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Aug 9, 1976
Texas Playboys fiddler Jesse Ashlock dies in Austin, Texas. An original member of Bob Wills' western swing band, he played on such classics as "New San Antonio Rose," "Cherokee Maiden," "Ida Red" and "Right Or Wrong"
Nov 6, 1976
Merle Haggard goes to #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with a cover of the Bob Wills western-swing classic "Cherokee Maiden"
Jan 6, 1977
Texas Playboys fiddler Keith Coleman dies of cancer in Chickasha, Oklahoma. He played on the Bob Wills classic "Faded Love" in 1950 and worked with Hank Thompson and Ray Price
Oct 1, 1977
Asleep At The Wheel performs a live show at Knott's Berry Farm in Anaheim with The Texas Playboys. The concert is recorded and released in 1994 on Asleep At The Wheel's box set "Still Swingin'"
Dec 7, 1977
Bill Boyd dies in Dallas, Texas. His Midnight Ramblers were one of the strongest acts in western swing during the 1930s and '40s behind such titles as "Under The Double Eagle" and "Lone Star Rag"
Dec 24, 1978
Derwood Brown, a guitarist with the western swing band Milton Brown's Musical Brownies, dies in Fort Worth, Texas. In addition to his work with The Brownies, he appeared on the seminal Fort Worth Doughboys single "Sunbonnet Sue"
Jun 5, 1979
Vocalist Rusty McDonald dies in Killeen, Texas. He sang lead on "Faded Love," a 1950 western-swing classic by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Jan 10, 1980
Willie Nelson records "Faded Love" with his buddy--and former boss--Ray Price
Jun 9, 1981
Former Texas Playboys vocalist Eugene "Tagg" Lambert dies of a self-inflicted gunshot in Turkey, Texas. He appeared on the 1968 recording "Southwestern Waltz," which makes it into the 1983 movie "The Right Stuff"
Oct 22, 1982
Mel Tillis sings the western-swing classic "Stay A Little Longer" during the CBS telecast of "The Dukes Of Hazzard"
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