Country 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.
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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. You can have a great song and all, but if it doesn’t have that feel, it just doesn’t do anything. Elvira had the feel. And The Oaks, what a tremendous cut. With Richard Sterban doing his thing on it and the horns just making it first class…it had so much magic in it, it’d just raise the hair on your arms.’
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Gone too soon: The three-time Grammy nominee’s (pictured in 1966) 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
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‘We lost a dear friend today’: In 1981, The Oak Ridge Boys covered Dallas’ 1961 track Elvira, which became one of their signature songs (pictured in 2018)
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’
11-time Grammy nominee Connie Smith recorded 72 of the hitmaker-turned-minister’s songs between 1966-2021.
‘The world lost a wonderful Christian man and one of the most successful songwriters in country music history,’ the 80-year-old singer’s rep said in a statement.
‘Connie and Dallas were musical soulmates and great friends. At her appearance on the Grand Ole Opry [on Saturday], Connie spoke fondly of her friend Dallas while making last minute changes to her 3-song setlist to perform Frazier’s I Love Charley Brown, If it Ain’t Love (Let’s Leave it Alone), and Where is My Castle?
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Frazier told Tom Roland in a 2018 interview: ‘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. It can make or break a record. You can have a great song and all, but if it doesn’t have that feel, it just doesn’t do anything’
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‘The world lost a wonderful Christian man and one of the most successful songwriters in country music history’: 11-time Grammy nominee Connie Smith recorded 72 of the hitmaker-turned-minister’s songs between 1966-2021
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‘He was humble and kind’: Dallas penned country crooner Gene Watson’s first No. 1 hit Fourteen Carat Mind
‘Most sincere condolences go to his wife Sharon and the Frazier family. Dallas will be dearly missed. While so sad about his passing, we celebrate his life, his legacy and the many, many wonderful songs he has left behind for us.’
Dallas penned country crooner Gene Watson’s first No. 1 hit Fourteen Carat Mind.
‘I’m sorry to hear the great songwriter and great man, Dallas Frazier has passed. He wrote so many of our greatest country hits,’ the 78-year-old Texan wrote in a statement.
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Tribute: In 1976, Frazier was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the organization is also mourning his loss
The 2020 trailer for Elvira: The True Story of Dallas Frazier
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‘Had I not been poor I’d never been a songwriter’: The Oklahoma-born, Cali-raised writer made his final appearance in Scott McDaniel’s 65-minute short Elvira: The True Story of Dallas Frazier, which screened at the 2020 Nashville Film Festival
‘He also wrote Elvira, There Goes My Everything, All I Have to Offer You (Is Me) and so many more. He was humble and kind on top of that. We were just lucky to have him writing his songs for country music. RIP Dallas.’
In 1976, Frazier was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the organization is also mourning his loss.
The Oklahoma-born, Cali-raised writer made his final appearance in Scott McDaniel’s 65-minute short Elvira: The True Story of Dallas Frazier, which screened at the 2020 Nashville Film Festival.
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