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    • Apr 18, 2012
    TV executive Dick Clark dies following a heart attack in Santa Monica, California. The "American Bandstand" host founded a production company, dick clark productions, that handled the Academy of Country Music Awards
    Jun 13, 2012
    Country Music Hall of Fame member Frances Preston dies of congestive heart failure at her Nashville home. She founded the Nashville office of BMI, a performing rights agency that collects and distributes royalties to songwriters
    Jul 3, 2012
    Actor Andy Griffith dies of a heart attack at his home in Manteo, North Carolina. A Grammy winner for the album "I Love To Tell The Story--25 Timeless Hymns," he appeared in the video for Brad Paisley's "Waitin' On A Woman"
    Sep 11, 2012
    "Streets Of Bakersfield" songwriter Homer Joy dies in Las Vegas of complications from a heart transplant
    Feb 22, 2013
    Songwriter Diane Lampert dies of heart failure in New York City. She penned Juice Newton's "Break It To Me Gently," Carl Smith's "Your Name Is Beautiful" and Billy "Crash" Craddock's "Ain't Nothin' Shakin' (But The Leaves On The Trees)"
    Mar 3, 2013
    Woodwind player and Belmont University professor Timmy Tappan dies of a heart attack in Nashville. He was a musical director for Bobby Goldsboro and wrote Lee Greenwood's 1984 country hit "Fool's Gold"
    Mar 7, 2013
    Claude King dies of a heart attack in Shreveport, Louisiana. He earned a half-dozen country hits during the 1960s, topped by the #1 single "Wolverton Mountain"
    Jun 19, 2013
    Slim Whitman dies of heart failure at the Orange Park Medical Center in Florida. The yodeling vocalist rang up eight country hits in the 1950s and sold additional recordings in the early-1980s by marketing his music on late-night TV ads
    Jul 3, 2013
    Songwriter Johnny MacRae dies of heart disease at his home in Ashland City, Tennessee. He wrote BlackHawk's "Goodbye Says It All," Highway 101's "Whiskey, If You Were A Woman," Conway Twitty's "I'd Love To Lay You Down" and Doug Stone's "I'd Be Better Off (In A Pine Box)," among others
    Sep 17, 2014
    George Hamilton IV dies at Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital in Nashville, days after suffering a heart attack. Added to the Grand Ole Opry cast in 1961, his folk-tinged brand of country included the #1 single "Abilene." He was among the first U.S. country stars to consistently court an overseas audience



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