with Bacardi and Harley in the 2014 Florida Georgia Line country single "Sun Daze." Marley also gets a shout out in the 2020 Luke Bryan hit "One Margarita"
    May 13, 1981
    Cajun accordion player Nathan Abshire dies in Mamou, Louisiana. His 1949 recording of "Pine Grove Blues" is heralded in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number" among the 500 greatest country singles in history
    May 16, 1981
    R&B keyboard player Ernie Freeman dies of a heart attack. Freeman made one showing on the country charts, with his 1958 cover of the instrumental "Raunchy"
    May 25, 1981
    R&B singer/songwriter Roy Brown dies of a heart attack at Pacoima Lutheran Hospital in Los Angeles. He wrote Elvis Presley's "Good Rockin' Tonight" and had a country hit as an artist with the 1948 recording "'Fore Day In The Morning"
    Jun 1, 1981
    Singer/songwriter/guitarist Jimmy Murphy dies of a heart attack. His recordings included "Electricity," ranked among the 500 greatest country singles of all-time in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Jun 9, 1981
    Former Texas Playboys vocalist Eugene "Tagg" Lambert dies of a self-inflicted gunshot in Turkey, Texas. He appeared on the 1968 recording "Southwestern Waltz," which makes it into the 1983 movie "The Right Stuff"
    Jun 23, 1981
    Luther Ossenbrink dies in Marshall, Missouri. Using the stage name Arkie The Arkansas Woodchopper, he spent more than 30 years as a yodeling star of "The WLS Barn Dance" in Chicago



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