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    • May 11, 1996
    A ValuJet flight crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing more than 100 people, including country singer/songwriter Walter Hyatt, a musical compadre of David Ball and Lyle Lovett
    Dec 23, 1996
    Songwriter, sax player and club owner Ronnie Scott dies in London from an apparently accidental overdose of pain pills for tooth implants. He wrote Bonnie Tyler's "It's A Heartache" and Shelly West's "Flight 309 To Tennessee"
    Oct 12, 1997
    Singer/songwriter John Denver dies in a plane crash near Monterey, California, when the engine quits on the test plane he's piloting. Denver leaves a string of folk-tinged pop-country hits, including "Thank God I'm A Country Boy," "Take Me Home, Country Roads," "Annie's Song" and "Back Home Again"
    Dec 27, 1997
    Songwriter Kent Robbins dies in a one-car crash in Alabama when he falls asleep at the wheel. Among his credits: The Judds' "Love Is Alive," Gary Allan's "Her Man," Steve Wariner's "Heart Trouble" and Trace Adkins' "Every Light In The House"
    Jan 5, 1998
    Former pop singer Sonny Bono dies in a skiing accident in South Lake Tahoe, California. With former partner Cher, he recorded the original version of "All I Ever Need Is You," which also became a country hit for Kenny Rogers & Dottie West
    Oct 5, 1998
    Tom Diskin, who carried out many of Colonel Tom Parker's duties for Elvis Presley, dies at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville five days after he was injured in a car accident
    Aug 30, 1999
    Sax player Pat "Taco" Ryan is killed when he's hit by a car after dark on Admiral Boulevard in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was a member of Asleep At The Wheel when the group recorded its Grammy-nominated 1977 album "The Wheel"
    Dec 17, 1999
    Silver-screen cowboy Rex Allen dies in Tucson, Arizona, when a caregiver accidentally hits him in his driveway with a car. Allen notched three Top 10 singles from 1951-1962 and appeared in numerous western movies
    Oct 30, 2000
    TV personality Steve Allen dies just hours after a car accident in Encino, California. Fifty years prior, he had success as a songwriter on the Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely country hit "Let's Go To Church (Next Sunday Morning)"
    Feb 18, 2001
    NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt dies from a crash on the final lap of the Daytona 500. He appeared in the video to Brooks & Dunn's "Honky Tonk Truth" and is referenced as "#3" in the 2009 Tim McGraw hit "Southern Voice"



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