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Jun 1, 1996
Keyboard player Don Grolnick dies in New York City. A successful session musician during the 1970s and '80s, he played on pop hits by James Taylor, Boz Scaggs and Steely Dan, plus Linda Ronstadt's country success "Blue Bayou"
Jun 7, 1996
Banjo player Courtney Johnson dies of lung cancer in Glasgow, Kentucky. He was an original member of the groundbreaking New Grass Revival
Jun 13, 1996
Songwriter Keith Palmer dies of cancer at his home in White House, Tennessee. His credits included Reba McEntire's "For My Broken Heart" and Johnny Rodriguez' "I Didn't (Every Chance I Had)"
Jun 15, 1996
Jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald dies of diabetes in Beverly Hills, California. She made one brief appearance in the Top 10 of the Billboard country chart, with her 1944 single "When My Sugar Walks Down The Street"
Jun 16, 1996
Anthony Armstrong Jones dies in Shreveport. He earned a country hit in 1970 with a remake of R.B. Greaves' "Take A Letter Maria"
Jul 4, 1996
Arlie Duff dies while playing golf in Waterbury, Connecticut. Duff recorded his lone country hit in 1953 after writing the country anthem "Y'all Come." He also wrote Sonny James' "It's The Little Things"
Jul 14, 1996
Guitarist Randy Bethune dies of cancer at Summit Medical Center in Nashville. He worked for five years as a member of Bill Anderson's Po' Folks road band
Jul 17, 1996
Bass player Chas Chandler dies in England. A former member of the rock band The Animals, he took part in the 1964 pop hit "The House Of The Rising Sun." Dolly Parton earns a country hit with a cover of the song in 1981
Jul 31, 1996
Jay Lee Webb dies of pancreatic cancer at Nashville's Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The brother of Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle, he traveled as a band member with Buck Owens, Ferlin Husky and Slim Whitman
Aug 11, 1996
Following a struggle with cancer, drummer Mel Taylor dies of heart failure in Tarzana, California. A longtime member of the pop instrumental group The Ventures, he also played on two Buck Owens hits: "Together Again" and "My Heart Skips A Beat"
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