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Apr 11, 1977
Songwriter Eddie Miller dies of a heart attack at his Nashville home. A 1975 addition to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, his credits include: Ray Price's "Release Me," Eddy Arnold's "After Loving You" and Ernest Tubb's "Thanks A Lot"
Apr 29, 1977
Songwriter Ashley Gorley is born in Danville, Kentucky. He fashions such hits as Sam Hunt's "Hard To Forget," Carrie Underwood's "Good Girl," Luke Bryan's "What Makes You Country" and Thomas Rhett's "Life Changes"
May 20, 1977
"Georgia On My Mind" songwriter Hoagy Carmichael marries Wanda McKay at the Palm Desert Community Church in California
Jun 14, 1977
Songwriter Paul Williams runs an ad in daily trade magazine Variety insisting he and his wife will not buy orange juice while anti-gay activist Anita Bryant is a citrus spokesperson. Williams' future includes a country hit: Diamond Rio's "You're Gone"
Jun 23, 1977
Pop singer/songwriter Jason Mraz is born in Mechanicsville, Virginia. Known for his hits "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)" and "I'm Yours," he co-writes The Zac Brown Band's 2013 country hit "Jump Right In"
Jul 29, 1977
Brian Burton is born in White Plains, New York. Known professionally as hip-hop artist Danger Mouse, he co-writes Gnarls Barkley's pop hit "Crazy." When a fragment of that inspires a line in a Brett Eldredge single, Burton receives a writing credit on the 2015 country hit "Lose My Mind"
Sep 11, 1977
Songwriter Bernie Taupin portrays a rock star in the first part of a two-part episode of ABC's "The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries." Elton John's primary lyricist, Taupin will write Willie Nelson & Lee Ann Womack's "Mendocino County Line"
Sep 13, 1977
Pop singer/songwriter Fiona Apple is born in New York City. In 2003, she's nominated along with Johnny Cash for a country Grammy award after collaborating with the Man in Black on "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Sep 21, 1977
Singer/songwriter Bill LaBounty records "This Night Won't Last Forever" at the Creative Workshop in Nashville. The song becomes a pop hit for Michael Johnson in 1979 and a country hit for Sawyer Brown in 1997
Oct 9, 1977
The Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame inducts Kris Kristofferson, Woody Guthrie, Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash
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