Country songwriter Dallas Frazier dead at 82 after penning hits for Elvis Presley and Diana Ross
dailymail.co.ukCountry songwriter Dallas Frazier died, age 82, on Friday at a care facility in Gallatin, TN after suffering two strokes in late 2021.The three-time Grammy nominee's songs were recorded by the likes of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Diana Ross, Engelbert Humperdink, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Jack Greene, George Jones, Charley Pride, Emmylou Harris, and Tanya Tucker.In 1981, The Oak Ridge Boys covered Dallas' 1961 track Elvira, which became one of their signature songs.
RIP: Country songwriter Dallas Frazier died, age 82, on Friday at a care facility in Gallatin, TN after suffering two strokes in late 2021 (pictured in 2019)'We lost a dear friend today,' the five-time Grammy-winning band said in a statement on Friday.'Dallas Frazier had an influence on our country music career from the beginning.
He wrote The Baptism of Jesse Taylor. But his influence in the 1980s was even greater after we recorded his song #Elvira. Rest in peace, Dallas.
We will see you on the other side.' '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,' Frazier told journalist Tom Roland in a 2018 interview.'It can make or break a record.
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