RIP Mac Gayden. He passed 5 days ago, age 83. That news will mean a lot to different folks—musicians, singers and fans of different musical genres including country, folk, rock and soul who have been touched by his music.

For one thing, he was one half of the writing team that gave the world the song Everlasting Love, originally written for Robert Knight and of course immortalised by Love Affair.

And for our soul scene, he was the guy behind Herbert Hunter's "I Was Born to Love You", Joe Simon's "When" and whole load of other artist's material including The Valentines, Fabulettes, Clifford Curry—the list really does go on, particularly as far as Sound Stage 7 releases go.

I was lucky enough to connect with Mac just before I embarked on the House of Broken Hearts: The Soul of 1960s Nashville project. He was a huge help in supplying backroom stories, filling in gaps in my knowledge, and providing leads to artists who I'd never have been able to track down otherwise. The guy even helped push my book in Nashville (Mac on the right here).

Rest up. A job well done.

Edited April 21Apr 21 by Windlesoul

As you say, a guy whose name appears on so many great songs. Rest easy, sir.

“Everlasting Love” is a great song as are others in his CV.

RIP Mac Gayden