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Nashville's Songwriting Sweethearts - The Boudleaux and Felice Bryant Story (Hardcover)
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Nashville's Songwriting Sweethearts - The Boudleaux and Felice Bryant Story (Hardcover)
Series: American Popular Music Series
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You might not know the names of Boudleaux and Felice Bryant, but
you know their music. Arriving in Nashville in 1950, the
songwriting duo became the first full-time independent songwriters
in that musical city. In the course of their long careers, they
created classic hits that pushed the boundaries of country music
into the realms of pop and rock. Songs like ""Bye Bye Love,"" ""All
I Have to Do Is Dream,"" ""Love Hurts,"" and ""Rocky Top"" inspired
young musicians everywhere. Here, for the first time, is a complete
biography of Nashville's power songwriting couple. In Nashville's
Songwriting Sweethearts, authors Bobbie Malone and Bill C. Malone
recount how Boudleaux and Felice, married in 1945, began their
partnership as itinerant musicians living in a trailer home and
writing their first songs together. In Nashville the couple had to
deal with racism, classism, and in Felice's case, sexism. Yet
through hard work and business acumen - and a dose of good luck -
they overcame these obstacles and rose to national prominence. By
the late 1990s, the Bryants had written as many as 6,000 songs and
had sold more than 350 million copies worldwide. They were inducted
into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972, and in 1991
they became members of the Country Music Hall of Fame - a rare
occurrence for songwriters who were not also performers. In 1982
their composition ""Rocky Top"" was adopted as one of the official
state songs of Tennessee. The Bryants were lucky enough to arrive
in the right place at the right time. Their emergence in the early
fifties coincided with the rise of Nashville as Music City, USA.
And their prolific collaboration with the Everly Brothers,
beginning in 1957, sparked a fusion between country and pop music
that endures to this day.
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