{"id":5393,"date":"2019-04-11T05:32:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T09:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=5393"},"modified":"2019-04-11T05:32:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T09:32:25","slug":"singer-earl-thomas-conley-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/04\/singer-earl-thomas-conley-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Earl Thomas Conley Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F5brltWEffg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Earl Thomas Conley died Wednesday, April 10th at the age of 77 in Nashville. The Tennessean reports he had been in hospice care for several months suffering from a condition similar to dementia.<\/p>\n<p>Conley&#8217;s biggest hits came in the late 1970s and 80s, charting 18th Number One hits including \u201cHolding Her and Loving You,\u201d \u201cRight From the Start,\u201d and \u201cWhat I\u2019d Say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several country stars took to social media to express their sadness.<\/p>\n<p>Blake Shelton shared a picture of himself on stage with Conley performing.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BwFQvTTBofy\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>John Rich tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1116026434441678848&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Terri Clark wrote.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BwF8sZXjHI8\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2019\/04\/10\/country-singer-earl-thomas-conley-dies\/3424361002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A source told The Tennessean<\/a> that Conley did not want a funeral, and his body was donated to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earl Thomas Conley died Wednesday, April 10th at the age of 77 in Nashville.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":5395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,813,814,815],"class_list":["post-5393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-blake-shelton","tag-earl-thomas-conley","tag-holder-her-and-loving-her","tag-terri-clark"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 01:29:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/04\/singer-earl-thomas-conley-passes-away\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5394,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393\/revisions\/5394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}