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    • Nov 8, 1968
    Blues singer and songwriter James "Kokomo" Arnold dies in Chicago. He wrote "Milk Cow Blues," a 1941 hit for Johnnie Lee Wills
    Dec 10, 1968
    Singer/songwriter Billy Cox dies. He is best remembered for writing a pair of country standards: "Filipino Baby," a hit for Ernest Tubb and Cowboy Copas; and "Sparkling Brown Eyes," a success for Webb Pierce
    Mar 30, 1969
    Songwriter Ed Nelson dies in Miami. The father of fellow writers Steve Nelson and Ed Nelson Jr., the senior Nelson penned Bob Wills' "Hang Your Head In Shame" and Hank Williams' "Settin' The Woods On Fire"
    May 22, 1969
    Pop songwriter Jimmy McHugh dies in Beverly Hills. He earned country hits as a writer of Ella Fitzgerald's "When My Sugar Walks Down The Street" and Jimmy Wakely's duet with Margaret Whiting, "When You And I Were Young Maggie Blues"
    Jul 28, 1969
    Broadway composer Frank Loesser dies of lung cancer in New York City. His successes include several songs remade for the country charts: "Baby, It's Cold Outside," "Wave To Me, My Lady" and "Jingle! Jangle! Jingle!"
    Sep 11, 1969
    Songwriter Leon Payne dies in San Antonio, Texas. His credits include Hank Williams' "Lost Highway," Jim Reeves' "Blue Side Of Lonesome" and his own recording of "I Love You Because"
    Nov 23, 1969
    Singer/songwriter Spade Cooley dies of a heart attack after a benefit concert for the Alameda County Sheriff's Association. His three-song set included "San Antonio Rose." After serving eight years in prison for killing his wife, he was set for parole on February 22, 1970
    Jul 7, 1970
    Pop songwriter Charles Tobias dies in Manhasset, New York. Along with "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone But Me)," he wrote "The Old Lamplighter," a 1960 pop-country crossover hit for The Browns
    Jul 13, 1970
    Pop songwriter L. Wolfe Gilbert dies following a stroke in Los Angeles just two years after Billy Walker revived his 1920s hit "Ramona" in country music
    Sep 5, 1970
    Curley Williams dies in Montgomery, Alabama. He wrote Hank Williams' "Half As Much," and recorded for Columbia as the leader of the Georgia Peach Pickers



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