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May 21, 1989
Songwriter Ed Nelson Jr. dies. A 1973 inductee in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, he authored several Eddy Arnold hits, including "Show Me The Way Back To Your Heart," "Will Santa Come To Shanty Town" and "I'm Throwing Rice (At The Girl That I Love)"
Jun 18, 1989
Cecil Campbell dies in Charlotte, North Carolina. He appeared with his band, The Tennessee Ramblers, in Tex Ritter's 1941 movie "Ridin' The Cherokee Trail" and earned a hit in 1949 with "Steel Guitar Ramble"
Jul 15, 1989
Record executive Jim Stanton dies at his home in Johnson City, Tennessee. He founded Rich-R-Tone Records, a label that released a series of significant bluegrass records by The Stanley Brothers in the 1940s
Aug 6, 1989
Film producer Nat Levine dies in Woodland Hills, California. He oversaw the production of many of Gene Autry's movies
Aug 6, 1989
Steel guitarist Billy Bowman, formerly of Bob Wills' Texas Playboys, dies of cancer in Columbia, South Carolina. He played on the classic "Faded Love" during his Playboys tenure, 1950-1957
Aug 7, 1989
T.C. "Son" Lansford dies in Fort Worth, Texas. He played bass for Bob Wills' Texas Playboys from 1935-1941, appearing on such titles as "Take Me Back To Tulsa," "Ida Red," "San Antonio Rose" and "Maiden's Prayer"
Aug 21, 1989
"Hee Haw" director Bob Boatman dies at home in Hendersonville, Tennessee, when a gun falls out of a drawer on a cabinet he's moving and fires a bullet into his stomach
Sep 16, 1989
Guitarist Billy Thompson dies in Texas. He was the leader of Hank Thompson's Brazos Valley Boys during the early 1960s
Sep 22, 1989
Songwriter Irving Berlin dies in New York. He wrote "Blue Skies," which became a hit from Willie Nelson's album "Stardust"; and penned "Annie Get Your Gun," which brings Reba McEntire to Broadway in 2001
Sep 23, 1989
Bradley Kincaid dies at Good Shepherd Valley nursing home in Springfield, Ohio. One of country's first radio stars, he was a staple of WLS' "National Barn Dance" from 1926-1929 and performed on WSM's Grand Ole Opry from 1944-1950
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