Winfield Scott(1920-2015)
- Soundtrack
Winfield Scott was born in New York City. He was initially a
singer/songwriter. Early in his career he was known as Robbie Kirk of
the singing group 'The Cues". In 1954 he worked with record producer
Art Ertegun of Atlantic Records, where he met
La Vern Baker. He wrote "Tweedlee Dee" in
1954 for Ms Baker which became a #4 R'n'B and #14 Pop hit for her. It
was one of the first "crossover hits". As often the case at that time,
Georgia Gibbs' cover version of "Tweedlee
Dee" received a majority of the airplay on some stations. Winfield
often collaborated with Otis Blackwell
who introduced him to Elvis Presley. He
wrote the "super hits" "Return To Sender", "Devil In Disguise" and "One
Broken Heart For Sale", as well as several other songs used in Elvis'
films. Most recently "I'm A Roustabout", written by Winfield and
deleted from Roustabout (1964), has
surfaced and has been released on an Elvis Compilation CD.
