He died on August 27th 2019 age 76.
Linde wrote numerous hit songs for mainly country music singers, beginning with hits for Roger Miller and Roy Drusky in 1970.
It became Jones' first chart single, following several unsuccessful singles released during the prior year when it peaked at 4 on the Billboard country charts.
He died on October 28, 1948 in Michigan in a car accident.
Howard died on March 28, 2020 age 91 fifteen days after her 91st birthday, in Gallatin, Tennessee.
Carr later stopped for fuel at a gas station in Oak Hill, West Virginia, where he realized that Williams was dead.