Fred Rose

Knowles Fred Rose (August 24, 1898 – December 1, 1954) was an American musician, Hall of Fame songwriter, and music publishing executive.

Biography Born in Evansville, Indiana, United States,

Rose died in Nashville from a heart attack in 1954 and was interred there in the Mount Olivet Cemetery.

Along with Hank Williams and the "Father of Country Music", Jimmie Rodgers, Rose was one of the first three inductees of the Country Music Hall of Fame when it opened in 1961. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 and into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1985. In 1986, son Wesley would join his father in the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Selected list of Fred Rose songs "A Pair of Broken Hearts" (Rose/Carson) – Hank Snow "At Mail Call Today" (Rose/Autry) – Gene Autry "Be Honest with Me" (Rose/Autry) – Gene Autry "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" (Rose) – Roy Acuff, Willie Nelson, Olivia Newton-John, Hank Williams (on Mothers Best Show), Alain Bashung "Blue Love (In My Heart)" (Floyd Jenkins) – Hank Williams "Charlestonette" (Rose/Whiteman) – Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra "Crazy Heart" (Rose/Maurice Murray) – Hank Williams "'Deed I Do" (Rose/Walter Hirsch) – Sophie Tucker "Deep Henderson" (Rose) – Joe "King" Oliver, The Ipana Troubadors, Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra "Deep Water (Rose) – Bob Wills, Carl Smith, George Strait, Don Everly "Dreaming the Waltz Away" (Rose/Whiteman) – Jesse Crawford "Faded Love and Winter Roses" (Rose) – Carl Smith, Hank Williams, David Houston "Fireball Mail" (Floyd Jenkins) – Roy Acuff, Wanda Jackson "Flamin' Mamie" (Rose/Whiteman) – Coon-Sanders Orchestra, Aileen Stanley "Foggy River" (Rose) – Moon Mullican, Red Foley, Carl Smith "Hang Your Head in Shame" (Rose/Ed G. Nelson/Steve Nelson) – Bob Wills, Red Foley "Home In San Antone" (Rose) – Bob Wills, Ray Price, Moe Bandy "I Can't Go On This Way" (Rose) – Bob Wills "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" (Rose/Williams) – Hank Williams "I Hang My Head And Cry" (Rose) Gene Autry, Marty Robbins, Hank Williams (on the Mother's Best Show) "It's a Sin" (Rose/Grishaw) – Eddy Arnold "Kaw-Liga" (Rose/Williams) – Hank Williams, Hank Williams, Jr., Carl Perkins, Charley Pride, Del Shannon, Jayke Orvis & the Broken Band, "No One Will Ever Know" (Rose/Mel Foree) – Marty Robbins, Gene Watson, Hank Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis "Pins and Needles (In My Heart)" (Floyd Jenkins) – Bob Atcher and Bonnie Blue Eyes, Darrell McCall, Hank Williams (on Mothers Best Show) "Red Hot Henry Brown" (Rose) – The Charleston Chasers, Margaret Young "Red Hot Mama" (Rose/Wells Gilbert/Bud Cooper) – Sophie Tucker, Cliff Edwards "Roly Poly" (Rose) – Bob Wills, Carl Smith, Hank Williams, Jim Reeves "Settin' the Woods on Fire" (Rose/Ed G. Nelson) – Hank Williams, Johnny Burnette "Take These Chains From My Heart" (Rose/Heath) – Hank Williams "Texarkana Baby" (Rose/Clark) – Eddy Arnold, Bob Wills "Waltz of the Wind" (Rose) – Roy Acuff, Carl Smith, Hank Locklin, Marty Robbins, Hank Williams