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One of the Music Industry's most prolific songwriters

For almost five decades, BMI award winning songwriter John Durrill's works have been recorded by more than sixty major recording artists in the US and around the world. Frank Sinatra, Bette Midler, Cher, The Everly Brothers, Chicago, Ray Charles, Merle Haggard, The Statler Brothers, Joe Williams, Sarah Vaghan, Peggy Lee and Reba are a sampling of the artists whose hits have sold over fifty million singles, albums, DVD's and CD's of John's compositions.

In 1963 John formed The Five Americans along with his close friend Mike Rabon. Mike and the group member Norm Ezell, wrote and sang the Group's first top ten hit, "I See The Light", soon followed by the number one record "Western Union" which sold over a million copies.

In 1968 Durrill left the The Five Americans and joined the internationally famous instrumental group, "The Ventures" in Hollywood, California. Shortly after their mega hit "Hawaii 5-0", John co-wrote "Kyoto Doll." The track was released by The Ventures in Japan and soon the multi million selling single became a standard recorded by scores of artists in the Far East. In March, 2008 The Ventures were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with John Mellencamp, Madonna, Leonard Cohen, and the Dave Clark Five.

Besides his over forty year affiliation with The Ventures, John is one of the Music Industry's most prolific songwriters. In 1970 he joined forces with one of Hollywood's all time, most successful, record producers, Snuff Garrett. Virtually every record project produced by Snuff had the Durrill name attached to it as a writer. During this period, John worked with Clint Eastwood, writing songs and music backgrounds for five of Clint's popular films. His song "Misery and Gin", written for the movie "Bronco Billy" went on to become number one in the charts for the legendary Merle Haggard. In Eastwood's "Any Which Way You Can', Durrill wrote five of the movies songs. John appears in the film alongside Sandra Locke and Clint Eastwood as she performs Johns track "The Good Guys and The Bad Guys."

John wrote for over twenty motion pictures and television series including "Smokey and The Bandit II", "Sharkey's Machine", "The Cannonball Movies", and "Reba".

Over the years Cher has recorded five of Durrill's songs including her number on hit, "Dark Lady" and "I saw A Man" and "He Danced With His Wife". The Everly Brothers' sang three of his compositions and Chicago's XXV Christmas CD included his song "Child's Prayer" which he co-wrote with Lee Loughnana, one of the founding members of the group.

See some of his music currently available for film tv and media at Resource Sound>

http://www.resourcesound.com





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