Teddy of The Wilburn Brothers dies at 71

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(Every time another classic country artist dies our band ends up doing at least one of his/her tunes at the gig that week. Let's see...I know 'Somebody's Back In Town' pretty well.... -ubp)

From the Nashville Tennessean:

http://tennessean.com/entertainment/news/archives/03/11/43075117.shtml

Teddy of The Wilburn Brothers dies at 71

By CRAIG HAVIGHURST
Staff Writer

Teddy Wilburn, half of a country duo that excelled in both music and the music business from the 1950s through the 1970s, died yesterday from congestive heart failure after a battle with a rare form of Parkinson's disease at Southern Hills Medical Center. He was less than a week shy of his 72nd birthday.

The Wilburn Brothers, Teddy and Doyle, sang close harmony on such hits as 'Hurt Her Once for Me', and wrote songs such as 'Somebody's Back in Town' and Let Me Be The First To Know.

They also founded publishing and booking companies that aided the careers of Loretta Lynn, Jean Shepard, Sonny James, the Osborne Brothers and others. Doyle died in 1982.

Because Mr. Wilburn's lead singing and his brother's tenor harmony evoked the style of acts such as the Monroe Brothers and the Louvin Brothers, ''Many people deemed the Wilburn Brothers to be the last reat brother duet act in country music,'' WSM disc jockey and country music historian Eddie Stubbs said yesterday.

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1. I used to watch their Tv show when I was very young...

it came on between wrestling and "The Porter Waggoner Show"