About Sonny Throckmorton
James Fron "Sonny" Throckmorton (born April 2, 1941) is an American country music songwriter and singer. One of the most prolific country songwriters of the late 1970s and 1980s, he had more than 1,000 of his songs recorded by country artists and wrote or co-wrote more than fifteen number-one country hits, among them Merle Haggard's "The Way I Am", Jerry Lee Lewis's "Middle Age Crazy", T. G. Sheppard's "Last Cheater's Waltz", the Oak Ridge Boys' "Trying to Love Two Women", George Strait's "The Cowboy Rides Away", and the Judds' "Why Not Me". He also recorded as a performer, releasing two major-label albums: The Last Cheater's Waltz (Mercury, 1978) and Southern Train (Warner Bros., 1986). Throckmorton is a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and was named Songwriter of the Year by both Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) and the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI). In 2022 he received the Academy of Country Music's Poet's Award. == Early life == Throckmorton was born in Carlsbad, New Mexico, on April 2, 1941, the son of a Pentecostal preacher, and his family moved to Wichita Falls, Texas, shortly after his birth. According to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, he began making up songs as a child when his attention wandered from his father's sermons, growing up as an evangelist's son who traveled from one revival meeting to the next. His musical roots were in the church. In high school he formed a rockabilly band with friends.
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