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Dallas Frazier, a legendary and Grammy-nominated country music songwriter, has died. He was 82.
On Friday, Frazier died at a rehabilitation facility in Gallatin, Tennessee, according to theNew York Times.
Funeral services are set to take place on Thursday,Varietyreported. In lieu of flowers, Frazier requested donations be made to theNashville Rescue Mission.
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Born on Oct. 27, 1939, in Spiro, Oklahoma, Frazier found songwriting success early in life as a teenager.
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During his career, Frazier earned three Grammy nominations for working on “There Goes My Everything,” “All I Have To Offer You (Is Me),” and “Elvira.” He was alsoinducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famein 1976.
Back in 2018, Frazier spoke to journalist Tom Roland about songwriting and how there is a special element to the craft that can “make or break” a song.
“I’ve noticed this all my life in writing songs, there’s a thing called feel, and it’s magic when you get ahold of it,” he said, according toBillboard. “It can make or break a record. You can have a great song and all, but if it doesn’t have that feel, it just doesn’t do anything.”
“‘Elvira’ had the feel. And The Oaks, what a tremendous cut. With Richard Sterban doing his thing on it and the horns just making it first-class … it had so much magic in it, it’d just raise the hair on your arms,” he added.
In a statement after his death, Kyle Young, the CEO of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, toldBillboard: “Dallas Frazier is among the greatest country songwriters of all time.”
“He was a man of kindness, generosity, and faith, who overcame a hardscrabble upbringing to offer smiling gifts to all of us,” Young added. “He lived a beautiful life of a beautiful mind.”
source: people.com
