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Bill Dees (William Marvin Dees, 24 January 1939, Borger, Texas – 24 October 2012, Mountain Home, Arkansas) was an American musician known for his songwriting collaborations with singer Roy Orbison.〔(William Yardley, ''Bill Dees, 73, Orbison Collaborator, Dies'', ) New York Times, November 1, 2012〕 ==Career== Dees played guitar and sang with a band called "The Five Bops", gaining enough recognition to perform on an Amarillo, Texas radio station. Dees eventually made his way to Nashville, Tennessee, where his meeting Roy Orbison led to a collaboration that produced a string of successful songs for Monument Records including the hits "Oh, Pretty Woman" and "It's Over". In 1967, Dees co-wrote all the songs for the Orbison album and MGM motion picture ''The Fastest Guitar Alive''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967) - Soundtracks )〕 Beyond his work with Orbison, Bill Dees wrote hundreds of songs, a number of which were recorded by performers such as Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Skeeter Davis, Glen Campbell, Billy Joe Royal, Frank Ifield, Mark Dinning and Gene Pitney. In 2000, he recorded his own album titled ''Saturday Night At The Movies'', a compilation of songs previously sung by Orbison that had been written with Dees and some that Dees had written alone. Dees resided near Branson, Missouri, and continued to write songs with collaborator Jack Pribek until his death on October 24, 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Songwriter Bill Dees Dies in Mountain Home )〕 He was living at a nursing facility in Mountain Home, Arkansas, at the time of his death. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bill Dees」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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