Fred Burch

Fred Burch is an American popular songwriter (born ?1931-1932). His hometown was Paducah, Kentucky but he was based in Nashville where he was a staff writer with the Cedarwood Publishing Co.

Burch and fellow songwriter Don Hill also recorded as South for a 1969 single "Barefoot In The Woods" on the Silver Fox label. In 1983 he wrote a musical, American Passion, with Willie Fong Young.

Selected songs
Co-writers' names are in brackets.


 * "Dream on Little Dreamer" - Perry Como hit (1965) (Jan Crutchfield)
 * "How High's the Watergate, Martha?" - David Allan Coe (Bob Robison)
 * "PT-109" - Jimmy Dean hit (1962) (Marijohn Wilkin)
 * "Tragedy" - Thomas Wayne hit (1959), Fleetwoods hit (1961), Brenda Lee (on album), Paul McCartney (album bonus track), others (Gerald Nelson)
 * "He Made a Woman Out of Me" - Bobbie Gentry, Bettye LaVette (Don Hill)
 * "Snakes Crawl at Night" - Charley Pride (Mel Tillis)
 * "Sing You Children" - Elvis Presley (Gerald Nelson)
 * "The Love Machine" - Elvis Presley (Chuck Taylor, Gerald Nelson)
 * "Yoga is as Yoga Does" - Elvis Presley (Gerald Nelson)
 * "Atlantic Coastal Line" - Burl Ives, Charley Pride (Mel Tillis)
 * "Strange"- Patsy Cline (Mel Tillis)
 * "Big Big World" - Johnny Burnette (Red West, Gerald Nelson)