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    • Dec 3, 1981
    Guitarist Bob Morris dies of cancer in Harrison, Arkansas. A former member of Buck Owens' Buckaroos, he wrote Owens' hits "Buckaroo" and "Made In Japan," as well as Sylvia's "The Matador"
    May 8, 1982
    Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart dies of cancer. Known for breaking such acts as Donna Summer, Kiss and Parliament, the label also handled Mac Davis just prior to Bogart's passing
    May 29, 1982
    Harmonica player Jimmie Riddle, of Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys, passes out between Grand Ole Opry performances in the parking lot. He is admitted to Nashville's Baptist Hospital, where, within weeks, he is diagnosed with cancer
    Jun 12, 1982
    Jimmie Riddle, of the Smoky Mountain Boys, undergoes surgery at Nashville's Baptist Hospital. Doctors discover he has bladder cancer
    Jan 21, 1983
    Lamar Williams, bass player with The Allman Brothers Band, dies of cancer at the Veterans Hospital in Los Angeles. Five years earlier, the group was namechecked in a Conway Twitty hit, "Boogie Grass Band"
    Aug 31, 1984
    "City Of New Orleans" songwriter Steve Goodman has bone marrow transplanted from brother David Goodman at University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle
    Oct 28, 1984
    June Nelson dies of lung cancer at home in Somis, California, with husband Ken Nelson at her side. A former Capitol executive, he's destined to join the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001 after producing Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Hank Thompson and Sonny James
    Nov 13, 1984
    Singer/songwriter Don Addrisi dies of pancreatic cancer in California. One-half of the pop duo The Addrisi Brothers, he joined younger sibling Dick Addrisi to write The Association's 1967 pop hit "Never My Love," re-cast as a country single by Vern Gosdin in 1978
    Nov 30, 1984
    Just months after Richard Adler was inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, his son, Christopher Adler, dies at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The senior Adler wrote the Ernest Tubb-Red Foley hit "The Strange Little Girl"
    Jan 18, 1985
    Singer/songwriter Werly Fairburn dies of lung cancer in Los Angeles. A former "Louisiana Hayride" star, he authored Carl Smith's "I Feel Like Cryin'" and Jim Reeves' "I Guess I'm Crazy"



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