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Sherrill, Billy

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Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingSherrill, Billy
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See alsoCorporate body: Billy Sherrill Quintet
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Birth date19361105
Death date20150804
Place of birthPhil Campbell (Ala.)
Place of deathNashville (Tenn.)
Field of activityCountry music
Profession or occupationSound recording executives and producers Composers Lyricists
Found inCharles, R. Seven Spanish angels and other hits [SR] p1989: container (Billy Sherrill)
New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 11, 2015 (in obituary published Aug. 10: Billy Sherrill; b. Billy Norris Sherrill, Nov. 5, 1936, Phil Campbell, Ala.; d. Aug. 4, Nashville, aged 78; as a songwriter, record producer, and executive helped kick-start the career of Tammy Wynette, breathed new life into a declining George Jones, and was an architect of the so-called countrypolitan sound, which applied the tenets of 1960s pop maximalism to country music)
Associated languageeng