The Professional Work of Owens, Arthur Leo
Arthur Leo Owens (aka "Doodle”) born Nov. 28, 1930 in Waco, Texas; died Oc. 4, 1999 in Nashville, Tennessee, was an accomplished country music songwriter. In 1966, Owens moved to Nashville and began co-writing with Dallas Frazier, a relationship that resulted in over 100 singles. Owens had a long songwriting partnership with Dallas Frazier, with whom he wrote several No.1 country hits for Charlie Pride.
Other hits included Right Left Hand, Fourteen Minutes Old, Touching Home and Johnny One Time, which charted for Brenda Lee. Arthur Leo Owens was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1999. Doodle received a BMI Million-aires (1 million performances) award for his composition of Fourteen Minutes Old.
Arthur Leo Owens Song Catalog, Partial Listing:
- All I Have to Offer You Is Me (Charley Pride, 1969)
- (I'm So) Afraid of Losing You Again (Charley Pride, 1969)
- I Can't Believe That You've Stopped Loving Me (Charley Pride, 1970)
- Touching Home (Jerry Lee Lewis, 1971)
- Johnny One Time (Brenda Lee, 1969)
- The Right Left Hand (George Jones, 1987)
- Just For What I Am (Connie Smith, 1972)
- It Was Always So Easy (To Find an Unhappy Woman) Moe Bandy, 1975
- Fourteen Minutes Old (Doug Stone, 1990)
10. Would You Walk With Me Jimmy? (Arlene Harden, 1973)
11. Where Did They Go, Lord ( Elvis Presley, 1970)
12. Wine Colored Roses (George Jones, 1986)
13. Hank and Lefty Raised My Country Soul (Stoney Edwards, 1973)
14. Big Tears Are Comin’ – co-written by Buddy Mize (M. Montgomery, 1965)
15. Goodbye of the Year (Jerry Lee Lewis, 1971)
16. Somebody to Finish What You Started (Lynn Anderson, 1974)
17. I Won't Go Back to Denver (Lynn Anderson, 1974)
18. Where Is All That Love You Talked About (Lynn Anderson, 1974)
19. Then Who Am I (Charley Pride, 1974)
20. Ain’t Nothin’ Shakin’ (But the Leaves) George Jones, 1966
21. She Wakes Me Every Morning With A Kiss (Jack Greene, )
22. Somebody Wants Me Out of the Way (George Jones, 1985)
23. True Love Travels on a Gravel Road (Ronnie McDowell)
24. Champagne Ladies and Blue Ribbon Babies (Ferlin Husky, 1974)
25. Raggedy Ann (Charlie Rich, 1970)
26. Because You Believed In Me (Gene Watson, 1976)
27. I'll Break Out Again Tonight (Merle Haggard, 1974)
28. Back In My Baby's Arms Again (Charlie Walker, 1966)
29. I Don't Mind Goin' Under (Charlie Walker, 1972)
30. I Just Started Hatin' Cheatin' Songs Today (Moe Bandy, 1977)
31. Touch of Yesterday (Ferlin Husky, 1966)
32. He Wakes Me With A Kiss Every Morning (Skeeter Davis, 1971)
33. She Wakes Me With A Kiss Every Morning (Nat Stuckey, 1974)
34. The Bird (George Jones, 1987)
1-5, 7, 11, 13-15, 19-21, 23-25, 28, 29, 31-33 Co-written by Dallas Frazier; 6, 9, 12, 22, 34 Co-written by Dennis Knutson; 8, 10, 27, 30 Co-written by Sanger D. "Whitey" Shafer; 16-18 Co-written by Glenn Sutton; 26 Co-written by Gene Vowell and Shorty Hall
