Fred Burch

For the footballer, see Freddie Burch.

Fred Burch is an American popular songwriter (born ?1931-1932).^[1][2] His hometown was Paducah, Kentucky but he was based in Nashville where he was a staff writer with the Cedarwood Publishing Co.^[3][4]

Burch and fellow songwriter Don Hill also recorded as South for a 1969 single "Barefoot In The Woods" on the Silver Fox label.^[5][6] In 1982 he wrote a musical, American Passion,^[7] with Willie Fong Young.^[8][9]

Selected songs

Co-writers' names are in brackets.^[10]

• "Dream on Little Dreamer" - Perry Como hit (1965)^[11] (Jan Crutchfield)
• "How High's the Watergate, Martha?"^[12] - 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)