Here are two examples of singers/writers that strain the
definitions of both singer and writer:
Paul Petersen, best known for his acting on the "Donna Reed
Show" recorded a few minor pop hits during the shows heyday.
Later in the 1970s he published a string of paperback
originals.
Barry Sadler, who came to fame with "The Ballad of the Green
Berets," also churned out the paperback originals and my
impression was that they sold well. Sadler himself led
something of a hardboiled life. He was the defendent in a
murder trial in Tennessee and years later was shot in some
Central American country. Severely injured, he was brought
back to the states but died of his wounds. John Ed Bradley
did a superb magazine piece on Sadler's life and strange
death some years ago.
Richard Moore
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