Boudleaux and Felice Bryant

Suppose a classical violinist from Georgia struck up a conversation with an elevator operator in a Milwaukee hotel. Normally if they married 5 days later we would say they were rash but there were extenuating circumstances. Matilda Genevieve Scaduto explained that she immediately recognized Diadorius Boudleaux Bryant as the man she had been dreaming about since she was 8 years old except he didn't have a beard. Miss Scaduto not only took Bryant's sir name but also his pet name for her, Felice. Felice was an incurable romantic who had written poetry for her own amusement since she was in grade school. Boudleaux had played violin since he was 5 and played one season in the Atlanta Philharmonic. With Felice as the lyricist and Boudleaux writing the music they became the George and Ira Gershwin of rock and roll and country music. From 1947 until Boudleaux's death in 1987 the couple composed songs that have sold an estimated 350 million records worldwide. For the Everly Brothers they wrote; Bye Bye Love, Problems, Bird Dog, and Take A Message To Mary. One of the songs offered to them, Raining In My Heart, they passed to Buddy Holly, who recorded the song at his final session in 1958, and enjoyed a posthumous hit the following year. Their songs were recorded by Roy Orbison, Tony Bennett, Sonny James, Eddy Arnold, Bob Moore, Charley Pride, Nazareth, Jim Reeves, Leo Sayer, Jerry Lee Lewis, Simon & Garfunkel, Sarah Vaughan, The Grateful Dead, Elvis Costello, Count Basie, Dean Martin, Ray Charles, Gram Parsons, and Bob Dylan.
Three songs are classics; Roy Clark's Come Live Me, You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma, and Rocky Top which was recorded first by the Osborne Brothers, and like another Tennessee favorite, The Tennessee Waltz, originally recorded on the B side.