![]() ![]() Everlys career revived via 1969 LP Roots and 1970 network TV series. Co-wrote 1965’s big British hit “The Price of Love,” later revived by Bryan Ferry, The Who and more. Hits of the 1960s included “Cathy’s Clown,” “So Sad,” “Walk Right Back,” “Ebony Eyes,” “Stick With Me Baby,” “Crying in the Rain” and “That’s Old Fashioned.” Co-wrote 1964’s “Gone Gone Gone,” later revived by Alison Krauss & Robert Plant. Everlys’ 1958 LP Songs Our Daddy Taught Us recreated in 2013 by Billy Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones. Brothers rose to fame in Nashville in 1957-60 with such rockabilly hits as “Bye Bye Love,” “Wake Up Little Susie,” “Bird Dog,” “Problems,” “Claudette” and “Poor Jenny” as well as the timeless ballads “All I Have to Do Is Dream,” “Devoted to You” and “Let It Be Me.” Wrote 1960’s “When Will I Be Loved,” later revived by Linda Ronstadt. Began career on radio as a child with parents Ike & Margaret Everly and brother Don. High-harmony voice in The Everly Brothers. Member of the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Father of Starstruck executive Cliff Williamson. Chart’s roster in the 1960s and 1970s included hit makers Lynn Anderson, Billy “Crash” Craddock and Lawanda Lindsey veterans Joe & Rose Lee Maphis, Carl & Pearl Butler, Red Sovine, Bill Carlisle, Grant Turner, Maxine Brown, Lorene Mann and Gordon Terry instrumentalists Lloyd Green, Hargus “Pig” Robbins and Del Wood Hee Haw’s Junior Samples and Roni Stoneman: and up-and-comers such as Jerry Lane, Karen Wheeler, Anthony Armstrong Jones, Dave Peel and Connie Eaton. Notable as the founder of the successful 1962-1975 independent label Chart Records. Veteran executive in song publishing (Yonah Music) and labels (RCA Records). SLIM WILLIAMSON, 86, died December 25, 2013. Formerly a musician with dance bands in his native Pennsylvania. Record-label executive in sales and marketing with MCA, Atlantic, Capitol, Intersound/Platinum and Infinity/Aspirion. GEORGE COLLIER, 69, died December 21, 2013. Later, a mentor to young steel sensation Chris Scruggs. He then became a longtime security guard at The Tennessean. After a 1959-60 stint in Kitty’s band, he returned to Carl Smith as the star’s bandleader in 1961-69. Beginning in 1951, he was a key component in the sound of Carl Smith (1927-2010), playing on such hits as “Are You Teasing Me,” “Hey Joe,” “Loose Talk” and “There She Goes.” He also played on such hits as Jimmy Dickens’ “Out Behind the Barn” and Kitty Wells’ “Heartbreak U.S.A.,” as well as on records by Johnnie & Jack, Lefty Frizzell and The Everly Brothers. Began career as a teenager on Nashville radio with Big Jeff Bess. Singer and multi instrumentalist who performed on the Grand Ole Opry and substituted as a member of Mother Maybelle & The Carter Sisters during the 1960s. William played bass in the group, which also included his brothers Kelly, Lloyd, Haskel and Gerald McCormick. Member of The McCormick Brothers, the bluegrass band that recorded extensively for Hickory Records in the 1950s and 1960s. More recently, Young played on recordings by My Morning Jacket, Todd Snider and Candi Staton. Say hail and farewell to this 2014 roll call.įor over four decades, Chip Young lent his distinctive thumb-style picking to timeless country recordings, including Dolly Parton’s “Jolene,” Elvis Presley’s “Guitar Man,” and Charley Pride’s “Kiss an Angel Good Morning.” As a producer, he helmed recordings by acts such as Delbert McClinton, Jerry Reed, Gary Stewart (“Your Place or Mine”), and Billy Swan (“I Can Help”). Jazz mainstay Billy Adair, rock sideman Bobby Keys and comics Tim Wilson, Elmer Fudpucker and Bun Wilson left us as well. Pioneering Nashville female session musicians Velma Williams Smith and Millie Kirkham died. The Bluegrass Hall of Honor lost George Shuffler. The Gospel Music Hall of Fame lost Don Light and Mary Tom Speers. Other songwriting greats we lost include Bob Montgomery and Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith. Three Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame members passed, Paul Craft, Larry Henley and Phil Everly, the last of whom is also a Country, Rock and Rockabilly hall of famer. The Grand Ole Opry said farewell to Jimmy C. The tight-knit steel-guitar community lost seven of its members. The senior citizen on this list is groundbreaking black singing cowboy Herb Jeffries, who made it to the age of 100. ![]() ![]() As the year draws to a close, we pause to remember the folks we lost in 2014. ![]()
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