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    • Mar 13, 1962
    Piano player Mancel Tierney dies in Big Spring, Texas, following a stroke. A dozen years earlier, he was a member of Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys when the band recorded the western-swing landmark "Faded Love"
    Jun 22, 1962
    Guitarist Cameron Hill dies in Houston. A former member of Bob Wills' Texas Playboys, he contributed to such classics as "Roly-Poly," "Hang Your Head In Shame" and "Stay A Little Longer," plus records by Moon Mullican, Tommy Duncan and Ramblin' Jimmie Dolan
    Aug 4, 1962
    Bass player Jack Taylor dies. He emerged in 1932 with The Prairie Ramblers, a group that performed on WLS Radio and backed up Patsy Montana on the 1935 hit "I Wanna Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart." The group was disbanded in 1960
    Oct 23, 1962
    Western-swing guitarist Leon Chappelear dies of a self-inflicted gunshot in Gladewater, Texas. He played on Jimmie Davis' 1940 classic "You Are My Sunshine"
    Aug 23, 1963
    Banjo player Milton Estes dies in Oklahoma City. A former member of Pee Wee King's Golden West Cowboys, he also wrote Jimmy Martin's "20/20 Vision"
    Nov 5, 1964
    Jazz pianist Edwin "Buddy" Cole dies in Hollywood of a heart attack. Noted for his work with Nat "King" Cole, Judy Garland and Louis Armstrong, he also played on the Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely country hit "Slipping Around"
    Jan 25, 1965
    Guitarist Al Nevins dies in New York City. He was a member of the instrumental pop trio The Three Suns, who earned a country hit in 1950 by teaming with Rosalie Allen and Elton Britt on "Beyond The Sunset"
    Jun 24, 1965
    Bluegrass mandolin player Darrell "Pee Wee" Lambert dies. His career included a stint as a member of The Stanley Brothers' Clinch Mountain Boys, where he contributed to their Grammy Hall of Fame recording "I'm A Man Of Constant Sorrow"
    Nov 21, 1965
    Fiddler Cecil Brower dies during a party at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City of a perforated ulcer. One of the pioneers of western swing, he established the fiddle's role in the genre during his tenure with Milton Brown's Musical Brownies
    Jul 17, 1967
    Saxophone player John Coltrane dies of liver cancer at Huntington Hospital in Huntington, New York. The jazz icon is mentioned alongside Frank Sinatra and The Righteous Brothers in the bridge of Brad Paisley's 2011 single "Old Alabama"



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