Glitterfish Books, Inc.
Jerry Crutchfield, music industry icon, songwriter & producer revealed yet another talent to us. We loved working with this incredible man on a series of children’s books that he originally wrote for his grandchildren! Jerry’s publishing arm, Glitterfish Books, brought these books to print. If you have the opportunity, please seek them out, your children will love the characters and charm!
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Notable albums produced by Crutchfield that obtained gold, platinum, and multi-platinum status include those by Lee Greenwood, Tanya Tucker, Chris LeDoux, Tracy Byrd, and Lisa Brokop. He also produced artists such as Anne Murray, Dottie West, Tammy Wynette, Glen Campbell, Brenda Lee, Buck Owens, Jake Hess, Larry Gatlin, The Gatlin Brothers and Mylon LeFevre. He is known for producing the No. 1 pop hit, “Please Come to Boston” recorded by Dave Loggins.
Nominated multiple times as producer of the Country Music Association’s (CMA) “Song of the Year” award, Crutchfield has won that honor twice as well as having been a co-producer of a CMA Album of the Year. He has also been nominated for the Dove Award for three Gospel/Christian albums, having won the award for Traditional Gospel Record of the Year by The Hemphills.
As an award-winning songwriter, Crutchfield has had over 150 songs recorded by such major artists as Elvis Presley, Brenda Lee, Eddy Arnold, Tanya Tucker, Lee Greenwood, Lou Rawls, Ricky Nelson, Tammy Wynette, Ernest Tubb, Faron Young, Charley Pride, and Lefty Frizzell. His hit song “My Whole World Is Falling Down” was a top ten pop hit by Brenda Lee, and a significant European hit for French singer Sylvie Vartan.
Crutchfield is credited with establishing MCA Music Publishing as a major publishing house, and signing and working with writers such as Dave Loggins, Don Schlitz, Gary Burr, Rob Crosby and Mark Nesler. During his 25-year career at MCA, Crutchfield left to serve as Executive Vice President/General Manager of Capitol Records for four years. He then returned to MCA Music Publishing for a three-year period as president of its Nashville division.
He continues to run the Crutchfield Music Group of publishing companies (its Glitterfish Music catalog has had hits by George Strait, Tim McGraw and Martina McBride) while writing a series of “The Adventures of Dr. Raccoon” children’s books.