A Guitar and a Pen by Robert Hicks

Author:Robert Hicks [HICKS, ROBERT]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: MUS010000
ISBN: 9781599951386
Publisher: Center Street
Published: 2008-05-14T04:00:00+00:00

Bob McDill

Bob McDill is a retired songwriter and music publisher. During his long career he wrote thirty-one number-one songs, as well as songs for movies and television. His movie credits include The Thing Called Love and Primary Colors. He was elected to the Nashville Songwriters Association Hall of Fame in 1985 and is the only Nashville songwriter ever to be voted Writer of the Year by both Broadcast Music Inc. and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

He has lectured on music and Southern culture at the University of South Carolina and at Lamar University and was prominently featured in Nobel laureate Sir V. S. Naipaul’s book A Turn in the South. He now works as a freelance magazine writer and has written articles and stories for several national publications.

Bob is a member of the Coffee House Club, a Nashville men’s club that began in 1909. He sits on the William G. Hall Scholarship committee at Belmont University. He assisted in fund-raising for Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in 1985 and 1988. He is a past member of the Nashville Board of Governors of NARAS as well as a former member of the ASCAP advisory board and a supporter of Nashville Opera and Tennessee Repertory Theater. He was named a distinguished alumnus of Lamar University in 1989. His biography appears in the 1991–1992 editions of Who’s Who in the South and Southwest and Who’s Who in the World.

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