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    • Apr 28, 1980
    Bass player Tommy Caldwell dies in a car crash in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He was a member of the Southern rock group The Marshall Tucker Band, playing on "Can't You See," covered for the country charts by Waylon Jennings in 1976
    Jun 21, 1980
    Pop musician and songwriter Bert Kaempfert dies of a stroke in Switzerland. He wrote "Strangers In The Night," "Wooden Heart," "Danke Schoen" and "Spanish Eyes," the latter a 1988 country hit for Willie Nelson with Julio Iglesias
    Jul 15, 1980
    Bandleader Ben Selvin dies of a heart attack on New York's Long Island. A pioneering recording artist, he snapped up a #1 pop single in 1927 with "Blue Skies," a song readapted for country music by Willie Nelson in 1978
    Jul 23, 1980
    Former Grateful Dead keyboard player Keith Godchaux dies in an automobile accident in Marin County, California. The Dead will be referenced in Lonestar's 1996 country hit "No News"
    Oct 15, 1980
    Bobby Lester, who sang lead on The Moonglows' 1955 R&B hit "Sincerely," dies of cancer in Louisville, Kentucky. The song is remade for the country charts in 1988 by The Forester Sisters
    Dec 8, 1980
    John Lennon dies of a gun shot from a disturbed fan outside his New York home, the Dakota. Songs Lennon co-wrote as a member of The Beatles will become 1980s country hits for Sweethearts Of The Rodeo and Rosanne Cash
    Jan 2, 1981
    Tenor David Lynch dies of cancer in Carson, California. The singer was a member of The Platters when they scored a 1955 pop hit with "Only You (And You Alone)." The song will became a country hit in 1982 in the hands of Reba McEntire
    May 11, 1981
    Reggae musician Bob Marley dies of skin cancer at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami, Florida. His last name is rhymed with Bacardi and Harley in the 2014 Florida Georgia Line country single "Sun Daze." Marley also gets a shout out in the 2020 Luke Bryan hit "One Margarita"
    May 16, 1981
    R&B keyboard player Ernie Freeman dies of a heart attack. Freeman made one showing on the country charts, with his 1958 cover of the instrumental "Raunchy"
    May 25, 1981
    R&B singer/songwriter Roy Brown dies of a heart attack at Pacoima Lutheran Hospital in Los Angeles. He wrote Elvis Presley's "Good Rockin' Tonight" and had a country hit as an artist with the 1948 recording "'Fore Day In The Morning"



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