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    • Oct 20, 1983
    Merle Travis dies following a massive coronary in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Peaking as an artist during the 1940s, he also wrote Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Sixteen Tons," was recognized as a stellar guitarist, and joined the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1977
    Oct 24, 1983
    Kirk McGee dies in Franklin, Tennessee. Along with sibling Sam, The McGee Brothers were early performers on the Grand Ole Opry, backing Uncle Dave Macon, and remaining Opry members into the 1970s
    Nov 13, 1983
    Comedian Junior Samples dies at Forsyth County Hospital following a heart attack at his home in Cumming, Georgia. Samples was best known for his "Hee Haw" role as a used-car salesman, in which he would announce a telephone number, BR5-49
    Nov 19, 1983
    Pop songwriter Carolyn Leigh dies of a heart attack in New York City. Seventeen years later, her best-known song, "Young At Heart," is revived by Willie Nelson and included on the "Space Cowboys" soundtrack
    Nov 23, 1983
    Badfinger bass player Tom Evans commits suicide in New Haw, England, just months after T.G. Sheppard scored a minor country hit with a remake of "Without You," which Evans co-wrote. Evans was reportedly in a battle over royalties on the song
    Dec 3, 1983
    Songwriter Irving Taylor dies in Westlake Village, California. A co-writer of Dean Martin's "Everybody Loves Somebody," he also penned a Tennessee Ernie Ford duet with Kay Starr, "Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own"
    Dec 8, 1983
    Actor Louis Lindley Jr.--a.k.a. Slim Pickens--dies of a brain tumor in Modesto, California. A frequent sidekick of Rex Allen in 1950s westerns, he also worked with Kris Kristofferson and appeared in Willie Nelson's 1980 picture "Honeysuckle Rose"
    Dec 23, 1983
    "Drivin' Nails In My Coffin" songwriter Jerry Irby dies in Gray Hawk, Kentucky. As an artist, he scored a pair of hits in 1948: "Cryin' In My Beer" and "Great Long Pistol"
    Jan 21, 1984
    R&B vocalist Jackie Wilson dies of a heart attack in New Jersey nine years after suffering a stroke during a concert. Wilson had a hit in the 1950s with "Lonely Teardrops," remade for the country audience in 1976 by Narvel Felts
    Jan 28, 1984
    Al Dexter dies of a heart attack in Denton, Texas. His career, which included both western swing and honky-tonk, was best known for 1944's "Pistol Packin' Mama"



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