Biography
Glenn Sutton (9/28/1937 - 4/17/2007) was a Country music songwriter & producer. Sutton wrote or co-wrote many of Tammy Wynette's early hits including "You're Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad", "The Ways To Love A Man", "I Don't Wanna Play House", "Bedtime Story", "Kids Say The Darnest Thing", and the last song Tammy ever sang in concert before her death in 1998, "Take Me To Your World". He also wrote "What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made A Loser Out Of Me)", which were recorded by Rod Stewart and Jerry Lee Lewis, as well as the David Houston classic, "Almost Persuaded". Sutton won a Grammy for "Almost Persuaded", which has been covered by artists from all genres of music, including Jazz legend Etta James. He even sang his own hit, "The Football Card", which hit #46 in 1979 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, and #55 on the Billboard Country Singles chart.
Sutton was also well known for his personal and professional relationship with Lynn Anderson, his wife from 1968 to 1977. He produced many of her hit recording, including her signature song "(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden". Sutton received a RIAA Platinum Award for producing "Rose Garden". Although he did not write the song, he did write several of Anderson's #1 Country hits.
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Sutton was awarded numerous BMI and ASCAP Awards for his compositions. Artists who have recorded Glenn Sutton-penned songs, reads like a who's-who in the recording industry. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame in 1999.
Sutton died in Nashville, TN, on April 17, 2007, of a heart attack.
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