Country Broadcaster Carter, Songwriter Bourke Die

Nashville country music broadcaster and entertainment reporter Jimmy Carter has died at 73. He spent decades covering artists and industry news, including 21 years reporting red-carpet and Music Row events for WSMV and work on WSM Radio’s Coffee, Country & Cody; his family said he died in his sleep. Songwriter Rory Bourke, a Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member, also died at 84. Bourke co-wrote Charlie Rich’s “The Most Beautiful Girl” and wrote hits recorded by artists including Elvis Presley, George Strait, Anne Murray and K.T. Oslin; he was honored three times as ASCAP Country Songwriter of the Year.