Winfield Scott (songwriter)

Winfield Scott (songwriter)

Winfield Scott (also known as Robie Kirk) was a songwriter who wrote the hit songs "Tweedle Dee" for LaVern Baker and "Return to Sender" for Elvis Presley.cite web
url=http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/elvisnews_qandawithwinfieldscott.shtml
title=Interview with Winfield Scott
publisher=
accessdate=2006-11-13
] "Return to Sender", written for the Presley film "Girls! Girls! Girls!", was his biggest hit, selling over has sold about 14 million copies in the U.S. alone.

Scott was a long time collaborator of Otis Blackwell and together they were hired to write a song for a Presley flim for the film "Roustabout". The film was release in (1964) but the recording of the song "I'm a Roustabout" by Presley was never used. In 2003 a remark made to a reporter by Scott started a search for the lost song recording of the Elvis song which was eventually found and now has been released. [cite web
url=http://www.elvis.com/news/full_story.asp?id=457
title=Lost Elvis Song I'm a Roustabout
publisher=
accessdate=2006-11-20
]

Another Scott and Blackwell collaboration is the R&B classic "Home In Your Heart". [cite web
url=http://www.derektrucks.com/music.html
title=The Derek Trucks Band
publisher=
accessdate=2006-11-20
]

Partial song list

* "Bop-Ting-a-Ling" with Blackwell
* "We’re Comin’ In Loaded" with Blackwell
* "Easy Question" with Blackwell
* "Return to Sender" with Blackwell
* "One Broken Heart For Sale" with Blackwell
* "Please Don’t Drag That String Around" with Blackwell
* "(You’re The) Devil In Disguise" with Blackwell
* "Long Legged Girl" with Leslie McFarland
* "Stranger In The Crowd"
* "Comfy'n Cozy" with Blackwell (Conway Twitty)
* "A Bucket of Tears" (Peggy Lee}
* "Sweetheart" (Peggy Lee)

Notes

External links

* [http://www.elvis.com/news/full_story.asp?id=457 Interview with Winfield Scott]
* [http://www.elvis.com/news/full_story.asp?id=457 Lost Elvis Song I'm a Roustabout]


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