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A.k.a. Theodore Clifford Harris Ted Harris
US-American songwriter, born 2 August 1937 in Lakeland, Florida, died 22 November 2015 in Lewisburg, Tennessee, USA. At 12 he wrote his first song. On 14 October 1971, Harris was elected to the Board of Directors of the Country Music Association representing composers, in 1990 he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2001 he retired and sold his publishing company to Sony/ATV Music Publishing.