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    • Nov 13, 1983
    Comedian Junior Samples dies at Forsyth County Hospital following a heart attack at his home in Cumming, Georgia. Samples was best known for his "Hee Haw" role as a used-car salesman, in which he would announce a telephone number, BR5-49
    Nov 19, 1983
    Pop songwriter Carolyn Leigh dies of a heart attack in New York City. Seventeen years later, her best-known song, "Young At Heart," is revived by Willie Nelson and included on the "Space Cowboys" soundtrack
    Jan 21, 1984
    R&B vocalist Jackie Wilson dies of a heart attack in New Jersey nine years after suffering a stroke during a concert. Wilson had a hit in the 1950s with "Lonely Teardrops," remade for the country audience in 1976 by Narvel Felts
    Jan 28, 1984
    Al Dexter dies of a heart attack in Denton, Texas. His career, which included both western swing and honky-tonk, was best known for 1944's "Pistol Packin' Mama"
    May 26, 1984
    Onie Wheeler, the harmonica player in Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys, dies of cardiac arrest during videotaping of "Grand Ole Gospel Time" on the stage at the Grand Ole Opry House
    Jun 18, 1984
    Songwriter/guitarist Paul Howard dies of heart failure. A member of the Grand Ole Opry beginning in April 1942, he claimed to have been the first musician to play an electric guitar on the show. He also wrote Wesley Tuttle's "With Tears In My Eyes"
    Jan 28, 1985
    Appalachian fiddler Tommy Jarrell dies from heart failure in Mount Airy, North Carolina. Three years earlier, he received a National Heritage Fellowship honor from the National Endowment for the Arts
    Feb 11, 1985
    Banjo player Rudy Lyle dies from a heart attack at Williamson County Hospital in Tennessee. A former member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, he appeared on Monroe's classic "Uncle Pen"
    Jul 17, 1985
    Wynn Stewart dies from a heart attack at his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. A major link in the Bakersfield Sound, he had a half-dozen hits from 1960-1976, topped by 1967's "It's Such A Pretty World Today"
    Aug 23, 1985
    Mel McDaniel's father, Olan McDaniel, dies of a heart attack in Tahlequah, Oklahoma



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