Country legend Dallas Frazier dead, writer of Oak Ridge Boys hit ‘Elvira’ was 82

Legendary nation songwriter Dallas Frazier handed away on the age of 82.
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Songwriter Dallas Frazier, a multi-Grammy winner who's enshrined within the Nashville Songwriters Corridor of Fame, died on Friday, in line with a report. He was 82.

Frazier constructed a profession on his notable songwriting capability, creating hits like Hollywood Argyles’ 1960 hit “Alley Oop”, The Oak Ridge Boys‘ 1981 traditional “Elvira,” and the 1971’s Jack Greene-recorded “There Goes My Every little thing.”

“Dallas Frazier is among the many biggest nation songwriters of all time,” stated Kyle Younger, CEO of the Nation Music Corridor of Fame and Museum, Billboard reported. 

Frazier, who was born in Spiro, Oklahoma, additionally co-wrote quite a few No. 1 hits with A.L. “Doodle” Owens, together with 1969’s “All I Must Provide You (Is Me),” which was Charley Delight‘s first No. 1 Billboard Scorching Nation Songs hit.

Delight scored two different No. 1 nation hits alongside Frazier and Owens, together with “(I’m So) Afraid of Shedding You Once more,” in 1969, “I Can’t Consider That You’ve Stopped Loving Me,” in1970, and “Then Who Am I,” in 1974. (Delight died in 2020 to COVID-19-related problems).

“He may convey infectious enjoyable with ‘Elvira,’ after which write one thing as stunningly unhappy and true as ‘Beneath Nonetheless Waters,’” Younger added. “His songs helped Connie Smith to turn into a member of the Nation Music Corridor of Fame. He was a person of kindness, generosity, and religion, who overcame a hardscrabble upbringing to supply smiling presents to all of us. He lived a phenomenal lifetime of a phenomenal thoughts.”

Dallas Frazier (left), Marty Stuart (middle) and Connie Smith carry out on the Nation Music Corridor of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee on Sept. 25, 2019.

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In 1976, Frazier was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Corridor of Fame, and he continued producing prime hits.

Frazier wrote “Beneath Nonetheless Waters” for Emmylou Harris in 1980, which turned a No. 1 nation hit. He additionally co-wrote Tanya Tucker‘s “What’s Your Mama’s Identify?” which turned her first No. 1 hit, Billboard reported.

Frazier’s applauded writing capability created a magical really feel to listeners, he stated in an interview in 2018 with journalist Tom Roland.

“I’ve seen this all my life in writing songs, there’s a factor known as really feel, and it’s magic if you get ahold of it,” Frazier stated. “It will possibly make or break a file. You may have an important music and all, but when it doesn’t have that really feel, it simply doesn’t do something. ‘Elvira’ had the texture. And The Oaks, what an incredible lower. With Richard Sterban doing his factor on it and the horns simply making it top notch…it had a lot magic in it, it’d simply increase the hair in your arms.”