Kye Fleming

Nashville Songwriter Hall of Famer Kye Fleming grew up in many places as the daughter of a career Navy-man but considers Fort Smith, Arkansas home. She set out at the University of Arkansas to become a folk singer and performed her solo songwriter act in some of the legendary coffeehouses of the New York, Boston and Los Angeles scenes of the 1970s. On the brink of abandoning her career, when the bass player from Elvis Presley’s band, Jerry Scheff, contacted her and recommended her to Tom Collins of Pi-Gem Music where she was teamed up with pop guitarist, Dennis Morgan. The co-writing pair made history with the BMI Songwriter of the Year award three consecutive years from 1981-1983. Kye has written 42 BMI Award winning songs including seven #1 songs. She later teamed with legendary songwriter Janis Ian and crossed over to more mainstream pop songs recorded by legends like Tina Turner, Bette Midler and Willie Nelson. In this episode Kye discusses her songs “Falling Galling Gone” which played on the Sonny & Cher show in 1972, “Sleeping Single In A Double Bed,” “Crackers,” “Years,” “The Prayers of My Grandmother” (unreleased), “Missin’ You,” “Roll On Mississippi,” “Nobody,” “Smokey Mountain Rain,” “I Wouldn’t Have Missed It For The World,” “Cross My Broken Heart,” “Some People’s Lives,” “Give Me Wings,” and “Sometimes She Remembers” (unreleased)