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Musicians Who Died in September 1973

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  • Sep 6 William Henry Harris, English composer, dies at 90
  • Sep 12 Eduard Flipse, Dutch conductor and composer, dies at 77
  • Sep 15 Victor Jara, Chilean folk singer-songwriter, and political activist, killed by Augusto Pinochet's military interrogators at 40
  • Sep 17 Hugo Winterhalter, American composer, dies at 63
  • Sep 19 Gram Parsons [Cecil Ingram Connor III], American country-rock singer-songwriter (Byrds - Sweethearts of the Rodeo; Flying Burrito Brothers; "Grievous Angel"), dies of a drug overdose at 26
  • Sep 20 Ben Webster, American jazz tenor saxophonist, dies at 64
  • Sep 20 Jack Marshall, American jazz and session guitarist, film and television composer, arranger, and record producer (Capitol Records), dies at 51

Jim Croce (1943-1973)

Sep 20 American singer-songwriter ("Time in a Bottle"; "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"), dies in a plane crash at 30

Jim Croce
  • Sep 20 Maurice T. "Maury" Muehleisen, American musician and songwriter (Jim Croce), dies in a plane crash at 24
  • Sep 21 William Plomer, South African-British libretto writer (Curlew River), dies at 69
  • Sep 23 Manuel Borguñó, Spanish pianist, composer, choral director, and pedagogue, dies at 89


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