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Mar 9, 1996
George Burns dies at his home in Beverly Hills, California. The comedian and actor played opposite John Denver in the 1977 movie "Oh, God!" and garnered one minor country hit, 1980's "I Wish I Was Eighteen Again"
Mar 14, 1996
Fiddler Dale Potter dies in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, following a massive stroke. He played on Hank Williams' "Mind Your Own Business," and recorded with George Jones, Webb Pierce, Little Jimmy Dickens, The Everly Brothers and Cowboy Copas
Mar 17, 1996
Songwriter Terry Stafford dies in Amarillo, Texas. His credits include Buck Owens' "Big In Vegas" and George Strait's "Amarillo By Morning"
Mar 23, 1996
Songwriter J.D. Miller dies in Lafayette, Louisiana, following quadruple bypass surgery. He wrote Kitty Wells' "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" and Jimmy C. Newman's first hit, "Cry, Cry Darling"
Mar 24, 1996
Maggie Cavender dies at Baptist Hospital in Nashville of complications from a stroke. She served for many years as the first executive director of the Nashville Songwriters Association International
Mar 29, 1996
Saxophone player Glenn Rhees dies in Oklahoma. A former member of Bob Wills' Texas Playboys, he appeared on "Heart To Heart Talk"
Apr 22, 1996
Songwriter Fred Kirby dies in his sleep at his home in Indian Trail, North Carolina. He authored The Buchanan Brothers' nuclear-fueled 1946 hit "Atomic Power"
May 3, 1996
Patsy Montana dies of heart failure at her home in San Jacinto, California, months before entering the Country Music Hall of Fame. She was the first female country artist to gain a million-selling single, with "I Wanna Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart"
May 11, 1996
A ValuJet flight crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing more than 100 people, including country singer/songwriter Walter Hyatt, a musical compadre of David Ball and Lyle Lovett
May 31, 1996
Bass singer Elsbeary Hobbs dies in New York. In the 1950s, he joined The Drifters, contributing to "Save The Last Dance For Me," remade on three occasions as a country hit--by Buck Owens, Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton
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