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Milton Sims "Mickey" Newbury Jr. (May 19, 1940 – September 29, 2002) [2] was an American singer-songwriter and a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Sep 29, 2002 · Mickey Newbury originally did Baby Just Said Goodbye, The Sailor - Song of Sorrow - Let's Say Goodbye One More Time and It Don't Matter Anymore. Mickey Newbury wrote Weeping Annaleah, Just Dropped In and San Francisco Mable Joy.
Oct 1, 2002 · Mickey Newbury, who quietly altered the fabric of country music in the late Sixties and Seventies, died on September 29th of emphysema; he was sixty-two.
Oct 1, 2002 · Mickey Newbury, part of a wave of Texas musicians whose literate songwriting helped change country music in the 1960s, has died. He was 62.
"An American Trilogy" is a 1972 song medley arranged by country composer Mickey Newbury and popularized by Elvis Presley, who included it as a showstopper in his concert routines. The medley uses three 19th-century songs: "Dixie" — a popular folk song about the southern United States.
Jul 14, 2013 · The American Trilogy era from Mickey Newbury’s body of work has become an absolute wellspring of musical material for other artists, and one that helped lay the groundwork for country music’s Outlaw era.
Mickey Newbury. Milton Sims “Mickey” Newbury Jr. (May 19, 1940 – September 29, 2002) was an American songwriter and recording artist from Houston, Texas. He was also a member of the...
Sep 28, 2002 · In the late 1960s, Mickey Newbury was one of a handful of outsider songwriters who started slipping poetry and folk music influences into the Nashville mainstream. His complex, emotional story songs owed more to Leonard Cohen than Lefty Frizzell.
Oct 5, 2002 · Mickey Newbury, who wrote Kenny Rogers's first hit and arranged ''An American Trilogy'' as performed by Elvis Presley, died of emphysema on Sunday. He was 62...
Nov 9, 2010 · The records that emerged from engineer Wayne Moss's garage studio - Looks Like Rain (1969), 'Frisco Mabel Joy (1971) and Heaven Help the Child (1973) - are Newbury's masterpieces. They not only...