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On This Day in 2009, We Lost One of the First Country Artists to Ever Crossover Into Pop Music—and Wrote Songs for Little Jimmy Dickens and Johnny Horton

On This Day in 2009, We Lost One of the First Country Artists to Ever Crossover Into Pop Music—and Wrote Songs for Little Jimmy Dickens and Johnny Horton

Posted on March 2, 2026 at 8:20 am by Milltown Radio

On This Day in 2009, We Lost One of the First Country Artists to Ever Crossover Into Pop Music—and Wrote Songs for Little Jimmy Dickens and Johnny HortonCountry singer Ernest Ashworth, who scored a No. 1 hit in 1963 with “Talk Back Trembling Lips” died on this day 17 years ago at age 80.

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Author: Erinn Callahan

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