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    • Jan 18, 1985
    Singer/songwriter Werly Fairburn dies of lung cancer in Los Angeles. A former "Louisiana Hayride" star, he authored Carl Smith's "I Feel Like Cryin'" and Jim Reeves' "I Guess I'm Crazy"
    Jan 28, 1985
    Appalachian fiddler Tommy Jarrell dies from heart failure in Mount Airy, North Carolina. Three years earlier, he received a National Heritage Fellowship honor from the National Endowment for the Arts
    Jan 31, 1985
    Pop singer Barbara Cowsill dies from emphysema in Arizona. Along with her six kids, she formed The Cowsills, whose 1968 hit "Indian Lake" was successfully remade for country consumption by Freddy Weller
    Feb 11, 1985
    Banjo player Rudy Lyle dies from a heart attack at Williamson County Hospital in Tennessee. A former member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, he appeared on Monroe's classic "Uncle Pen"
    Feb 13, 1985
    Songwriter Al Jacobs dies in Baltimore, Maryland. He wrote Margo Smith's "If I Give My Heart To You," plus the classic "Hurt," which becomes a country hit the next year for Juice Newton
    Mar 10, 1985
    Pioneering country executive Polk Brockman dies at Florida Hospital in Orlando. Working in Atlanta, he aided Ralph Peer in recording Fiddlin' John Carson's first session in 1924, making him one of the genre's earliest record producers
    Mar 17, 1985
    Songwriter Jimmy Gately, a former member of Bill Anderson's Po' Boys, dies in Nashville. His credits include: Anderson's "Bright Lights And Country Music," Webb Pierce's "Alla My Love" and Sonny James' "The Minute You're Gone"
    Apr 6, 1985
    Guitarist Gene Martin dies. He worked with Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys and played on two Hank Snow hits
    Apr 21, 1985
    Songwriter Irving Mills dies in New York. In addition to the jazz classics "Mood Indigo" and "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)," he wrote Hank Williams' breakthrough hit, "Lovesick Blues"
    Jun 17, 1985
    Lee Rosenberg Burrows dies of cancer at her Nashville home. She wrote the Elvis Presley hit "Too Much"



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