Fred Burch

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Fred Burch is an American popular songwriter.[1] Burch and fellow songwriter Don Hill also recorded as South, a 1969 single "Barefoot In The Woods" on the Silver Fox label. In 1983 he wrote a musical, American Passion, with Willie Fong Young.[2][3]

Selected songs

  • "Dream on Little Dreamer." - a hit for Perry Como in 1965[4]
  • "How High's the Watergate, Martha?"[5]
  • "PT-109"

References

  1. Billboard - 1 Jan 1966 - Page 29 "Burch's biggest to date is the Perry Como hit last year, "Dream on Little Dreamer."
  2. East West: The Chinese-American News Magazine 1975 "According to the author, novelist Patrick Anderson, Young and another songwriter, Fred Burch (of "How High's the Watergate, Martha?" fame) met in 1969 when Young"
  3. Dan Dietz Off Broadway Musicals, 1910-2007: Casts, Credits, Songs, Critical Reception p16
  4. Charles Portis, Jay Jennings - Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany 2012- Page 80 "Nevertheless, with a few really big sellers and a small catalog of standards, a writer can retire young. Crutchfield and collaborator Fred Burch, both thirtyish and Kentuckians, are two comers, part of Nashville's new wave. They wrote Dream On, Little Dreamer ..."
  5. MusicVF.com - Fred Burch

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