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    • Oct 19, 1982
    Tenor sax player Jesse Powell dies in New York City. A former band member with Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong, Powell also took part in the session for Bobby Darin's pop/country crossover "Splish Splash"
    Oct 22, 1982
    Fiddler Bert Layne dies in Kentucky. A member of Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers, he played on the 1926 recording "Bully Of The Town," ranked among country's greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Oct 23, 1982
    Hoyt Hawkins dies following a heart attack at his home in Nashville. In 1950, Hawkins joined The Jordanaires, a vocal quartet that provided background to records by Kenny Rogers, Jimmy Dean, Elvis Presley, Tammy Wynette and others, joining the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001
    Nov 23, 1982
    "Hee Haw" comedian Grady Nutt dies in a plane crash in Vinemont, Alabama. A Baptist minister and author, he joined the TV show's cast in 1979
    Dec 8, 1982
    Marty Robbins dies in Nashville of a heart attack just two months after his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. His 30-year career was marked by love songs, pop crossover hits and the classic Western story song "El Paso"
    Dec 10, 1982
    Harmonica player Jimmie Riddle dies of cancer in Nashville. Beginning in 1943, he became a regular member of Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys and spent much of his later years as a member of the "Hee Haw" cast
    Dec 20, 1982
    Record producer Don Law dies in La Marque, Texas. A longtime Columbia executive, he oversaw such hits as Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John," Lefty Frizzell's "Saginaw, Michigan," Johnny Cash's "Ring Of Fire" and Ray Price's "For The Good Times"
    Dec 26, 1982
    Songwriter Roger Bowling is found dead on the couch at his home in Rabun County, Georgia. Bowling wrote Kenny Rogers' "Lucille" and "Coward Of The County"
    Jan 21, 1983
    Lamar Williams, bass player with The Allman Brothers Band, dies of cancer at the Veterans Hospital in Los Angeles. Five years earlier, the group was namechecked in a Conway Twitty hit, "Boogie Grass Band"
    Jan 26, 1983
    Paul "Bear" Bryant, coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide, dies of a heart attack at Druid City Hospital in Tuscaloosa. He's mentioned in the second verse of the 2009 Tim McGraw hit "Southern Voice"



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