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    • May 25, 1990
    Pop songwriter/record producer Gary Usher dies of lung cancer at his home in Los Angeles. Noted for his work with The Beach Boys and The Hondells, he also produced The Byrds' pioneering country-rock album "Sweetheart Of The Rodeo"
    Jul 20, 1990
    Accordion player Morty Nevins dies of cancer at his home in Beverly Hills. As a member of the pop instrumental trio The Three Suns, he appeared on the 1950 country hit "Beyond The Sunset," which also featured Rosalie Allen and Elton Britt
    Jul 24, 1990
    Guitarist and background singer Joe Stanley is diagnosed with cancer. A member of Dan Seals' band, he took part in such hits as "You Still Move Me," "Bop," "I Will Be There" and "Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)"
    Oct 11, 1990
    Webb Pierce enters Southern Hills Medical Center in Nashville with internal hemorrhaging from pancreatic cancer
    Oct 15, 1990
    Rassy Young, the mother of "Love Is A Rose" songwriter Neil Young, dies of cancer at her home in New Smyrna Beach, Florida
    Oct 28, 1990
    Mel Foree, Nashville's first record promoter, dies from cancer. Foree wrote Gene Watson's "No One Will Ever Know"
    Jan 22, 1991
    Nashville's Centennial Medical Center names its cancer facility the Sarah Cannon Center, in honor of Minnie Pearl
    Feb 14, 1991
    Guitarist Roy Lanham dies of cancer in Camarillo, California. A member of The Sons Of The Pioneers, he played on Loretta Lynn's "I'm A Honky Tonk Girl" and Ned Miller's "From A Jack To A King"
    Feb 24, 1991
    Webb Pierce dies of pancreatic cancer at his Nashville home. One of country's most flamboyant performers, he leaves a rhinestone legacy of more than 50 hits, including "Slowly," "There Stands The Glass," "In The Jailhouse Now" and "I Ain't Never." He joins the Country Music Hall of Fame 10 years later
    Mar 11, 1991
    Carrie Rivers Cash, the mother of Johnny Cash and Tommy Cash, dies of cancer at her home in Hendersonville, Tennessee



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