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    • Dec 5, 1986
    Songwriter Carmol Taylor dies of lung cancer in Brilliant, Alabama. Taylor wrote such hits as George Jones' "The Grand Tour," Tammy Wynette's "My Man" and Joe Stampley's "Red Wine And Blue Memories"
    Apr 2, 1987
    President Ronald Reagan presents Minnie Pearl with the American Cancer Society's Courage Award at the White House in Washington, D.C.
    May 3, 1987
    Fiddler Merle Franklin "Red" Taylor dies of cancer at the North Mississippi Medical Center in Saltillo. He made his mark as a member of Little Jimmy Dickens' band, playing on "Hillbilly Fever" and "A-Sleeping At The Foot Of The Bed." Taylor also appeared on Bill Monroe's "Uncle Pen"
    Jun 25, 1987
    Boudleaux Bryant dies of cancer at Knoxville's Baptist Hospital. Bryant was a pioneering Nashville songwriter, whose credits included "Bye Bye Love," "Come Live With Me" and "Hole In My Pocket." He later joins the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Aug 1, 1987
    Fiddler Howard "Howdy" Forrester dies of cancer in Nashville. He was a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in the 1940s and Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys in the '50s, and played on hits by Hank Thompson and Kitty Wells
    Sep 23, 1987
    O.B. McClinton dies from abdominal cancer in Nashville. Nicknamed the "Chocolate Cowboy," the African-American performer's "Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You" ranks among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number"
    Aug 1, 1988
    Skeeter Davis has a biopsy, and is diagnosed with cancer in her right breast
    Aug 24, 1988
    Nat Stuckey dies of lung cancer in Nashville. The singer had only moderate success as an artist in the 1960s and '70s, but wrote Jim Ed Brown's "Pop A Top" and Buck Owens' "Waitin' In Your Welfare Line"
    Nov 22, 1988
    Janet Ertel, of The Chordettes, dies of cancer at her home in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The 1950s harmony group netted pop hits with "Mr. Sandman" and "Born To Be With You," remade for country music by Emmylou Harris and Sonny James, respectively
    Jan 7, 1989
    Japanese emperor Hirohito dies of cancer at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Some 45 years earlier, in the throes of World War II, he was referenced in the lyrics of Red Foley's country hit "Smoke On The Water"



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