Here are the notable deaths on September 19 throughout the years:

Clyde Julian “Red” Foley (June 17, 1910 – September 19, 1968) - A country music singer. Foley was born in Blue Lick, Kentucky. He began playing the guitar and the harmonica as a young boy and at age seventeen, he won first prize in a statewide talent show. Ultimately, he signed with Decca Records in 1941. His hit songs include “Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy,” “Birmingham Bounce,” “Old Shep,” “Sugarfoot Rag,” and “Tennessee Saturday Night.” “Peace in the Valley,” backed up by The Sunshine Boys, in 1951 became the first gospel record to sell a million copies, and “One By One,” a duet with Kitty Wells, became a chart topper in 1954. In the 1960s, he also had a hit dance record with square dancers from that era known as “The Salty Dog Rag.” For more than two decades, Foley was a major star of country music, selling in excess of twenty-five million records. He hosted the popular “Ozark Jubilee” television program between 1955 and 1960. During 1962-63, Foley was a regular cast member along with Fess Parker in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” an ABC television series based on the famous 1939 movie. Foley was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1967. He died unexpectedly in 1968 in Fort Wayne, Indiana at the age of 58 from a heart attack. He is interred in the Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Nashville. His daughter from his second marriage to Judy Martin (née Eva Alaine Overstake) is Shirley Lee Foley, who has been married to actor/singer Pat Boone since 1953. Shirley and Pat’s daughters are Cherry, Lindy, Laury, and singer Debby Boone. A dance to Red Foley’s song “The Salty Dog Rag” has been traditional at Dartmouth College since 1972, where it is taught to incoming freshman during orientation activities. The dance is believed to originate from The Putney School, and is also performed at the YMCA Sandy Island Camp in Lake Winnipesaukee. Here is Foley performing “Peace in the Valley”: