Presley songwriter Weisman dies
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Songwriter Ben Weisman, who helped compose almost 60 songs for Elvis Presley, dies at the age of 85.
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LOS ANGELES Aug. 19, 2004  Film composer Elmer Bernstein, who created a brawny, big-sky theme for &quot;The Magnificent Seven,&quot; nerve-jangling jazz for &quot;The Man With The Golden Arm&quot; and heart-rending grace notes for &quot;To Kill a Mockingbird,&quot; has died.
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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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A hit 1960s songwriter was wrongly reported dead after the death of a man who claimed authorship.
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Boots Randolph, whose spirited saxophone playing on songs like "Yakety Sax" made him one of Nashville's top musicians, died Tuesday. He was 80.
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Fred Ebb, who wrote the lyrics for such hit Broadway musicals as "Chicago" and "Cabaret" as well as the big-city anthem "New York, New York," has died of a heart attack.
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Terry Melcher, a record producer who created hits with the Beach Boys and the Byrds, died on Friday in Beverly Hills after a long battle with cancer, his publicist, Linda Dozoretz, said Saturday.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Mack Vickery, who wrote hits including George Straitâs âThe Firemanâ and Jerry Lee Lewisâ âRockinâ My Life Away,â died Tuesday of a heart attack, fellow songwriter Merle Kilgore said.
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Rhythm and blues singer Bill Pinkney, the last surviving member of the original lineup of The Drifters, was found dead in his hotel room hours before he was due to perform in a July 4 celebration.
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Tammy Faye Messner, the former televangelist and Christian singer who battled drug addiction and later inoperable cancer, died Friday morning, the family told CNN's Larry King on Saturday night.
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Soul star Ike Turner, former husband and musical partner of Tina Turner, dies at the age of 76.
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MILWAUKEE  &#151; Will H. Schaefer, a composer whose music accompanied hit television shows such as "I Dream of Jeannie" and "The Flintstones," has died in California, a family friend said Wednesday. He was 78.
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Costume designer Bill Belew, who created Elvis Presley's jumpsuits and the tight black leather outfit he wore on his 1968 television special, has died. He was 76.
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Jerry Orbach, the Tony Award-winning star of Promises, Promises and other musicals, has died at the age of 69, according to a radio report citing his manager, Robert Malcolm.
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Fred Ebb, who wrote the lyrics to  Broadway musical hits including "Cabaret" and "Chicago" and the  words to the Big Apple anthem, "New York, New York," died on  Saturday after a heart attack, his agent said.
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Howard Keel, star of post-war US musicals, and later in the hit TV series Dallas, dies of cancer.
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Singer and actress Barbara McNair, who starred opposite Elvis Presley and Sidney Poitier and became one of the first black women to host her own television variety show, has died at 72, her husband said on Monday.