LEGENDARY songwriter and producer Jerry Crutchfield died on January eleventh, his household introduced.
The enduring Nashville music determine - who wrote songs for Elvis Presley - was 87 years outdated.
Jerry's household has confirmed that the songwriter, producer, publishing government and music business veteran died on January 11, 2022.
The determine wrote greater than 150 songs which had been recorded by artists like Elvis Presley, Glen Campbell, Hank Williams Jr., Tanya Tucker, Tammy Wynette and Charley Satisfaction.
He additionally wrote the pop traditional Please Come to Boston for Dave Loggins.
His spectacular songwriting resume apart, Jerry launched MCA Music Publishing’s Nashville workplace and served as its president for 25 years. He additionally served as government VP and GM of Capitol/Liberty Information’ in Nashville from 1989 to 1992.
As a producer, Jerry lower albums for artists like Lee Greenwood (together with the signature hit “God Bless the USA”), Campbell, Wynette, Tracy Byrd, - and Buck Owens' collaboration "Act Naturally" with Beatle Ringo Starr.
He's survived by his spouse of 62 years, Patsy, his son Martin, his daughter Christy and grandchildren Adison, Chase and Luke Fields.
HIS MUSICAL MASTERY
Jerry was born on August 10, 1934 in Kentucky.
At age 18, he joined a gospel group however quickly determined to go a route that will quickly see him on the opposite facet of the recording window.
He attended Murray State College in Kentucky and shortly labored as an on-air character at native radio stations.
Within the Fifties, he made his approach to Nashville as a part of the band The Escorts. The group was signed by Chet Atkins beneath RCA Victor.
They even carried out stay on CBS, however Jerry shortly discovered even nice success writing for different artists.
He was all through the business as a first-class expertise scout and labored hands-on with the artists he wrote and produced songs for.
One particularly shut working relationship was with Tanya Tucker - he wrote greater than 20 High 10 hits for her from 1986 to 1994.
Jerry additionally labored in tv as producer of 52 syndicated Jimmy Dean tv exhibits.
In his later years, he wrote a sequence of youngsters’s books, The Adventures of Dr. Raccoon.
He served on the boards of the Nation Music Affiliation, the Gospel Music Affiliation and the Nashville chapter of The Recording Academy.
There's a scholarship in his identify at his alma mater - Murray State - and an exhibit there of his profession highlights.
FANS & FIGURES SPEAK OUT
Nation singer Lee Greenfield wrote to Twitter: "My life modified the day I met Jerry Crutchfield. He was the primary individual in Nashville to imagine in me & with out him,
I might have by no means had the profession in nation music that I’ve been blessed to have. We made magical data collectively. I'm sending prayers to Patsy & household."
The Nation Music Corridor of Fame additionally posted a message in mild of the information:
"Jerry Crutchfield, a longtime behind-the-scenes chief within the Nashville music neighborhood, died January 11 at age eighty-seven, after an leisure profession that stretches again for greater than seventy years," the group wrote.
A fan wrote on Jerry's legacy: "Jerry Crutchfield did all of it. He sang, he produced for Lee Greenwood, Ringo Starr, Chris LeDoux, and Tracy Byrd, and he wrote for Elvis, Ricky Nelson, Brenda Lee, and Charley Satisfaction.
And that is only a brief record."
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