Fred Burch

Fred Burch is an American popular songwriter. 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 1982 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
"How High's the Watergate, Martha?" - David Allan Coe
"PT-109" - Jimmy Dean hit
"Tragedy" - Thomas Wayne hit, Fleetwoods hit, Brenda Lee, Paul McCartney, others
"He Made a Woman Out of Me" - Bobbie Gentry, Bettye LaVette
"Snakes Crawl at Night" - Charley Pride
"Sing You Children" - Elvis Presley
"The Love Machine" - Elvis Presley
"Yoga is as Yoga Does" - Elvis Presley
"Atlantic Coastal Line" - Burl Ives, Charley Pride
"Strange"- Patsy Cline
"Big Big World" - Johnny Burnette