Ep. 3 - DALLAS FRAZIER ("Elvira")
Dallas Frazier first appeared as a recording artist on Capitol Records in 1954. He moved from California to Nashville in 1963, eventually placing 42 songs in the Top 20 on\xa0Billboard\u2019s country singles chart. Ten of those songs climbed to the #1 position. His music has been recorded by George Jones, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Emmylou Harris, Charley Pride, Ferlin Husky, Dolly Parton, Randy Travis, Ricky Skaggs, Patty Loveless, and countless others. He wrote "There Goes My Everything," the Country Music Association single of the year in 1967, and was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1976. But there was more to Dallas Frazier than country music. His first hit was the #1 pop smash \u201cAlley-Oop\u201d in 1960, and he appeared on the\xa0Billboard\xa0country, pop, and R&B charts an astounding 152 times. In addition to his country recordings, Dallas\u2019 songs have been covered by Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Beach Boys, Keith Richards, Tina Turner, Diana Ross, Percy Sledge, Slim Harpo, Peggy Lee, Englebert Humperdinck, Gram Parsons, Lucinda Williams, and even Bob Dylan. He has won BMI performance awards for more than twenty of his songs including \u201cAll I Have to Offer You Is Me,\u201d \u201cFourteen Carat Mind,\u201d \u201cIf My Heart Had Windows,\u201d \u201cWhat\u2019s Your Mama\u2019s Name Child,\u201d \u201cSon of Hickory Holler\u2019s Tramp," and \u201cElvira.\u201d