Larry Butler dies at 69

Larry Butler, the producer of some of Kenny Rogers’s biggest hits and the only Nashville session leader ever to win a Grammy Award for producer of the year, died on Friday at his home in Pensacola, Fla. He was 69.
His death was from natural causes, said Jana Talbot, a friend of the family. He died in 24/01/2012.

As a musician, producer, songwriter and record executive, Mr. Butler had a hand in creating significant country recordings that also became major pop hits in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s.

He played piano on Bobby Goldsboro’s “Honey,” the maudlin ballad that reached No. 1 on both the country and the pop charts in 1968. With the producer Chips Moman he wrote B. J. Thomas’s 1975 hit, “(Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song,” another single that reached the top of the country and pop charts.