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    • Aug 27, 1963
    Jim Denny dies of cancer in Nashville. While serving as house manager for the Grand Ole Opry, he became an influential talent booker, and joined Webb Pierce in forming Cedarwood Publishing, one of Nashville's first music publishing ventures
    Oct 15, 1963
    Frank B. Walker, the first president of MGM Records, dies of a heart attack at his Queens, New York, home. The label was the recording home for Hank Williams, and will go on to represent Marie Osmond, Hank Williams Jr. and Mel Tillis
    Jan 20, 1965
    Defamed disc jockey Alan Freed, nabbed in a payola scandal, dies in Palm Springs, California. Later named to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, he received co-writer credit for The McGuire Sisters' hit "Sincerely," later covered by The Forester Sisters
    Feb 3, 1966
    Republic Pictures founder Herb Yates dies at his home in Sherman Oaks, California. His company, established in 1935, launched the careers of western actors Gene Autry, John Wayne and Roy Rogers
    Dec 15, 1966
    Walt Disney dies of lung cancer. The entertainment mogul, responsible for Disneyland and Mickey Mouse, left a conglomerate that will expand to include a country label, Lyric Street, which develops hits for Aaron Tippin, SHeDAISY and Rascal Flatts
    Mar 5, 1968
    Syd Nathan dies of heart disease in Miami Beach, Florida. He founded King Records, which contributed to the careers of Moon Mullican, Hawkshaw Hawkins and The Delmore Brothers. Nathan also wrote "I'll Sail My Ship Alone" and "Goodnight Irene"
    Apr 22, 1968
    RCA executive Steve Sholes dies when he suffers a heart attack while driving to the Nashville Airport. A 1967 inductee in the Country Music Hall of Fame, Sholes produced country hits by Elvis Presley, Eddy Arnold, Hank Snow and Jim Reeves
    May 8, 1968
    George D. Hay dies in his apartment in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Nicknamed the Solemn Ole Judge, he founded and named the influential WSM radio show the Grand Ole Opry, entering the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1966
    Oct 8, 1968
    Former Grand Ole Opry general manager Harry Stone dies at Millers Hospital-Clinic in Nashville following a stroke
    May 11, 1969
    Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel dies at Baylor Hospital in Dallas. The former Texas governor and senator founded The Light Crust Doughboys to advertise the Burrus Mill in the 1930s, when he was a sales manager for the firm. It proved a seminal act in the growth of western swing



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