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Buddy Holly, whose posthumously released songs from 1959 marked the end of an era in rock and roll.
George Jones
Musician Sheb Wooley portrait with a Martin & Co. acoustic guitar in circa 1959. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
UNITED KINGDOM – JANUARY 01: Photo of Pete SEEGER; Pete Seeger performing on stage at a Paul Robeson benefit concert (Photo by Brian Shuel/Redferns)
AMERICAN BANDSTAND – "James Darren, Sam Cooke, Stonewall Jackson, The Mystics" – Airdate June 18, 1959. (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images) STONEWALL JACKSON
Singer Patsy Cline poses for a portrait circa 1961. Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Soul Singer Sam Cooke at the RCA Recording Studio in Los Angeles, California circa 1959. (Photo by Jess Rand/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Kitty Wells
Ray Price, who had a hit with a Justin Tubb song
Jim Reeves
Hank Snow
Country singer songwriters the Davis Sisters (Mary Frances Penick, better known as Skeeter Davis with Betty Jack Davis and Ernie Newton on Bass) on stage at the Grand Ole Opry circa 1951 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Bob Grannis/Getty Images)
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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT – 25th AUGUST: Toni Tennille from American pop duo Captain & Tennille performs live on stage in New Haven, Connecticut on 25th August 1975. (Photo by Fin Costello/Redferns)
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The SNL stage on display during a media preview on May 29, 2015 at the Saturday Night Live: The Exhibition, celebrating the NBC programs 40-year history. The exhibit, which opens May 30, will illustrate a week in the life of SNL's offices and studios in 30 Rockefeller Center – complete with original scripts, set pieces, props, costumes, masks and interactive elements from the show's 40 years since debuting in October 1975. AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)
