{"id":74810,"date":"2015-06-12T11:17:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T16:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=74810"},"modified":"2015-06-12T11:17:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T16:17:29","slug":"singer-jim-ed-brown-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=74810","title":{"rendered":"Singer Jim Ed Brown passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/brownjimed2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-74811\" alt=\"brownjimed2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/brownjimed2.jpg\" width=\"74\" height=\"94\" \/><\/a>FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) &#8211; Longtime Grand Ole Opry member Jim Ed Brown has died. He was 81.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Brown&#8217;s death Thursday was announced in a news release from Webster Public Relations. The release said Brown died of cancer at Williamson Medical Center in Franklin, Tennessee.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Brown had hits as a solo singer and part of a duet and trio. He also was a prominent figure on country music television shows in the 1970s and 1980s. He will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame this year.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With his two sisters, as the trio the Browns, they had the No. 1 hit &#8220;The Three Bells&#8221; on both the pop and country charts in 1959. The trio recorded for RCA Records from 1954 to 1967.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sisters Bonnie and Maxine left the group in the mid-1960s to raise their families. Jim Ed then had a solo career, beginning with the hit &#8220;Pop-A-Top Again&#8221; in 1967. Others were &#8220;Morning&#8221; in 1970 and &#8220;Southern Living&#8221; in 1973. His last chart record as a solo was in 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) &#8211; Longtime Grand Ole Opry member Jim Ed Brown has died. He was 81. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Brown&#8217;s death Thursday was announced in a news release from Webster Public Relations. The release said Brown died of cancer at Williamson Medical Center in Franklin, Tennessee. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Brown had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74814,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74810\/revisions\/74814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}