Jim Ed Brown, the mild-mannered crooner who spent a half-century at one of US country music's most prestigious venues, the Grand Ole Opry, died Thursday. Brown died from cancer at a hospital in Franklin, Tennessee, near Nashville, according to Webster Public Relations, which represented him. The singer won crossover success in 1959, topping both the pop and country charts with the song "The Three Bells" performed with his two sisters.

Source: Yahoo Music
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