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    • Oct 19, 1991
    Grant Turner dies in Nashville, just hours after announcing the evening's Grand Ole Opry show. He served as an announcer for the Opry for 47 years and, in 1981, became the first disc jockey added to the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Oct 20, 1991
    Curt Massey dies at the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California. He played in his sister's band, Louise Massey & The Westerners, which earned crossover hits in the 1930s and '40s. He also wrote the theme to "Petticoat Junction"
    Oct 25, 1991
    Pop singer Margo Sylvia dies of a heart attack in San Diego. A former member of The Tune Weavers, she co-wrote the group's "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby," which Ronnie Milsap revived in country music five years earlier
    Nov 2, 1991
    Songwriter Mort Shuman dies of cancer in London. He wrote several Elvis Presley hits and had country hits with two titles: Dwight Yoakam's "Little Sister" and three separate versions of "Save The Last Dance For Me," by Buck Owens, by Emmylou Harris and by Dolly Parton
    Nov 24, 1991
    Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of the rock group Queen, dies of AIDS at home in London. Eight years later, Dwight Yoakam scores a country hit with a remake of his "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," first exposed in commercials for The Gap
    Nov 28, 1991
    Bass player Wanna Coffman dies from pneumonia at a nursing home in Whitney, Texas. Coffman was the last surviving member of Milton Brown's influential western swing band, The Musical Brownies
    Dec 26, 1991
    Songwriter Sid Wayne dies of kidney failure in Dallas. In addition to the pop hits "See You In September" and "It's Impossible," he wrote Elvis Presley's "I Need Your Love Tonight" and Billy "Crash" Craddock's "I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door"
    Jan 14, 1992
    Woodwind player Charles "Gabe" Ward dies in Oswego, Oregon. He was a member of the comedic "WLS Barn Dance" quartet The Hoosier Hot Shots, appearing on a trio of mid-1940s hits and in several western movies
    Jan 15, 1992
    Bass player Dee Murray dies of a stroke in Nashville. An important member of Elton John's band, he also performed as a backing vocalist on Earl Thomas Conley's "Nobody Falls Like A Fool"
    Jan 24, 1992
    Songwriter Ken Darby dies of a heart ailment in Sherman Oaks, California. He wrote Tennessee Ernie Ford's "River Of No Return," and worked on the music in such films as "The King And I," "Camelot" and "The Wizard Of Oz"



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