RIP - Curly Putnam

Claude "Curly" Putman, Jr. (November 20, 1930 – October 30, 2016)

Member of the Nashville Song Writers Hall Of Fame

Writer of :
 

• "Green, Green Grass of Home" (Putman)
• "My Elusive Dreams" (Putman/Billy Sherrill)
• "Dumb Blonde" (Putman)
• "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" (Putman/Bobby Braddock)
• "He Stopped Loving Her Today" (Putman/Bobby Braddock)
• "Let's Keep It That Way" (Putman/Rafe Vanhoy)
• "I Wish That I Could Hurt That Way Again" (Putman/Rafe Vanhoy/Don Cook)
• "Blood Red and Going Down" (Putman)
• "Do You Wanna Go To Heaven" (Putman/Bucky Jones)
• "Smooth Sailing" (Putman/Sonny Throckmorton)
• "Set Me Free" (Putman/Marvin Walters)
• "It's a Cheating Situation" (Putman/Sonny Throckmorton)
• "It Don't Feel Like Sinnin' To Me" (Putman/Mike Kosser)
• "Couldn't Love Have Picked A Better Place To Die" (Curly Putman/Bucky Jones)

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For more information on Curly Putnam and his career:

Rolling Stone

Wikipedia