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    • Feb 25, 1989
    Singer/songwriter Mark Luna moves to Nashville. He goes on to write Lee Roy Parnell's "When A Woman Loves A Man" and to contribute background vocals to country hits by Lari White and Chad Brock
    Mar 8, 1989
    Singer/songwriter Stuart Hamblen dies of brain cancer in Santa Monica, California. His mix of gospel and cowboy music made him the first western singer to appear on Los Angeles radio, and, in 1976, brought him a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame
    Mar 26, 1989
    Vancleave, Mississippi, honors a native son with Paul Overstreet Day
    Apr 10, 1989
    "Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses" takes Single Record of the Year for Kathy Mattea and producer Allen Reynolds and Song of the Year for Mattea and songwriters Gene and Paul Nelson at the 24th annual Academy Of Country Music awards, aired on NBC from the Disney Studios in Burbank
    Apr 18, 1989
    Tom T. Hall's brother, Hillman Hall, dies in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Hillman wrote Johnny Rodriguez' debut single, "Pass Me By (If You're Only Passing Through)"
    Apr 30, 1989
    Brandon Lancaster is born. He becomes the lead singer of LANCO, the Academy of Country Music's New Group of the Year in 2019. Lancaster writes the band's first two hits, "Greatest Love Story" and "Born To Love You"
    May 2, 1989
    Songwriter Bennie Benjamin dies at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. He authored the Charlie Rich hit "I Don't See Me In Your Eyes Anymore," as well as "I'll Never Be Free," a hit originally for Kay Starr & Tennessee Ernie Ford and again for Jim Ed Brown & Helen Cornelius
    May 11, 1989
    Roy Orbison is inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame during an event at New York's Radio City Music Hall
    May 21, 1989
    Songwriter Ed Nelson Jr. dies. A 1973 inductee in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, he authored several Eddy Arnold hits, including "Show Me The Way Back To Your Heart," "Will Santa Come To Shanty Town" and "I'm Throwing Rice (At The Girl That I Love)"
    Aug 17, 1989
    Singer/songwriter Mitchell Tenpenny is born in Nashville. A co-writer of Granger Smith's "If The Boot Fits," Tenpenny collects his first hit as an artist with the 2018 single "Drunk Me"



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