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Aug 18, 2004
Film composer Elmer Bernstein dies in his sleep at his home in Ojai, California. Among his writing credits were a pair of country hits: Johnny Cash's "The Sons Of Katie Elder" and Glen Campbell's "True Grit"
Aug 22, 2004
Brooks & Dunn and Gretchen Wilson play the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, where the slogan on a T-shirt inspires Ronnie Dunn to write "Cowgirls Don't Cry"
Aug 23, 2004
Del Bryant, who wrote Billy "Crash" Craddock's "I Cheated On A Good Woman's Love," succeeds Frances Preston as the president and CEO of the songwriter performing rights organization BMI
Aug 24, 2004
Emergent releases "Beautiful Dreamer - The Songs Of Stephen Foster," a tribute album featuring Raul Malo, Suzy Bogguss, Alison Krauss, Mark O'Connor, Edgar Meyer, Roger McGuinn, David Ball, Pete Anderson, Mavis Staples, BR5-49 and John Prine, among others
Sep 2, 2004
"Ring Of Fire" songwriter Merle Kilgore, the manager of Hank Williams Jr., undergoes back surgery in Memphis
Sep 2, 2004
Songwriter Billy Davis dies in New Rochelle, New York. Also using the alias Tyran Carlo, he penned Jackie Wilson's R&B hit "Lonely Teardrops," which became a country hit for Narvel Felts, as well as Dottie West's "Country Sunshine"
Sep 7, 2004
Songwriter L.E. White dies at his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. He wrote numerous solo and duet hits for Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn, including "After The Fire Is Gone," "To See My Angel Cry" and "We've Come A Long Way, Baby"
Sep 11, 2004
Broadway lyricist Fred Ebb dies of a heart attack in New York. The author of "New York, New York" and the musical "Chicago," he also wrote Eddy Arnold's 1955 country hit "That Do Make It Nice"
Sep 23, 2004
Grand Ole Opry member Roy Drusky dies at the Highland Manor Nursing Home in Portland, Tennessee. A silky vocalist, he earned a dozen hits in the early-1960s and wrote the Faron Young singles "Alone With You" and "Country Girl"
Sep 26, 2004
Songwriter Jim Hurt dies of liver cancer at his Nashville home. He wrote Alabama's "Love In The First Degree," Razzy Bailey's "I Keep Coming Back," Lee Greenwood's "Ain't No Trick" and John Conlee's "Working Man," among others
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