SPECIAL MEMO TO “COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS” SUBSCRIBERS:
CHARLIE LOUVIN PASSED AWAY THIS MORNING
Country Music Hall of Famer Charlie Louvin passed away this morning at his home in Wartrace, Tennessee, after battling pancreatic cancer for the last several months.
Charlie and his brother Ira, placed 12 songs on the country music charts as The Louvin Brothers, from 1955 thru 1962, including one number one, “I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby.”
Ira was killed in a car crash in 1965 and Charlie continued as a solo act and scored 30 chart singles from 1964 thru 1989, including six duets with Melba Montgomery.
Charlie was born Charlie Loudermilk in 1927 in Rainsville, Alabama.
Charlie Louvin was one of the truly good folks in the country music business and will be missed.
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