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    • May 6, 2002
    Songwriter Otis Blackwell dies in Nashville following a heart attack. He fashioned Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel" and "All Shook Up," plus Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls Of Fire," entering the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1986
    May 17, 2002
    Sharon Sheeley, who wrote the Ricky Nelson hit "Poor Little Fool," dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Sherman Oaks, California
    Aug 2, 2002
    Producer/songwriter Joe Allison dies in Nashville, following a lengthy illness. A former head of Liberty's country division, he wrote "He'll Have To Go" and "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young," entering the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1978
    Aug 17, 2002
    Singer/songwriter Don Winters dies of cancer in Nashville. He had a 1961 hit with "Too Many Times" and wrote the Louvin Brothers' "You're Running Wild"
    Aug 18, 2002
    Songwriter Jonnie Barnett dies at Nashville's Baptist Hospital following a stroke. He wrote the Clay Walker hit "The Chain Of Love" and had bit parts in the motion pictures "Nashville" and "Cheech & Chong's Next Movie"
    Sep 28, 2002
    Songwriter Mickey Newbury dies at home in Vida, Oregon. His credits include Elvis Presley's "An American Trilogy," Jerry Lee Lewis' "She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye" and Don Gibson's "Funny, Familiar, Forgotten Feelings," among others
    Oct 2, 2002
    Former Louisiana state fiddling champion Tex Grimsley dies in Shreveport. He wrote the Webb Pierce hit "Walking The Dog"
    Oct 18, 2002
    Songwriter Donn Hecht dies at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami Beach, following a heart attack. He wrote Patsy Cline's first hit, "Walkin' After Midnight"
    Jan 12, 2003
    Maurice Gibb, of The Bee Gees, dies in a Miami Beach hospital, just days after emergency abdominal surgery. He co-wrote three different Kenny Rogers hits, including the blockbuster "Islands In The Stream"
    Jan 28, 2003
    Lewis Pruitt dies. Recording for the Peach and Decca labels, he earned a trio of country hits from 1959-1961: "Timbrook," "Softly And Tenderly (I'll Hold You In My Arms)" and "Crazy Bullfrog"



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