Induction Year: 1976
Birth Name: Claude Putman Jr.
Birth Date: 11-20-1930
Place of Birth: Princeton, Alabama
Death Date: 10-30-2016
Place of Death: Lebanon, TN
"Blood Red and Goin' Down"
Tanya Tucker | 1973 | #1 country |
"D-I-V-O-R-C-E"
(written with Bobby Braddock)
Tammy Wynette | 1968 | #1 country, #63 pop |
"Do You Wanna Go to Heaven"
(written with Bucky Jones)
T. G. Sheppard | 1980 | #1 country |
"Dumb Blonde"
Dolly Parton | 1967 | #24 country |
"Green, Green Grass of Home"
Johnny Darrell | 1965 |
Porter Wagoner | 1965 | #4 country |
Bobby Bare | 1965 |
Jerry Lee Lewis | 1965 |
Charley Pride | 1966 |
Tom Jones | 1966 | #11 pop |
Johnny Cash | 1968 |
Merle Haggard | 1968 |
Joan Baez | 1969 |
Elvis Presley | 1975 |
Kenny Rogers | 1976 |
"He Stopped Loving Her Today"
(written with Bobby Braddock)
NSAI, ACM & CMA Song of the Year
George Jones | 1980 | #1 country |
"Hopelessly Yours"
(written with Don Cook, Keith Whitley)
George Jones | 1986 |
John Conlee | 1989 | #67 country |
Lee Greenwood & Suzy Bogguss | 1991 | #12 country |
"I Meant Every Word He Said"
(written with Joe Chambers, Bucky Jones)
Ricky Van Shelton | 1990 | #2 country |
"I Think I Know"
Marion Worth | 1960 | #7 country |
"I Wish That I Could Hurt That Way Again"
(written with Don Cook, Rafe Van Hoy)
Kenny Rogers | 1978 |
T. Graham Brown | 1986 | #3 country |
"I'll Be Coming Back for More"
(written with Sterling Whipple)
T. G. Sheppard | 1980 | #1 country |
"It Don't Feel Like Sinnin' to Me"
(written with Mike Kosser)
The Kendalls | 1978 | #2 country |
"It's a Cheating Situation"
(written with Sonny Throckmorton)
ACM Song of the Year
Moe Bandy | 1979 | #2 country |
John Prine & Dolores Keane | 1999 |
"Just for You"
(written with Larry Butler)
Ferlin Husky | 1967 | #4 country |
"Made for Lovin' You"
(written with Sonny Throckmorton)
Dan Seals | 1990 |
Doug Stone | 1993 | #6 country |
"My Elusive Dreams"
(written with Billy Sherrill)
Curly Putman | 1967 | #41 country |
Rusty Draper | 1967 | #70 country |
Johnny Darrell | 1967 | #73 country |
David Houston & Tammy Wynette | 1967 | #1 country, #89 pop |
Charlie Rich | 1975 | #3 country, #49 pop |
"Smooth Sailing"
(written with Sonny Throckmorton)
Connie Smith | 1978 | #68 country |
Sonny Throckmorton | 1979 | #47 country |
T. G. Sheppard | 1980 | #6 country |
"The Older the Violin, the Sweeter the Music"
Hank Thompson | 1974 | #8 country |
"War Is Hell (On the Home Front Too)"
(written with Bucky Jones, Dan Wilson)
T. G. Sheppard | 1982 | #1 country |
"When Can We Do This Again"
(written with Sonny Throckmorton)
T. G. Sheppard | 1978 | #5 country |