Fred Burch is an American popular songwriter (born ?1931-1932).[1][2] His hometown was Paducah, Kentucky but he was based in Nashville where he was a staff writer with the Cedarwood Publishing Co.[3][4]
Burch and fellow songwriter Don Hill also recorded as South for a 1969 single "Barefoot In The Woods" on the Silver Fox label.[5][6] In 1982 he wrote a musical, American Passion,[7] with Willie Fong Young.[8][9]
Selected songs
editCo-writers' names are in brackets.[10]
- "Dream on Little Dreamer" - Perry Como hit (1965)[11] (Jan Crutchfield)
- "How High's the Watergate, Martha?"[12] - David Allan Coe (Bob Robison)
- "PT-109" - Jimmy Dean hit (1962) (Marijohn Wilkin)
- "Tragedy" - Thomas Wayne hit (1959), Fleetwoods hit (1961), Brenda Lee (on album), Paul McCartney (album bonus track), others (Gerald Nelson)
- "He Made a Woman Out of Me" - Bobbie Gentry, Bettye LaVette (Don Hill)
- "Snakes Crawl at Night" - Charley Pride (Mel Tillis)
- "Sing You Children" - Elvis Presley (Gerald Nelson)
- "The Love Machine" - Elvis Presley (Chuck Taylor, Gerald Nelson)
- "Yoga is as Yoga Does" - Elvis Presley (Gerald Nelson)
- "Atlantic Coastal Line" - Burl Ives, Charley Pride (Mel Tillis)
- "Strange"- Patsy Cline (Mel Tillis)
- "Big Big World" - Johnny Burnette (Red West, Gerald Nelson)
References
edit- ^ Billboard - Jan 1, 1966 - Page 29 "Burch's biggest to date is the Perry Como hit last year, "Dream on Little Dreamer."
- ^ Unverified detail in press report, June 3, 1962: "At the age of 30 ..."
- ^ "P.T.109... Former Paducah Man Writes Hit Song", The Paducah Sun, Paducah, Kentucky, June 3, 1962, page 23
- ^ Display advertisement by Cedarwood Publishing Co, Billboard, January 25, 1964
- ^ Artist page for South at Discogs.com.
- ^ "Barefoot In The Woods" discographic details and image of label at 45cat.com.
- ^ Stern, Alan (November 9, 1982). "Patricia Birch's lab project". The Boston Phoenix. Retrieved October 1, 2024.
- ^ East West: The Chinese-American News Magazine 1975 "According to the author, novelist Patrick Anderson, Young and another songwriter, Fred Burch (of "How High's the Watergate, Martha?" fame) met in 1969 when Young"
- ^ Dan Dietz Off Broadway Musicals, 1910-2007: Casts, Credits, Songs, Critical Reception p16
- ^ Fred B. Burch repertoire of copyrighted works at BMI-ASCAP's Songview Database
- ^ Charles Portis, Jay Jennings - Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany 2012- Page 80 "Nevertheless, with a few really big sellers and a small catalog of standards, a writer can retire young. Crutchfield and collaborator Fred Burch, both thirtyish and Kentuckians, are two comers, part of Nashville's new wave. They wrote Dream On, Little Dreamer ..."
- ^ MusicVF.com - Fred Burch
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