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    • Jun 17, 1984
    Guy Drake dies at Muhlenberg Community Hospital in Greenville, Kentucky. He created controversy with a 1970 single, "Welfare Cadilac," that ridiculed social programs and their beneficiaries
    Jun 18, 1984
    Songwriter/guitarist Paul Howard dies of heart failure. A member of the Grand Ole Opry beginning in April 1942, he claimed to have been the first musician to play an electric guitar on the show. He also wrote Wesley Tuttle's "With Tears In My Eyes"
    Jul 24, 1984
    Mandolin player Lester McFarland dies in Oliver Springs, Tennessee. He participated in the blind duo Mac & Bob, which began recording in the 1920s and gained fame the following decade on WLS Radio's "National Barn Dance"
    Jul 25, 1984
    Blues singer Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton dies in Los Angeles. She recorded the original version of "Hound Dog," which Elvis Presley remade as a pop and country hit
    Aug 10, 1984
    Banjo player Bill Mounce dies in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He joined Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys in 1945, playing on "White Cross On Okinawa"
    Aug 13, 1984
    Bass player and comedian Bill Wesbrooks dies in Tucker, Georgia. Known as Cousin Wilbur, he appeared in Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys from 1940-1944, playing on such Monroe recordings as "Kentucky Waltz" and "Mule Skinner Blues"
    Aug 15, 1984
    Record producer Norman Petty dies in Lubbock, Texas. Buddy Holly's producer also directed "I'm Stickin' With You" by future Nashville producer Jimmy Bowen and "Sugar Shack" by The Fireballs, plus Billy Walker's "On My Mind Again." Petty also co-wrote "True Love Ways" and "Maybe Baby"
    Sep 6, 1984
    Ernest Tubb dies in Nashville's Baptist Hospital in the presence of his son, Justin Tubb, and Porter Wagoner. A Grand Ole Opry fixture since 1943, his rugged resonance sent him into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1965
    Sep 18, 1984
    Lefty Perkins, a member of The Light Crust Doughboys and Milton Brown's Musical Brownies, dies of cancer. The guitarist joined the Brownies in 1936 after the departure of steel player Bob Dunn
    Sep 20, 1984
    Singer/songwriter Steve Goodman dies at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle of complications from leukemia. He wrote "You Never Even Called Me By My Name," by David Allan Coe; and "City Of New Orleans," by Willie Nelson



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