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I Got A Feeling, Never Be Anyone Else But You, Sweeter Than You, I Wanna Be Loved, Mighty Good, Right By My Side, and You Are The Only One), and a host of other performers were coming to him for songs. Within a year the singer had placed several more of Knight's songs on the charts (a. A few months later, Nelson scored a major hit with Knight's Lonesome Town. This time it was the Nelson family attorney, carrying a two-thousand-dollar advance check and a publishing contract. Then a couple of hours later, he heard another knock at the door. Thinking he had blown his final chance at success, a depressed knight sat on his and stared at the walls. A few minutes later the singer thanked him and left. Baker played the teen idol a couple of what he thought were his best numbers. So I picked up my guitar and went to work'. 'He told me that he had heard from Sharon that I had some songs he might like. 'I was surprised when Ricky Nelson came knocking at my door', Knight recalls. He was almost broke when he ran into Sharon Sheeley again, and she introduced him to Ricky Nelson.
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Since his arrival in Los Angeles, Knight had been knocking on doors, trying to find a publisher for his original songs. Behind on his rent and car payments, Knight sold everything he had except his car and his guitar and headed west in 1958. Not long after that, the factory where Knight worked shut down. Meanwhile, down on their luck, Baker Knight and his band broke up. In 1958 she wrote Poor Little Fool for Ricky Nelson.
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In the early sixties Sharon Sheeley wrote a lot of songs, some of them together with her friend Jackie DeShannon, a singer/songwriter who would date Elvis in the mid-1960s (she also dated John Lennon when she was one of the opening acts on the Beatles' first US concert tour), and for the demos she used singers such as Glen Campbell, Delaney Bramlett, P.J.Proby and Mac Davis (who of course was the Davis who wrote In The Ghetto etc. Dave Dee retrieved the singer's Gretsch guitar from the road and took it to the local police station, where he played it for a while before handing it over to Eddies mother a couple of weeks later). When the car skidded into a lamp post, Eddie was thrown through the windscreen and died later in hospital. Eddie was on a UK tour with Gene Vincent and the pair was being driven through Chippenham to London. (While training as a 16 year old police cadet, Dave Dee was called to the scene of a car crash in April 1960 that resulted in the death of Eddie Cochran.
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She was in the UK in 1960 with Eddie Cochran when he was killed in a car accident. For Cochran she wrote Somethin' Else, Lonely, Cherished Memories and Love Again in 1958. Her name was Sharon Sheeley, she was the girlfriend of the late Eddie Cochran and a composer in her own right. But no one was interested in any of Knight's original compositions except for one young lady who worked in publishing on the West Coast. He took the group to Nashville where they recorded and released a few records. For a couple of years, he juggled working in a factory by day and playing clubs by night. He spent the early 1950s in the service, and formed a country band, Baker Knight & The Nightmares, when he returned home from overseas. was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on July 4, 1933. He has written songs for Hank Snow, Hank Williams Jr., Mickey Gilley, about a dozen tunes for Dean Martin, and fourteen for Ricky Nelson. The Wonder Of You was written by singer and composer Baker Knight (1933 - 2005)