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    • Apr 11, 1976
    Roy Acuff enters a Nashville hospital with stomach pains. The following day, doctors determine he's had a heart attack
    May 3, 1976
    Actor David Bruce dies of a heart attack in Hollywood. Four years later, his daughter, Amanda McBroom, enjoys a pop hit as the writer of Bette Midler's "The Rose." In 1982, the song appears in the country charts through a recording by Conway Twitty
    Aug 31, 1976
    Vocalist and banjo player Buell Kazee dies of a heart attack in Winchester, Kentucky. He recorded around 50 numbers for Brunswick during the late-1920s. Three of them appeared in the landmark album "Anthology Of American Folk Music"
    Dec 9, 1976
    Elvis Presley's father, Vernon, is hospitalized, fearful that he's had a heart attack
    Feb 4, 1977
    Stoney Cooper, of the Grand Ole Opry duo Wilma Lee Cooper & Stoney, is hospitalized in Nashville with a heart ailment, a pinched nerve, phlebitis and emphysema. He dies the following month
    Aug 4, 1977
    Ferlin Husky has triple-bypass heart surgery at Miller Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota
    Jan 18, 1978
    Roy Orbison undergoes open-heart surgery for three blocked arteries at Nashville's Saint Thomas Hospital
    Jun 12, 1978
    Johnny Bond dies of a heart attack at the St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. A movie sidekick to Gene Autry and Tex Ritter, as well as an artist and songwriter in his own right, he lands a spot in the Country Music Hall of Fame two decades later
    Jun 30, 1978
    Bill Harrah dies during heart surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Founder of the Harrah's casino chain, he was married for four months to Bobbie Gentry from 1969-1970
    Oct 22, 1978
    Dorothy Shay dies of a heart attack at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California. Known as the Park Avenue Hillbilly, she scored a 1947 country hit with her version of "Feudin' And Fightin'"



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