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Dec 31, 2018
Ray Sawyer dies in his sleep in Daytona Beach, Florida. He was the lead singer for Dr. Hook, a pop band that came to prominence in the early 1970s with two hits that led to country covers: Bobby Bare's "Sylvia's Mother" and Buck Owens' "On The Cover Of The Music City News"
Feb 21, 2019
Bass player Peter Tork dies of cancer in Mansfield, Connecticut. He was a member of The Monkees, a 1960s pop band whose single "Last Train To Clarksville" was ranked among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
Sep 23, 2019
Songwriter Robert Hunter dies at his residence in San Rafael, California. He was a non-performing member of The Grateful Dead, who were inserted into the lyrics of Lonestar's 1996 country hit "No News"
Dec 12, 2019
Pop singer/songwriter Jack Scott dies at Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital in Warren, Michigan. He wrote his own 1960 hit, "What In The World's Come Over You," which Sonny James turned into a country hit in 1975
Jan 26, 2020
Bob Shane, the last original member of The Kingston Trio, dies with pneumonia in Phoenix. His group won the first Grammy for Best Country & Western Performance in 1959 for "Tom Dooley"
May 9, 2020
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member Little Richard dies of bone cancer in Nashville. A flamboyant rock and R&B pioneer in the 1950s, he saw two of his songs become hits for country stars: Billy "Crash" Craddock's cover of "Slippin' And Slidin'" and Waylon Jennings' version of "Lucille (You Won't Do Your Daddy's Will)"
Jun 8, 2020
Bonnie Pointer dies of cardiac arrest at home in Los Angeles. She was a member of The Pointer Sisters, an R&B act that earned a Grammy award in the country field for "Fairytale," which she co-wrote with sister Anita Pointer
Sep 21, 2020
Singer/songwriter Roy Head dies at his home in Porter, Texas. He earned a #2 pop single in 1965 with "Treat Her Right," which became a country hit when Barbara Mandrell remade it as "Treat Him Right." Head became a country artist in the 1970s. Son Sundance Head won NBC's "The Voice" in December 2016
Dec 29, 2020
Phyllis McGuire dies at her home in Las Vegas. She was a member of the trio The McGuire Sisters, who developed a string of harmony-laden pop hits in the 1950s. Among them was their 1954 release "Sincerely," which was later turned into a country hit by The Forester Sisters
Jan 23, 2021
Pop and country singer Jimmie Rodgers dies of kidney disease in Palm Desert, California, after contracting COVID-19. He scored 1950s hits with "Honeycomb," "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" and "Oh-Oh, I'm Falling In Love." In 1967, he suffered a head injury after an encounter with Los Angeles police that remains a mystery
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