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Dallas Frazier
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Dallas Frazier was a songwriter born in Spiro, Oklahoma, and raised in Bakersfield, California, and folks from George Jones to Elvis Presley sang his songs. He was the writer behind "There Goes My Everything" for Jack Greene and "Elvira" for the Oak Ridge Boys, and he went into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1976. He passed away on January 14, 2022.

Born
October 27, 1939
Hometown
Bakersfield, California
Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
Inducted 1976

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