Jack Rhodes
Composer
1908 – 1968
Who was Jack Rhodes?
Andrew Jackson Rhodes was an American country music producer and songwriter with songwriting credits on over 100 released records. Several of his songs became hit records, including "A Satisfied Mind", "Silver Threads and Golden Needles", "Conscience I'm Guilty", "The Waltz of the Angels", "Beautiful Lies", and "Till the Last Leaf Shall Fall". Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972, he is most recently celebrated as one of the founding fathers of Rockabilly, imparting a country/rock infusion. He was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 2009, and memorabilia is currently on exhibit at the Mineola Historical Museum in Mineola, Texas.
Jack Rhodes is recognised for the groundbreaking Rockabilly songs, "Rockin Bones", "Action Packed" and "Woman Love". Revered as an influential mentor for many an upstart artist in the mid to late 1950s, he and his fellow collaborators wrote many songs for Gene Vincent while on the Capitol label.
BMI awarded him for over a million radio broadcasts for "Silver Threads and Golden Needles", and has received numerous gold records for various releases. One of these was a US country music #1 Hit with "A Satisfied Mind" by Porter Wagoner.
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