Fred Burch

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

Co-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

^ 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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[1] Billboard - Jan 1, 1966 - Page 29 "Burch's biggest to date is the Perry Como hit last year, "Dream on Little Dreamer."

[2] Unverified detail in press report, June 3, 1962: "At the age of 30 ..."

[3] "P.T.109... Former Paducah Man Writes Hit Song", The Paducah Sun, Paducah, Kentucky, June 3, 1962, page 23

[4] Display advertisement by Cedarwood Publishing Co, Billboard, January 25, 1964

[5] Artist page for South at Discogs.com.

[6] "Barefoot In The Woods" discographic details and image of label at 45cat.com.

[7] Stern, Alan (November 9, 1982). "Patricia Birch's lab project". The Boston Phoenix. Retrieved October 1, 2024.

[8] 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"

[9] Dan Dietz Off Broadway Musicals, 1910-2007: Casts, Credits, Songs, Critical Reception p16

[10] Fred B. Burch repertoire of copyrighted works at BMI-ASCAP's Songview Database

[11] 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 ..."

[12] MusicVF.com - Fred Burch

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