David Bartholomew(1918-2019)

Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1998.

[on advising the head of Imperial Records not to release his now-iconic arrangement of "Blueberry Hill" sung by Fats Domino] I said, "Man, you're crazy. That's a nothing song." Two weeks later, Lew [Lew Chudd, head of Imperial Records] called me and said, "From now on, you keep making those 'nothing songs'." We had just shipped three million. That was unheard of during that time period. He said, "Go downtown and pick out any kind of car you want for your bonus." I went out and got the biggest Eldorado Cadillac I could find.