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Country Music Legend Walt Aldridge Passes Away at 70

11/20/2025

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Walt Aldridge, a prominent country songwriter from Muscle Shoals, Tennessee, died at age 70 on November 20, 2025.
Aldridge wrote or co-wrote 56 top-40 Billboard country songs, including "(There’s) No Gettin’ Over Me" and "I Loved Her First."
Aldridge spent 17 years at FAME recording studios during the 1980s.
Aldridge was inducted into Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2017 and Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 2018.

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Walt Aldridge, a prominent country songwriter from Muscle Shoals, Tennessee, died at age 70 on November 20, 2025.
Aldridge wrote or co-wrote 56 top-40 Billboard country songs, including "(There’s) No Gettin’ Over Me" and "I Loved Her First."
Aldridge spent 17 years at FAME recording studios during the 1980s.
Aldridge was inducted into Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2017 and Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 2018.