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Bobby Braddock

Robert Valentine Braddock (born August 5, 1940) is an American country songwriter and record producer. A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Braddock has contributed numerous hit songs during more than 40 years in the industry, including 13 number-one hit singles.

Bobby Braddock

Robert Valentine Braddock

(1940-08-05) August 5, 1940
Lakeland, Florida

Early years[edit]

Braddock was born in Lakeland, Florida, to a father who was a citrus grower. Braddock spent his youth in Auburndale, Florida, where he learned to play piano and saxophone. The musician toured Florida and the South with rock and roll bands in the late 1950s and early 1960s. At the age of 24, Braddock moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a career in country music.

The classic, "He Stopped Loving Her Today," which Braddock co-wrote with Curly Putman, won the Country Music Association Song of the Year award two years in a row (1980 and 1981) and the 1981 Song of the Year from the Academy of Country Music. This song was voted "Country Song of the Century" in a poll by Radio & Records magazine, as well as "Best Country Song of All Time" in a poll conducted by the BBC and Country America magazine.

George Jones

1981 Music City News Songwriter of the Year

1981 Nashville Songwriters Association Song of the Year

1981 Inductee into the

Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

2011 Inductee into the

Country Music Hall of Fame

Between the Lines 1979

Love Bomb 1980

Hardpore Cornography 1983

Bobby Braddock Tribute Website

from dizzyrambler.com

Biography

with Music Journalist Larry Wayne Clark

Interview

from Songwriter Universe Magazine

2005 Article

with author Malcolm Gladwell

Podcast interview