Frazier additionally co-wrote 4 No. 1 pinches hit Charley Satisfaction.
Songwriter Dallas Frazier, understood for penciling hits consisting of The Oak Ridge Boys' 1981 timeless " Elvira," as well as Genetics Watson's "Fourteen Carat weight Mind," passed away Friday. He was 82.
Frazier was birthed in Spiro, Okla., on Oct. 27, 1939, as well as increased in Bakersfield, Calif. At age 12, he was currently composing tunes as well as won a skill competitors organized by Ferlin Husky. By age 14, Frazier was tape-recording for Capitol Records. In 1960, Frazier had his very first success as a songwriter, when "Street Oop" came to be a pop pinch hit the Hollywood Argyles. 3 years later on, he transferred to Nashville.
In 1967, the Frazier-penned "There Goes My Whatever," tape-recorded by Jack Greene, was called track of the year by the Nation Songs Organization.
Frazier additionally located success co-writing tunes with A.L. "Doodle" Owens, consisting of Charley Satisfaction's very first No. 1 Signboard Hot Nation Songs struck, 1969's "All I Need to Deal You (Is Me)." Satisfaction additionally had No. 1 nation strikes with the Frazier/Owens cooperations "( I'm So) Afraid of Losing You Once again," "I Can not Think That You have actually Quit Caring Me" as well as "After that That Am I."
Connie Smith as well as George Jones were additionally amongst those that tape-recorded numerous of Frazier's hits, such as Jones' 1967 hit "If My Heart Had Windows." (Jones additionally tape-recorded a whole cd of Frazier's tunes on Sings the Tunes of Dallas Frazier) Amongst the Frazier-penned Smith recordings are "Ain't Had No Lovin'," "Flee Little Splits," "Ain't Love an Advantage" as well as extra.
One More's of Frazier's best-known tunes, "Elvira," was formerly tape-recorded by Rodney Crowell prior to it came to be a blockbuster for the Oak Ridge Boys in 1981. The team's recording of the track gained the C and w Organization's solitary of the year honor.
" I have actually observed this all my life in composing tunes, there's a point called feeling, as well as it's magic when you obtain ahold of it," Frazier informed reporter Tom Roland in a 2018 meeting. "It can make or damage a document. You can have a terrific track as well as all, however if it does not have that feeling, it simply does not do anything. 'Elvira' had the feeling. As well as The Oaks, what a significant cut. With Richard Sterban doing his point on it as well as the horns simply making it first-rate ... it had a lot magic in it, it would certainly simply elevate the hair on your arms."
Throughout his profession, Frazier gained 3 Grammy elections, for his deal with "There Goes My Whatever," "All I Need to Deal You (Is Me)" as well as "Elvira."
In 1980, Frazier's "Below Still Seas" came to be a No. 1 nation pinched hit Emmylou Harris, as well as Frazier additionally co-wrote Tanya Tucker's very first No. 1 hit, "What's Your Mother's Call?"
Frazier was sworn in right into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Popularity in 1976.
" Dallas Frazier is amongst the best nation songwriters of perpetuity," stated Kyle Youthful, Chief Executive Officer of the C And W Hall of Popularity as well as Gallery. "He can communicate transmittable enjoyable with 'Elvira,' and after that compose something as amazingly depressing as well as real as 'Below Still Seas.' His tunes aided Connie Smith to come to be a participant of the C and w Hall of Popularity. He was a guy of compassion, kindness, as well as confidence, that conquered a hardscrabble childhood to use grinning presents to everybody. He lived a stunning life of a stunning mind."
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