Opry Member Skeeter Davis Dies at 72
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Skeeter Davis, who hit the top of the pop charts with "The End of the World" in 1963 and sang on the Grand Ole Opry radio show for more than 40 years, died Sunday of cancer. She was 72.
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ORANGE PARK, FLA. - Hank Garland, a guitarist who played country, rock and jazz with a range of musicians that included Elvis Presley and Charlie Parker, died Monday.
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Barbara McNair, the pioneering black singer-actress who hosted her own TV variety show and starred with Sidney Poitier in the early 1970s, has died. She was 72. McNair died Sunday in Los Angeles after a battle with throat cancer, her sister, Jacqueline Gaither, said.
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Porter Wagoner, the rhinestone-clad Grand Ole Opry star who helped launch the career of Dolly Parton by hiring her as his duet partner, died Sunday. He was 80.  Wagoner, who had survived an abdominal aneurysm in 2006, was hospitalized a...
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The late actor Ossie Davis was eulogized Monday as an inspiration for both the artistic and civil rights communities.
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One of the most famous American band leaders of the swing era, clarinettist Artie Shaw, dies aged 94.
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Bandleader and clarinetist Artie  Shaw, famed for his recording of "Begin the Beguine" and one of  the giants of the swing era of jazz, died on Thursday at age  94, his manager Will Curtis said.
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Multi-faceted guitar great, Hank Garland, died Tuesday of a staph infection. He was 74. Garland, who could play jazz, blues, country, and rock, worked with such performers as Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers
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U.S. songwriter and actress Betty Comden, who collaborated with Adolph Green to write some of the greatest stage and screen musicals such as "Singin' in the Rain," died of heart failure on Thursday in New York at age 89, media reports said.
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Bandleader and clarinetist Artie Shaw, famed for his recording of "Begin the Beguine" and one of the giants of the swing era of jazz, died on Thursday at age 94, his manager Will Curtis said.
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee  - U.S. country singer Porter Wagoner, lanky Grand Ole Opry star whose flashy Nudie rhinestone suits dazzled fans when he sang with rising new performer Dolly Parton in the 60s, died on Sunday from lung cancer, said his publicity agent, Darlene Bieber. He was 80.
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For the first time in its  82-year history, the Grand Ole Opry is embroiled in an  age-discrimination lawsuit, officials at the venerable country  music palace said on Friday.
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Bill Pinkney, the last survivor of the original members of the musical group The Drifters, died Wednesday. He was 81.
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Country music singer and songwriter Roy Drusky, a member of the Grand Ole Opry for 46 years, has died after a lengthy battle with emphysema, the Highland Manor Nursing Home said on Friday.
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Country music mainstay Merle  Kilgore, who managed Hank Williams Jr. and co-wrote the hit  tune "Ring of Fire" with one-time client June Carter Cash, died  in Nashville on Sunday of congestive heart failure related to  his treatment for cancer, his publicist said. He was 70.
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The founder of the legendary Bowery punk-rock club died on Tuesday from lung cancer. He was 75.
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Bob Evans, whose small truck stop  restaurant in Ohio grew into a national chain and a line of  pork sausage products that bear his name, died on Thursday,  according to the company he founded.