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    • Apr 17, 2000
    Pioneering country executive Murray Nash dies in Ocala, Florida, of lung cancer. He played a role in the careers of Flatt & Scruggs, Bill Carlisle and Pee Wee King while working for Mercury Records and Acuff-Rose Music
    Oct 26, 2000
    Harmonica player Don Brooks dies with leukemia in New York City. Noted for his work with Billy Joel, Diana Ross and The Bee Gees, he was a member of Waylon Jennings' band during the 1970s, appearing on "You Ask Me To" and "This Time"
    Nov 14, 2000
    Sax player David Wilson dies of cancer. He was a former member of The Cascades, a pop group best known for the 1963 single "Rhythm Of The Rain." Jacky Ward remade that song as a country hit in 1978
    Apr 8, 2001
    Singer/songwriter Van Stephenson dies at home in Nashville from skin cancer. Stephenson was one-third of the trio BlackHawk and wrote Lee Greenwood's "You've Got A Good Love Comin'" and Restless Heart's "Bluest Eyes In Texas"
    Jun 20, 2001
    The Vanderbilt University Medical Center dedicates the Preston Research Building, a cancer facility named for Country Music Hall of Famer Frances Preston, of the performing rights agency BMI
    Jun 30, 2001
    Chet Atkins dies at home after a long bout with cancer. An influential guitarist and producer who helped create "The Nashville Sound," he entered the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1973 and earned a Lifetime Achievement award from the Grammys
    Jul 10, 2001
    Marizona Robbins, the widow of Marty Robbins, dies of cancer in Brentwood, a Nashville suburb. She inspired his 1970 hit "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife"
    Jul 31, 2001
    Leona Williams has breast cancer surgery in Branson, Missouri. The former wife of Merle Haggard wrote "Someday When Things Are Good," "You Take Me For Granted" and a duet she performed with Haggard, "The Bull And The Beaver"
    Aug 26, 2001
    Songwriter and autoharp expert Cecil Null dies from cancer at the Bristol Regional Medical Center in Bristol, Virginia. He wrote The Davis Sisters' 1953 hit "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know"
    Dec 18, 2001
    Songwriter Gilbert Becaud dies of lung cancer in Paris, France. He wrote "Let It Be Me," which became a pop hit for The Everly Brothers and a country hit for Glen Campbell & Bobbie Gentry and for Willie Nelson



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