Bob McDill

Bob McDill

Infobox Musical artist
Name = Bob McDill


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Background = non_performing_personnel
Birth_name = Robert Lee McDill
Born = birth date and age|1944|04|04
Origin = Walden, Texas, USA
Genre = Country
Occupation = Songwriter
Years_active = 1967-199x
Associated_acts = Alan Jackson
Waylon Jennings
Don Williams
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Bob McDill (born Robert Lee McDill, April 4, 1944 in Walden, Texascite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:aifoxqwgldde~T1 |title=Bob McDill biography |accessdate=2008-04-12 |last=Hogan |first=Ed |work=Allmusic] ) is an American country music songwriter. Active from the 1960s until the late 1990s, he has written several songs for country music artists, including more than thirty Number One hits. In addition, McDill has received several Songwriter of the Year awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated and the Nashville Songwriters Association International. [cite web |url=http://www.nashvillesongwritersfoundation.com/fame/mcdill.html |title=Bob McDill |accessdate=2008-04-12 |work=Nashville Songwriters Foundation]

Biography

Born Robert Lee McDill in Walden, Texas, McDill began writing songs while still a child. Eventually, he learned to play the guitar, and soon took up singing gospel with his family. He then went on to play in several local bands throughout high school. He then attended Lamar University, graduating in 1966;cite web |url=http://www.bluegrassjournal.com/2008/02/13/bob-mcdill-poet-and-prophet/ |title=Bob McDill next honoree as "Poet and Prophet" at the Country Music Hall of Fame |accessdate=2008-04-12 |last=Tackett |first=Travis |date=2008-02-13 |work=Bluegrass Journal] after graduating, he enlisted in the United States Navy for two years. While in the Navy, he received songwriting advice from songwriter and record producer Allen Reynolds, who helped McDill land his first cut as a songwriter — "The Happy Man", recorded in 1967 by Perry Como. One year later, Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs provided McDill with his second cut when they recorded his "Black Sheep".)

After his stint in the Navy, McDill moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he planned to pursue a full-time career as a songwriter. By 1970, he and Reynolds had moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where the two found work at Jack Music, a publishing company owned by Jack Clement. Although he had initially tried to write rock and pop songs, McDill soon shifted his focus to country music after hearing George Jones' song "A Good Year for the Roses".

McDill's first cut for a country artist was "Catfish John", recorded in 1972 by Johnny Russell. For the next thirty years afterward, McDill wrote one song a week, with artists such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Anne Murray, Don Williams, and Mickey Gilley recording his songs. McDill continued to write songs into the 1990s, including "Gone Country" by Alan Jackson; "All the Good Ones Are Gone" by Pam Tillis (which received a Grammy Award nomination in 1998), and "Why Didn't I Think of That" by Doug Stone. McDill retired from songwriting in the late 1990s.

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