Born October 27, 1939, in Spiro, Oklahoma, Dallas Frazier was a country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Although he was a recording artist in his own right, he is best-known as a songwriter and achieved his greatest successes in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Raised in Bakersfield, California, he spent time as teenager playing on the Hometown Jamboree radio program with Ferlin Husky. In 1954, he released his first single, “Space Command”, but achieved his first taste of success three years later when his song “Alley Oop” was covered by the Hollywood Argyles and reached Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart. Moving to Nashville, Tennessee and became a successful songwriter, penning a series of hits such as Ferlin Husky’s “Timber I’m Falling” (1964) and the Grammy Award-nominated Jack Greene single “There Goes My Everything” (1966). Dallas Frazier released his debut solo album, Elvira, in 1966. The title track was later a huge crossover hit when the Oak Ridge Boys covered it in 1981. He received another Grammy nomination for "All I Have to Offer You (Is Me)”, which was a Number 1 hit for Charley Pride in 1970. While he still released his own solo singles and albums, Dallas Frazier continued to write songs that were covered by Elvis Presley, O.C. Smith, George Jones, Brenda Lee, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Poco, Gene Watson, and many others. In 1976, he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. He left the music business in 1988 and became a minister. After suffering two strokes in 2021, Dallas Frazier died on January 14, 2022, at the age of 82.
