Composer and Musician. He wrote over 1000 songs including 25 gold records; inducted into the Country Music Songwriter Hall of Fame on Oct 11, 1971 in Nashville, Tennessee. He wrote "Mockin' Bird Hill," "Sugarfoot Rag," "Charlie was a Boxer," "Mule Skinner's Blues," "Till the end of the World," and "In Care of Uncle Sam," which was a popular song of airmen during bombing raids in 1943.
Composer and Musician. He wrote over 1000 songs including 25 gold records; inducted into the Country Music Songwriter Hall of Fame on Oct 11, 1971 in Nashville, Tennessee. He wrote "Mockin' Bird Hill," "Sugarfoot Rag," "Charlie was a Boxer," "Mule Skinner's Blues," "Till the end of the World," and "In Care of Uncle Sam," which was a popular song of airmen during bombing raids in 1943.
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