Linde, Dennis
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Birthname | Dennis Norvell Bell | ||||
born on | 18 March 1943 at 13:27 (= 1:27 PM ) | ||||
Place | Abilene, Texas, 32n27, 99w44 | ||||
Timezone | CWT h5w (is war time) | ||||
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Biography
American singer-songwriter based in Nashville who had over 250 of his songs recorded. Rarely working with co-writers, he wrote both words and music for most of his songs. In 1994, Linde won BMI's "Top Writer Award" and received four awards as BMI's most-performed titles for that year. He earned 14 BMI "Million-Air" songs (a song played on the air one million times).
He is best known for writing the 1972 Elvis Presley hit, "Burning Love", and he also wrote ten top-5 U.S. country hits. He also wrote "Goodbye Earl", a gold single for the Dixie Chicks in 2000.
In 2001, he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Linde died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on 22 December 2006 at the age of 63.
Events
- Work : Prize 2001 (Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame)
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield provided birth report, Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Texas), 19 March 1943, p. 27. Full name from Texas Birth Index.
Categories
- Diagnoses : Body Part Problems : Lung (Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis)
- Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Instrumentalist (Acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drums)
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Song writer
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Vocalist/ Pop, Rock, etc.
- Notable : Awards : Hall of Fame (Nashville Songwriters)
- Notable : Awards : Vocational award
- Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession
- 1943 births
- Birthday 18 March
- Birthplace Abilene, TX (US)
- Sun 27 Pisces
- Moon 21 Leo
- Asc 7 Cancer
- 2006 deaths
- Diagnoses : Body Part Problems : Lung
- Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Instrumentalist
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Song writer
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Vocalist/ Pop, Rock, etc.
- Notable : Awards : Hall of Fame
- Notable : Awards : Vocational award
- Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession