Country music great Ferlin Husky, shown in this undated album photograph, a pioneer in both the hard-twang Bakersfield and lushly produced Nashville sounds who scored his biggest hit with the ballad “Gone,” has died on March 17, 2011, at his daughter’s home in Westmoreland, Tennessee, at age 85. REUTERS/Courtesy Heart of Texas Records/HandoutReuters
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) – Country music great Ferlin Husky, a pioneer in both the hard-twang Bakersfield and lushly produced Nashville sounds who scored his biggest hit with the ballad “Gone,” died on Thursday at age 85.
“Gone,” which spent 10 weeks at the top of the country charts in 1957 and reached No. 4 as a pop hit, was easily the most requested song of Husky’s half-century-plus career as a performer.
The Flat River, Missouri, native died at his daughter’s home in Westmoreland, Tennessee, about an hour north of Nashville. He had a history of heart problems and most recently had been hospitalized for congestive heart failure.
It had been a long decline, and Husky surprised many when he attended the ceremony for his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame last May.
He showed up connected to
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