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Mar 13, 1962
Piano player Mancel Tierney dies in Big Spring, Texas, following a stroke. A dozen years earlier, he was a member of Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys when the band recorded the western-swing landmark "Faded Love"
Jun 22, 1962
Guitarist Cameron Hill dies in Houston. A former member of Bob Wills' Texas Playboys, he contributed to such classics as "Roly-Poly," "Hang Your Head In Shame" and "Stay A Little Longer," plus records by Moon Mullican, Tommy Duncan and Ramblin' Jimmie Dolan
Oct 23, 1962
Western-swing guitarist Leon Chappelear dies of a self-inflicted gunshot in Gladewater, Texas. He played on Jimmie Davis' 1940 classic "You Are My Sunshine"
Jul 4, 1963
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys are the first country act to perform at Fort Worth's Panther Hall. The venue later becomes the recording site for live albums by Jerry Lee Lewis and Charley Pride
Sep 27, 1963
Drummer Monte Mountjoy marries Jo Corey in Decatur, Illinios. He spent a chunk of the 1940s in Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, playing on such western-swing titles as "Roly-Poly," "New Spanish Two-Step" and "Stay A Little Longer"
Nov 21, 1965
Fiddler Cecil Brower dies during a party at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City of a perforated ulcer. One of the pioneers of western swing, he established the fiddle's role in the genre during his tenure with Milton Brown's Musical Brownies
Jul 10, 1967
Fiddler Hoyle Nix, who wrote the western-swing classic "Big Ball's In Cowtown," marries Joy Franklin in Durant, Oklahoma
Jul 24, 1967
Tommy Duncan dies in San Diego from a heart attack. The former vocalist for Bob Wills' Texas Playboys delivered such milestone recordings as "Right Or Wrong," "New San Antonio Rose" and "Roly Poly"
Oct 3, 1967
Chuck Wagon Gang guitarist Howard Gordon, the husband of the group's Anna Carter, dies of a heart attack after taping "The Wilburn Brothers Show" in Nashville. A former member of the Light Crust Doughboys, he'd played with the Chuck Wagon Gang since 1951
Mar 12, 1968
Piano player Millard Kelso dies in Santa Clara, California. An important member of Bob Wills' Texas Playboys, he appeared on such recordings as "Roly-Poly," "Stay A Little Longer" and "Bubbles In My Beer"
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