Bonnie Guitar
Full Name: Bonnie Buckingham
Birth Date: March 25, 1923
Deceased Date: January 12, 2019
Artist Bio:
One of the earliest female country-pop crossover singers with “Dark Moon” (#6, Country #14, 1957) plus eight other Country Top 40 hits, co-founded Dolton Records to energize her own music but instead brought R&B/doo wop The Fleetwoods (“Come Softly To Me,” #1, 1959) and instrumental/surf-rock The Ventures (“Walk Don’t Run,” #2, 1960) to national prominence, as an audio engineer, record producer and label executive in the 60s was an extremely rare female in the top echelons of a vastly male-dominated music industry, largely retired in the 70s but performed occasionally until shortly before her death from natural causes on 1/12/2019, age 95
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/obituaries/bonnie-guitar-dead.html
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