Whitey Shafer

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Sanger D. "Whitey" Shafer (born October 24, 1934 in Whitney , Texas ; † January 12, 2019 ) was an American songwriter and country singer. He wrote numerous hits for stars like George Jones , Lefty Frizzell and George Strait .

Life

Beginnings

Shafer started his musical career in his hometown of Whitney; there he performed with a school band. In the following years he toured the United States, among others with the then unknown Willie Nelson . In 1967 Shafer moved to Nashville , Tennessee , where he signed with the Blue Crest Music Publishing Company. There he wrote two songs for George Jones , Between My House And Home and I'm A New Man In Town . Shafer received a contract as a singer, initially with Musicor and later with RCA , but with this he was nowhere near as successful as as a songwriter.

Career

In the early 1970s, Shafer received an exclusive contract with Acuff-Rose Music . In the following time, many country musicians managed to reach number 1 on the country charts with his titles. Shafer wrote The Baptism Of Jesse Taylor for Johnny Russell , Tell Me Lying Eyes Are Wrong for George Jones and a number of hits for Moe Bandy , such as Bandy, the Rodeo Clown . He had a long friendship with Lefty Frizzell , whom he had met at his record company. With him he wrote the title That's The Way Love Goes , with which both Johnny Rodriguez and 1983 Merle Haggard was able to place at No. 1 on the country charts, as well as I Never Go Around Mirrors .

In the 1980s Shafer Does Fort Worth wrote Ever Cross Your Mind and All My Ex's Live In Texas (these with his wife Lyndia), both of which became George Strait's No. 1 hits . In the mid-1980s Shafer released two albums, I Never Go Around Mirrors and So Good For So Long , which included his greatest hits. In 1989 he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame .

Whitey Shafer lived just outside Nashville with his wife and wrote songs for artists such as John Michael Montgomery , Lee Ann Womack and Kenny Chesney .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Legendary songwriter with strong ties to Nashville dies at 84. In: NewsChannel5.com. January 13, 2019, accessed January 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Shafer, Whitey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shafer, Sanger D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American songwriter and country singer
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Whitney , Texas
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 2019