Behind Closed Doors

Album: Behind Closed Doors (1973)
Charted: 16 15
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Kenny O'dell
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 4

  • Papa Mac from GeorgiaYep, Charlie was a great piano player, although he didn’t play on “Behind Closed Doors”. That was Pig Robbins-great session player in Nashville.
  • Jennifur Sun from Ramonawhat a voice and what a piano player. RIP Charlie
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyPer: http://www.oldiesmusic.com/news.htm {03-31-2018}...
    Singer/songwriter Kenny O'Dell, best remembered for "Beautiful People" (#38 in 1967, also a #37 hit in a cover version by Bobby Vee) died Tuesday (March 27th, 2018, though some reports say a day later) at a health care facility outside of Nashville at the age of 73...
    Born Kenneth Gist, Jr. in Antlers, Oklahoma, he also wrote "Next Plane To London" by the Rose Garden and Charlie Rich's "Behind Closed Doors". He was the Songwriter of the Year in 1984 for the Nashville Songwriters Association and was inducted into their Hall of Fame in 1996...
    May he R.I.P.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyAs noted above, "Behind Closed Doors" was composed by Kenny O'Dell; he also wrote two other songs that peaked at #1 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart, "Trouble In Paradise, which Loretta Lynn took to #1 for one week in 1974, and the Judd's "Mama He's Crazy", it reached the top spot for one week in 1984...
    In 1967 the Rose Garden took his penned "Next Plane To London" to #17 on the Top 100 chart...
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