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    • Apr 21, 1985
    Songwriter Irving Mills dies in New York. In addition to the jazz classics "Mood Indigo" and "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)," he wrote Hank Williams' breakthrough hit, "Lovesick Blues"
    Jun 17, 1985
    Lee Rosenberg Burrows dies of cancer at her Nashville home. She wrote the Elvis Presley hit "Too Much"
    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 21, 1985
    Fiddler and songwriter Hoyle Nix dies at his home in Big Spring, Texas. He authored the Bob Wills western swing classic "Big Ball's In Cowtown"
    Sep 3, 1985
    Songwriter Johnny Marks dies in a New York hospital. Marks was best known for the Christmas classics "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer," "A Holly Jolly Christmas" and "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree"
    Dec 30, 1985
    Elsie McWilliams dies at her home in Meridian, Mississippi. The sister-in-law of Jimmie Rodgers, she co-wrote numerous Rodgers songs, including "Blue Yodel No. 7 (Anniversary Blue Yodel)," "Waiting For A Train" and "Daddy And Home," landing a place in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
    Mar 4, 1986
    Pop songwriter Howard Greenfield dies of a brain tumor in Los Angeles. Several of his songs became country hits, including "Crying In The Rain," for Tammy Wynette; and "My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own," for Debby Boone
    Apr 23, 1986
    Pop songwriter Harold Arlen dies of cancer in his apartment on New York's Central Park West. His legacy includes the Judy Garland classic "Over The Rainbow," which had been rejuvenated as a country hit five years earlier by Jerry Lee Lewis
    May 1, 1986
    Pop record producer Hugo Peretti dies in Englewood, New Jersey. A co-writer of "Can't Help Falling In Love," he produced records for Sam Cooke, The Stylistics and The Isley Brothers, plus the Jimmie Rodgers crossover hit "Honeycomb"
    Aug 16, 1986
    Songwriter John Hurley dies of liver failure at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville. He wrote "Son-Of-A Preacher Man," a Dusty Springfield hit that is named among the 500 greatest singles in country music history in the Country Music Foundation's 2003 book "Heartaches By The Number"



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