Deed I Do- Arne Fogel

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He was born in Evansville, Indiana, in 1897, and he died in Nashville Tennessee, in 1954. At the time of his death, he was recognized as one of the greatest names in the history and development of the Country Music industry in America. His name was Fred Rose. He was known as a major publishing executive and talent scout in the Country field. He even wrote some songs with Gene Autry and was the composer of such immortal country classics as BE HONEST WITH ME, TEARS ON MY PILLOW, ROLY POLY, BLUE EYES CRYING IN THE RAIN, and TAKE THESE CHAINS FROM MY HEART. But here’s a little-known fact about this Country Music Hall-Of-Famer: Before discovering Country music, he wrote songs for people like Sophie Tucker, and worked in New York and Chicago nightclubs.  And before landing a job writing songs for singing movie cowboy Ray Whitley, which led Rose to a life in the Country field, he wrote the one NON-Country hit song for which he is remembered. From 1927, his only standard from the pre-Nashville years, Fred Rose and Walter Hirsh’s classic, “Deed I Do”….