Sanger D. Shafer

Sanger D. " Whitey " Shafer ( born October 24, 1934 in Whitney, Texas) is an American songwriter and country singer. He wrote numerous hits for stars like George Jones, Lefty Frizzell and George Strait.

Life

His musical career began in his hometown of Whitney Shafer; there he went on with a school band. In the following years he hoofed it through the United States, among others, the then unknown Willie Nelson. 1967 Shafer moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he signed with Blue Crest Music Publishing Company. He wrote there, including two songs for George Jones, Between My House And Home, and I'm A New Man In Town. Shafer received first with Musicor and later at RCA also a contract as a singer, which he, however, was not as successful as long as a songwriter.

Career

In the early 1970s, Shafer received an exclusive contract with Acuff - Rose Music. In the following time managed many country artists to occupy No. 1 on the country charts with its titles. Shafer wrote, among others, The Baptism Of Jesse Taylor for Johnny Russell, Tell Me Lying Eyes Are Wrong for George Jones and a number of hits for Moe Bandy, such as Bandy, the Rodeo Clown. For a long time he formed a friendship with Lefty Frizzell, whom he had met at his record company. With him, he wrote the title That's The Way Love Goes, with which both initially Johnny Rodriguez and 1983 Merle Haggard was able to place No. 1 on the country charts and I Never Go Around Mirrors.

In the 1980s, Shafer Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind and All My Ex 's Live In Texas wrote ( this together with his wife, Lyndia ), both of which were No. 1 hits for George Strait. The mid-1980s brought Shafer out two albums, I Never Go Around Mirrors and So Good For So Long, on which his greatest hits are included. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1989.

Today Whitey Shafer and his wife live just outside of Nashville and still writes songs for artists such as John Michael Montgomery, Lee Ann Womack and Kenny Chesney.