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Aug 15, 2003

Songwriter Gerry House, the morning air personality on Nashville radio station WSIX, has emergency surgery for a bleeding artery in his brain. Among House's credits: "Little Rock," "On The Side Of Angels" and "The Big One"

Aug 16, 2003

The Postal Service unveils a Henry Mancini stamp during a ceremony at UCLA in Los Angeles. Mancini co-wrote Charley Pride's 1972 country hit "All His Children"

Aug 17, 2003

Songwriter and Nashville radio personality Gerry House has his second brain surgery in a three-day period, this one to relieve swelling and fluid on the brain. House wrote "Little Rock," "The River And The Highway" and "On The Side Of Angels"

Aug 22, 2003

Country Music Hall of Famer Floyd Tillman dies at his home in Bacliff, Texas, of leukemia. Responsible for such songs as "Slipping Around" and "I Love You So Much, It Hurts," he also earned a place in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

Aug 22, 2003

Nashville songwriter and air personality Gerry House has his third surgery in a week for a bleeding artery in his brain

Aug 25, 2003

Songwriter Gerry House is released from a Nashville hospital, 10 days after he checked in with a bleeding artery in his brain, which led to three surgeries

Aug 25, 2003

Sofia Lazarides, the daughter of "Blame It On Your Heart" songwriter Kostas, is abducted in Tennessee. More than five years later, his ex-wife, Hope Lazarides, is charged with the crime

Aug 27, 2003

Singer/songwriter Janis Ian marries her 14-year partner, Patricia Snyder, at the courthouse in Toronto. Ian wrote Judy Rodman's hit "I Want A Love Like That"

Sep 7, 2003

Singer/songwriter Warren Zevon dies at his Los Angeles home a year after being diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. Best known for his rock hit "Werewolves Of London," he wrote Terri Clark's country success, "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me"

Sep 17, 2003

Singer/songwriter/actor Sheb Wooley dies at Nashville's Skyline Medical Center of leukemia. Known for "The Purple People Eater" and a series of parodies under the name Ben Colder, he wrote the "Hee Haw" theme song

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