DAVE'S DIARY - 27 OCTOBER 2004 - GARY ALLAN
DEATH DÉJÀ VU FOR GARY ALLAN
When the
third wife of chart topping California born honky tonker Gary Allan died
of a self inflicted gun shot wound early on Monday October 25 it was the
latest in a series of country music tragedies.
Police are investigating the death of Angela L Herzberg in the Nashville
suburb of Hendersonville.
They were called to Allan's home Monday at 1:20 a.m., to find she had
apparently shot herself.
Additional forensic examinations are continuing that "may require
days or weeks," the police chief said.
 Gary Allan |
Allan,
real name Gary Allan Herzberg, and Angela both aged 36, and moved
from Huntington Beach, California, in 2003 after they wed in 2001. They have six children from their previous marriages. Tennessee State Medical Examiner Dr. Bruce Levy supports initial reports that the wound was self-inflicted. "A preliminary ruling from the state medical examiner's staff is that the death is the result of a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound," Hendersonville Police Chief David L. Key said. Allan's record label, MCA Nashville, confirmed the death and said in a statement, "We ask for your prayers for Angela's family and friends and especially for the children during this unimaginable time in their lives." |
Allan, who has toured Australia twice, cancelled dates, including an October
28 show in Portland, Maine, and weekend gigs in Uncasville, Connecticut
and Burgettstown, Pennsylvania.
The CMA had announced Monday that Allan would serve as a presenter at
the CMA Awards on November 9.
Allan won enthusiastic audiences on his Australian tours that included
a memorable concert at the now defunct Continental Café in the
inner Melbourne suburb, Prahran, with his hot band The Rhythm Wranglers.
Ironically, Mrs Herzberg died almost 11 months after Allan mentor Gary
Stewart shot himself at his Fort Pierce home in Florida on December 16,
2003.
Stewart, 59, killed himself with a bullet to the head, less than four
weeks after Mary Lou, his wife of 42 years, passed away in her sleep from
an apparent heart attack.
CLICK HERE for our
tribute to the man who Time magazine once dubbed "the king of honky-tonk"
from the DIARY on December 21.
SUICIDE STAPLE OF COUNTRY
Life imitates
art for many country artists torn between their battles with demons diverse
as booze and dope.
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Faron
Young, the Singing Sheriff, died on December 10, 1996, after shooting
himself in the head with a 38 pistol from his extensive gun collection
at his Hermitage home in Nashville. The
Louisiana born singer who took his nickname from his role in 1955
movie Hidden Guns, had a house full of guns, badges and honorary
sheriff titles. |
Young's
first chart action was in 1951 with Tattle Tale Eyes and Have
I Waited Too Long?
Faron reached #2 in 1953 with Goin' Steady and last made the Billboard
charts with Here's To You at #87 in 1989.
Young's best known hit here was Four In The Morning - perhaps the
time he chose to shoot holes in his ceiling and be bashed with a pool
cue in a Nashville kicker bar.
When Young was dating Billy Jean Eshlimar the late legend Hank William
held a pistol to Faron's head and took Eshlimar away from him.
Billy Jean was the second wife of Hank when he died in the back of a Cadillac
on New Year's Eve 1952.
She was also the wife of the late star Johnny Horton when he died at 35
in a car crash en route to Nashville from Texas on November 5, 1960.
Ironically, the last gigs both Hank and Horton performed were at famed
Skyline Club in Austin.
Young - one time publisher of Music City News - was honoured with a lyric
change in the late Shel Silverstein penned Dr Hook hit Cover Of The
Rolling Stone.
MEL STREET - BIRTH DAY ALSO DEATH DAY
| Acclaimed
stone country singer Mel Street shot himself at his Hendersonville
home on his 45th birthday on October 21, 1978. Street, born in West Virginia, ascended from his TV show in home state to the national charts in 1970 with House Of Pride. The flip side Borrowed Angel reached #10 in 1972 and prompted a brace of lauded hits such as Lovin' On Backstreets, Walk Softly On The Bridges, Forbidden Angel, I Met A Friend Of Yours Today and Barbara, Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know. Street also had a hit with Smokey Mountain Memories that later charted for the writer Earl Thomas Conley |
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Conley also
wrote the gaudy gem, When I'm Under The Table I'll Be Over You.
Street was honoured on the Dave Sanger produced 1998 Texas cheating concept
disc The Wandering Eyes - Songs Of Forbidden Love.
Thrice wed Texan troubadour Dale Watson performed Street hit Lovin'
On Backstreets and Asleep At The Wheel fiddler Jason Roberts sang
Street tune Forbidden Angel.
And for good measure Rosie Flores was vocalist on the Sterling Whipple
penned Gary Stewart hit In Some Room Above The Street.
Another country progeny to suicide was Billy Nelson who toured here with
his dad - singing actor Shotgun Willie - on his first Australian sojourn
in 1981.
Billy was word perfect on the Dead Livers hit I'd Love To Have A Joint
With Willie by the time he arrived home in Texas.
Australian country music has suffered a spate of suicides dating back
to Russ Hawking of The Hawking Brothers, on November 2, 1976, Wild Bill
Williams of Canberra and guitarist Trevor Rhodes of Brisbane band Buckskin
who released an album for Festival in 1978.
CLICK HERE for an interview with
Gary Allan and CD reviews.
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