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\n<\/span><\/p>\nCountry music pioneer and actor Ferlin Husky, best known for hits including Gone, has died aged 85.<\/p>\n
The singer-songwriter, who was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame last year, died at his daughter’s home in Westmoreland, Tennessee.<\/p>\n
The ballad Gone was number one in the US country charts for 10 weeks and reached number four in the pop charts.<\/p>\n
He starred in the films Country Music Holiday with Zsa Zsa Gabor and The Las Vegas Hillbillys with Jayne Mansfield.<\/p>\n
Husky, who died on Thursday, had a history of heart problems and was recently treated for congestive heart failure.<\/p>\n
His other hits included his version of the gospel song Wings of a Dove, which topped the country chart and was also a mainstream success, as well as A Fallen Star and The Waltz You Saved For Me.<\/p>\n
At the peak of his career in the 1950s and 1960s, he was considered one of the top country music performers.<\/p>\n
Fellow country star Merle Haggard once said there were “a lot of years when nobody in the business could follow Ferlin Husky”.<\/p>\n
“He was the big live act of the day – a great entertainer,” Haggard said.<\/p>\n
Nashville template<\/span><\/p>\nHusky was the headline act for a tour featuring a young Elvis Presley, who Husky said “was so eager to learn how to entertain an audience, he’d watch everything I did”.<\/p>\n
One of the first country artists to be honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Husky sold more than 20 million records, according to his website.<\/p>\n
At his Hall of Fame induction last year, the singer, who was connected to an oxygen tank he referred to as his “own airline”, said: “I want to thank everybody who had anything to do with bringing me into this group, the people I’ve admired since I was a little child.”<\/p>\n
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum director Kyle Young said at the time that, in the mid-1950s, Husky had created “the template for the famed Nashville sound, a sound that gave rock ‘n’ roll a run for its money and forever put Music City on the map”.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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