Word: faron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...song for a paltry $150 to finance a move to Nashville. There he quickly made it as a songwriter, but for other singers. Crazy rose high on the charts when Patsy Cline recorded it. So did Funny How Time Slips Away as recorded by Jimmy Elledge, Hello Walls by Faron Young, and dozens of others. It seemed Willie could write a hit for anybody but himself. His own recordings went nowhere, perhaps because they were not truly his own. Producers decreed that he should be backed by slick studio musicians and often swathed in saccharine strings. What came...
...Faron Memorial Concert--Faure, Schubert and lute songs at Adams...
...playing broken-bottle clubs like the County Dump and the Bloody Bucket outside Fort Worth, where chicken wire protected the performers from airborne bottles. In 1960 he moved to Nashville and spent the next twelve years writing hits for other performers: Crazy for Patsy Cline, Hello Walls for Faron Young and standards like Funny How Time Slips Away...
Songs of church, spring, war, and love; I Dilletantl Nuovi; for the benefit of the Timothy Charles Faron Memorial Funds; Adams...
...funds were established this week in memory of Timothy Charles Faron '75, who died last month in Palo Alto, California. The University Choir is accepting contributions to the Faron Memorial Fund, which will be used to aid the choir, while the Adams House Office coordinates contributions to the Faron Fund for Music at Adams House...