Filed under: News, R.I.P.
Laura Stilson
MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. (AP) - Bill Dees emerged from his days as an
out-of-cash young songwriter to pen tunes recorded by
Johnny Cash,
Loretta Lynn and other country music greats, but the centerpiece of his career was his work with
Roy Orbison, including
co-writing the classic rock hit, "
Oh, Pretty Woman." Dees, who died in Arkansas last week at age 73, had said writing that song with Orbison in 1964 changed his life. In a 2008 interview with National Public Radio, Dees recalled that the night they penned the hit song, Orbison told him he wouldn't need to go to work that Monday if he didn't want to.
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