The following is a list of a few of those songs and artists: "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town" Kenny Rogers "Detroit City" Bobby Bare "Emotions"ěrenda Lee "I Ain't Never" Webb Pierce Songwriting: Mel has written well over 1,000 songs, and approximately 600 have been recorded by major artists. In October of 2007, Mel Tillis became a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. The Grand Ole Opry inducted Mel Tillis as its newest member on June 9, 2007. Mel was the recipient of the Golden Voice Entertainer Award for 2001. (BMI) named Mel Tillis the Songwriter of the Decade for two decades.
On September 21, 1999, Broadcast Music, Inc. Also, for six years in the 70's, Mel Tillis won Comedian of the Year. In 1956, Webb Pierce recorded a song written by Mel entitled "I'm Tired"?, and it launched Mel's musical career.Īwards: In 1976, Mel Tillis was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters International Hall of Fame, and that same year, he was named Country Music Association's (CMA) Entertainer of the Year.
If I lost it all tomorrow, I guess I could say it only cost me $29.00 and it's been one heck of a ride!"Ĭountry music legend, Mel Tillis, started performing in the early '50's with a group called The Westerners while serving as a baker in the United States Air Force, stationed in Okinawa.
2002 marks my 46th year in the music business. "It seems like just yesterday that I left Florida head'n for Nashville, Tennessee in my '49 Mercury with a busted windshield, a pregnant wife and $29.00 in my pocket.
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