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    • Jan 20, 1970
    Marty Robbins enters Nashville's Saint Thomas Hospital for tests and ends up having heart surgery one week later
    Jan 21, 1970
    Bass player Howard Watts dies of a heart attack in Nashville. As Cedric Rainwater, he played with Ray Price, Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs, and was a member of The Drifting Cowboys band during the final three years of Hank Williams' life
    Jan 27, 1970
    Marty Robbins undergoes triple-bypass surgery at Nashville's Saint Thomas Hospital. The operation takes six hours, and Robbins, staying in room #348, receives more than 10,000 letters from fans
    Jan 31, 1970
    Blues musician Slim Harpo dies of a heart attack in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Months later, Hank Williams Jr. remakes Harpo's "Rainin' In My Heart" as a country hit
    Nov 11, 1970
    Roy Clark enters Nashville's Baptist Hospital with a cardiac issue. Doctors decide his heart is overworked but will not require surgery
    Jan 1, 1971
    Former Air Force general and Pan Am executive Henry Kristofferson dies of heart failure in Fallbrook, California. His passing comes as his son, Kris Kristofferson, is enjoying hits as the writer of "Me And Bobby McGee," "Sunday Morning Coming Down" and "Help Me Make It Through The Night"
    Mar 21, 1971
    Roy Blackwood, a co-founder of The Blackwood Brothers, dies of a heart attack at his Memphis church. The gospel quartet's "His Hand In Mine" ranks among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number"
    Apr 15, 1971
    Grandpa Jones undergoes coronary bypass surgery six months after a heart attack
    Sep 8, 1971
    Bass player Junior Huskey dies of a heart attack in Nashville. His credits include work with The Everly Brothers, George Jones, Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn
    Jun 13, 1972
    R&B singer Clyde McPhatter dies of a heart attack in the Bronx. A former member of The Dominoes and The Drifters, he grabbed a solo pop hit in 1958 with "A Lover's Question," remade as a country hit in 1978 by Jacky Ward



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