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    • Feb 11, 1945
    "I Only Have Eyes For You" songwriter Al Dubin dies of pneumonia and drug poisoning in New York. Over the next three years, two of his songs make the country charts: Jo Stafford's "Feudin' And Fightin'" and T. Texas Tyler's "Memories Of France"
    Nov 9, 1945
    Country bluesman Frank Hutchison dies. Among the first to record with a harmonica rack, he cut just 32 songs. One, "Stackalee," ranks among the 500 greatest country singles of all-time in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number"
    Apr 5, 1946
    Songwriter Vincent Youmans dies in a Denver, Colorado, sanitarium after a 12-year battle with tuberculosis. He wrote "Tea For Two," "I Want To Be Happy" and "Without A Song," a 1930 Paul Whiteman hit destined to be covered by Willie Nelson
    Sep 18, 1947
    Lyricist Bert Kalmar dies in Los Angeles, California. Kalmar co-wrote "Who's Sorry Now?," recorded in 1935 by the western-swing act Milton Brown & His Brownies
    Jan 2, 1948
    Songwriter Mark Fisher dies in Long Lake, Illinois. He wrote the pop standard "Oh, How I Miss You Tonight," which will become a 1979 country hit as a duet that matches Deborah Allen with the late Jim Reeves
    Jan 15, 1948
    Jack Guthrie dies from tuberculosis in Los Angeles. The yodeling cousin of Woody Guthrie was best known for his 1945 recording of "Oklahoma Hills"
    Feb 12, 1949
    Pop songwriter Seymour Simons dies in Detroit, Michigan. His credits include The Hoosier Hot Shots' "Breezin' Along With The Breeze" and "All Of Me," destined to become a 1978 hit for Willie Nelson
    Dec 6, 1949
    Huddie Ledbetter dies in New York City. Better known as Lead Belly, the blues pioneer made a mark in country music when his composition "Goodnight Irene" became a hit for both Moon Mullican and the duo of Red Foley & Ernest Tubb
    Apr 3, 1950
    Pop songwriter Kurt Weill dies of a heart attack in New York. Two of his songs find new life after his passing: Bobby Darin's recording of "Mack The Knife" and Willie Nelson's version of "September Song"
    Jun 9, 1950
    Pop songwriter Joe Burke dies of a heart attack in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. The author of "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" and "Rambling Rose," he also wrote the 1925 hit "Oh, How I Miss You Tonight," destined to be a 1979 country duet for Deborah Allen and Jim Reeves



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