Vic McAlpin

"Simplicity is a way of life and that's what I have tried to keep in my songs. You can't fool the public. They like simplicity."

 

Birth Name: Vernice Johnson McAlpin
Induction Year: 1970
Place of Birth: Defeated Creek, TN
Date of Death: 1/19/1980
Place of Death: Nashville,TN

Former Occupations:
furniture salesman

Career Milestones:

age 10--moved to Nashville with his family

1945--first cuts with Eddy Arnold "What is Life Without Love" and "To My Sorrow" (re-recorded in 1969 with Ed Ames)

Catalog Highlights

  • Co-writer: Jack Toombs

  • Artists: George Morgan (1952), Sonny James, Don Gibson, Faron Young, Sons of the Pioneers

God Walks These Hills With Me

  • Co-writer: Hughes

  • Artists: Red Foley

Home of the Blues

  • Co-writer: Johnny Cash, G. Douglas

  • Artists: Johnny Cash, Dwight Yoakam

I'm In Love Again

  • Co-writer: George Morgan

  • Artists: George Morgan

What is Life Without Love

  • Co-writer: Eddy Arnold, Owen Bradley

  • Artists: Eddy Arnold (1947)

Plastic Saddle

  • Artists: Nat Stuckey

Jackson Ain't a Very Big Town

  • Artists: Norma Jean, Johnny Duncan & June Stearns

What Locks the Door

  • Artists: Jack Greene

To My Sorrow

  • Artists: Eddy Arnold, Johnny Duncan

How's My Ex Treating You

  • Artists: Jerry Lee Lewis, Mickey Gilley

Another

     

  • Co-writer: Roy Drusky
  • Artists: Roy Drusky (1960)

 

Anymore

     

  • Co-writer: Roy Drusky, Marie Wilson
  • Artists: Roy Drusky (1960)

 

Before This Day Ends

     

  • Co-writer: Roy Drusky, Marie Wilson
  • Artists: George Hamilton IV (1960), Eddy Arnold (1961)

 

All Alone In This World Without You

  • Co-writer: Owen Bradley, Betty Wade

  • Artists: Eddy Arnold (1946)

Comments:

Served on the first CMA board of directors

Co-wrote the non-fiction book "From Defeated Creek to Music City, U.S.A." (released in 1980) with Tom C. Armstrong and Beverly Beard

Co-founder of Allmac Music (with Joe Allison), one of Nashville's earliest music publishing companies