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May 10, 1999

Kris Kristofferson is released from a San Francisco hospital where he's undergone triple-bypass heart surgery

Jun 5, 1999

Irritated by the reams of tour buses bringing fans to take pictures of his house, Waylon Jennings stops a songwriting session with Andy Griggs to chase buses and take photos of fans

Jun 9, 1999

Bruce Springsteen joins the National Songwriters Hall of Fame during a ceremony at the Sheraton New York Hotel, along with Bobby Darin and Sir Tim Rice. Kenny Rogers receives the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award

Jun 12, 1999

"True Grit" songwriter Don Black is named an officer of the Order of the British Empire by the queen in London

Jun 15, 1999

Alabama sells its three publishing companies--Maypop Music, Alabama Band Music and Mountain Flower Music--to Sony/ATV Tree

Jun 22, 1999

"I Love The Way You Love Me" songwriter Victoria Shaw and husband Bob Locknar have a daughter, Ruby Cambridge Locknar, in Nashville

Jun 25, 1999

Tanya Tucker and her fiance, songwriter Jerry Laseter, have a daughter, Layla LaCosta Laseter, at Nashville's Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Jul 24, 1999

Annie Roberts dies in Zephyrhills, Florida. Her husband, Paul Roberts, wrote the World War II Elton Britt hit "There's A Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere"

Sep 12, 1999

Carolyn Abbott dies in Arlington, Texas. Her husband, Jerry Abbott, wrote the Buck Owens & Emmylou Harris country hit "Play Together Again Again"

Sep 16, 1999

Songwriter A.L. "Doodle" Owens suffers a heart attack in Nashville, three days before his induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. His credits include hits by Moe Bandy, Charley Pride, George Jones and Doug Stone

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