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Mar 31, 1968
Skeets McDonald dies of a heart attack at his home in Inglewood, California. Recording in Los Angeles, he earned two hit records, 1952's "Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes" and 1963's "Call Me Mr. Brown"
Apr 17, 1968
Songwriter Dorsey Dixon dies of heart failure in Plant City, Florida. He wrote Roy Acuff's classic "Wreck On The Highway"
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
Jul 3, 1968
Cal Maddox dies from a heart attack. He was a member of The Maddox Brothers & Rose, whose energetic live shows and rhinestone-studded outfits brought them recognition as the Most Colorful Hillbilly Band In America during the 1940s and '50s
Feb 16, 1969
Former life insurance executive Edwin Craig is hospitalized with a heart ailment at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville. Craig had a hand in bringing country music to Nashville, establishing WSM Radio and approving the start of the Grand Ole Opry
Jul 31, 1969
Marty Robbins suffers a heart attack following a performance in Warren, Ohio. Initially, he thinks it's merely a severe case of indigestion
Aug 1, 1969
Marty Robbins suffers chest pains on the road to Greenville, Ohio. Doctors discover three of the four arteries to his heart are blocked
Sep 15, 1969
Abram Miller, the father of former Marty Robbins producer Mitch Miller, dies of a heart attack at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York
Oct 4, 1969
"Hee Haw" star Junior Samples has a heart attack in Greenville, South Carolina
Oct 16, 1969
Record producer and Chess label executive Leonard Chess dies when he has a heart attack and crashes his car in Chicago. He produced Chuck Berry's "Maybellene," ranked among country's greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation book
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