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Jul 14, 1985
Lily May Ledford dies in Lexington, Kentucky. Leader of The Coon Creek Girls, she was also the mother of Exile's J.P. Pennington
Jul 16, 1985
Dance band leader Wayne King dies in Paradise Valley, Arizona. Nicknamed "The Waltz King," he had the biggest version of the 1931 pop hit "I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)." The song was covered for country fans in 1977 by Marty Robbins
Jul 17, 1985
Wynn Stewart dies from a heart attack at his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. A major link in the Bakersfield Sound, he had a half-dozen hits from 1960-1976, topped by 1967's "It's Such A Pretty World Today"
Aug 21, 1985
Fiddler and songwriter Hoyle Nix dies at his home in Big Spring, Texas. He authored the Bob Wills western swing classic "Big Ball's In Cowtown"
Sep 3, 1985
Songwriter Johnny Marks dies in a New York hospital. Marks was best known for the Christmas classics "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer," "A Holly Jolly Christmas" and "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree"
Sep 15, 1985
Charles "Cootie" Williams dies in New York City. A jazz trumpet player, his 1944 single "Red Blues" made an unlikely entry onto the Billboard folk hit parade, an early version of the magazine's country charts
Oct 6, 1985
Banjo player Amos Binkley dies. He was formerly a member of The Binkley Brothers, who took part in the first Nashville recording session in 1928
Oct 11, 1985
Tex Williams dies of pancreatic cancer at Newhall Community Hospital in California. His talking novelty "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" provided Capitol Records its first million-selling country single in 1947
Oct 23, 1985
Merle Watson dies in a North Carolina tractor accident. The son of Doc Watson, he played banjo and guitar with his influential father from 1964 until his death
Nov 12, 1985
"Renfro Valley Barn Dance" founder John Lair dies at Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. The show, established in 1937, spent 20 years on radio stations WLW, in Cincinnati, followed by WHAS, in Louisville
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