Country star Porter Wagoner dies at 80
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Porter Wagoner was known for a string of country hits in the '60s, perennial appearances at the Grand Ole Opry in his trademark rhinestone suits, and for launching the career of Dolly Parton.
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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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Country music singer Skeeter Davis, a veteran of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, died on Sunday, according to a family friend.
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee  - Renowned saxophonist Boots Randolph died on Tuesday (July 3) after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage June 25, according to publicist and family friend Betty Hofer.
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Country and Western singer Jerry  Scoggins, whose baritone rendition of the theme song of "The  Beverly Hillbillies" became one of television's favorite tunes,  has died in Los Angeles at age 93, his family said on Thursday.
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Anna Nicole Smith, the small-town Texas girl turned Playboy Playmate who became a tabloid fixture while fighting all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court over the estate of her elderly billionaire husband, died in Florida on Thursday at the age of 39.
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PARIS - Henri Jayer, a master of supremely concentrated, immaculately balanced pinot noir who was viewed by connoisseurs to be the finest Burgundy winemaker of his generation, has died, his daughter said Thursday. He was 84.
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Former priest James Porter, whose widespread molestation of dozens of children foreshadowed the clergy sex abuse scandal that swept the Roman Catholic church, died Friday.
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Porter Wagoner was a country singer who mixed rhinestone suits, a towering pompadour and cornball jokes with direct, simple songs over a career best known for his partnership with Dolly Parton.
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Robert Altman, the caustic and irreverent satirist behind "M-A-S-H," "Nashville" and "The Player" who made a career out of bucking Hollywood, has died at 81. The director died Monday night at a Los Angeles Hospital, Joshua Astrachan, a producer at Altman's Sandcastle 5 Productions in New York City, told The Associated Press.
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Hank Garland, the guitarist whose career included work with Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison and Patsy Cline, has died.
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Skeeter Davis, a veteran of the Grand Ole Opry, died Sunday (Sept. 19) at Nashville's St. Thomas Hospital. She was 73.
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Rhythm and blues singer Bill Pinkney, the last surviving member of The Drifters, was found dead in his hotel just hours before he was due to perform in a July 4 celebration, police said on Thursday.
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Porter Wagoner has lung cancer and remains hospitalized in serious condition, a publicist for the country singer said Sunday.
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Even in 2004, when the Rev. Howard Douglas Porter eulogized a friend killed in a car crash in which Porter was driving, the victim's friends and relatives were suspicious. They feared Porter deliberately planned the crash to get his hands on the multimillion-dollar trust fund of Frank Craig, an 85-year-old farmer.
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John W. Peterson, who authored more than 1,000 gospel hymns in a musical career that began before World War II, has died. He was 84. Peterson died Sept. 20 of cancer at his home in Scottsdale.
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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.