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Obit: Songwriter Baker Knight: penned songs recorded by McCartney, Nelson,Presley & others

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Obit: Songwriter Baker Knight: penned songs recorded by McCartney, Nelson,Presley & others

(From the L.A. Times)

Baker Knight, who wrote almost 1,000 songs from the late 1950s through the 1970s and whose "Lonesome Town" was recorded decades apart by Ricky Nelson and Paul McCartney, has died. He was 72.

Knight died Wednesday of natural causes at his home in Birmingham, Ala., according to his daughter.

When Knight came to Los Angeles in 1958, he met Nelson through a mutual friend. Within six months, Nelson's version of "Lonesome Town," a ballad about being lonely in Hollywood, was on Billboard's Top 10, as was its flip side, "I Got a Feeling," another Knight tune.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/obituar...0,6315980,print.story?coll=la-home-obituaries








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Re: Obit: Songwriter Baker Knight: penned songs recorded by McCartney, Nelson,Presley & others

The guy did compose some very memorable tunes, didn't he? It's always sad that for many talented composers the biggest accolades in their lives come in their deaths.






> (From the L.A. Times)
>
> Baker Knight, who wrote almost 1,000 songs from the late
> 1950s through the 1970s and whose "Lonesome Town" was
> recorded decades apart by Ricky Nelson and Paul McCartney,
> has died. He was 72.
>
> Knight died Wednesday of natural causes at his home in
> Birmingham, Ala., according to his daughter.
>
> When Knight came to Los Angeles in 1958, he met Nelson
> through a mutual friend. Within six months, Nelson's version
> of "Lonesome Town," a ballad about being lonely in
> Hollywood, was on Billboard's Top 10, as was its flip side,
> "I Got a Feeling," another Knight tune.
>
> (Read more at this link. Free registration may be
> required.)
>
>
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me> -knight15oct15,0,6315980,print.story?coll=la-home-obituaries
>
 
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