Donald Irwin Robertson (born 5 December 1922, Beijing, China) was a songwriter, mostly in the country and popular music genres. Events 63 BC - Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National A songwriter is someone who writes the Lyrics to songs the Musical composition (chords or Melody to songs or both Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. Popular music is Music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972. The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame was established by the Nashville Songwriters Foundation Inc Events January 17 - Highway 51 South in Memphis Tennessee is renamed " Elvis Presley Blvd" January 20 - As a performer, he hit the US top ten with "The Happy Whistler" in 1956.

Best known published songs

• "Anything That's Part of You"
• "Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger" (with Doris Clement and John Crutchfield)
• "Born to Be with You"
• "Hummingbird"
• "I Don't Hurt Anymore" (with Jack Rollins)
• "I Love You More and More Every Day"
• "I'm Counting on You"
• "I Really Don't Want to Know" (with Howard Barnes)
• "Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street)" (with Hal Blair)
• "No More" (with Hal Blair, performed by Elvis Presley)
• "Please Help Me, I'm Falling" (with Hal Blair)
• "Ringo" (with Hal Blair)
• "There's Always Me"
• "You're Free to Go" (with Lou Herscher)

External links

• Don Robertson site
• Nashville Songwriters' Foundation Biography of Don Robertson