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Aug 1, 1987
Fiddler Howard "Howdy" Forrester dies of cancer in Nashville. He was a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in the 1940s and Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys in the '50s, and played on hits by Hank Thompson and Kitty Wells
Aug 4, 1987
Kenny Price dies at Memorial Hospital in Florence, Kentucky, a day after suffering a heart attack. The "Hee Haw" comedian earned four Top 10 singles from 1966-1971
Aug 27, 1987
Singer/songwriter Benny Barnes dies in Beaumont, Texas. More than three decades earlier, he scored his lone country hit, "Poor Man's Riches," for the Starday label
Aug 29, 1987
Comedian Archie Campbell dies in Knoxville following a heart attack. Following his 1958 membership in the Grand Ole Opry, he gained national fame as a cast member of "Hee Haw" with regular routines built around mangled, mispronounced words
Sep 11, 1987
Actor Lorne Greene dies of cardiac arrest at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California. Greene's 1964 pop recording of the recitation "Ringo" also found minor success in country music. Greene was best known for his role in "Bonanza," which featured a theme song by guitarist Joe Maphis
Sep 17, 1987
Banjo player Kenny "Rudy" Trietsch dies in Los Angeles, California. He was a member of the comedic "WLS Barn Dance" band The Hoosier Hot Shots, who scored a trio of mid-1940s hits and appeared in a string of westerns
Sep 23, 1987
O.B. McClinton dies from abdominal cancer in Nashville. Nicknamed the "Chocolate Cowboy," the African-American performer's "Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You" ranks among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number"
Oct 4, 1987
Jimmy Springs dies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Los Angeles R&B group The 5 Red Caps, whose 1944 recording "I Learned A Lesson, I'll Never Forget" appeared on an early version of the Billboard country chart
Dec 5, 1987
Harry "Pappy" Daily dies in Houston. Daily founded Starday Records and produced The Big Bopper, Gene Pitney and George Jones
Dec 5, 1987
Molly O'Day dies from cancer in Huntington, West Virginia. A hard-country singer who peaked in the 1940s, she was best known for her single "Tramp On The Street," ranked among country's all-time greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
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