Bob McDill
Musician · b. 1944 · Beaumont, Texas
Best known for
Songwriter
Bob McDill is a Texas-born Nashville songwriter who wrote thirty-one No. 1 country singles between his 1970 arrival in Music Row and his retirement in 2000 — among them “Amanda,” “Good Ole Boys Like Me,” “Song of the South,” and a long string of Don Williams hits. The Country Music Hall of Fame inducted him in 2023.
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- Born April 5, 1944, near Beaumont, Texas.
- Moved to Nashville in 1970 and built a forty-year career writing for the Hall & Connors and PolyGram publishing catalogs.
- Wrote thirty-one No. 1 country singles over his career.
- Wrote “Amanda” in roughly half an hour; Don Williams cut it first in 1973, and Waylon Jennings’s 1979 RCA version reached No. 1 country.
- Wrote “Good Ole Boys Like Me” for Don Williams (1980), threading in Uncle Remus, WLAC’s John R., and Thomas Wolfe.
- Long-running partnership with Don Williams produced No. 1 country hits including “It Must Be Love,” “Say It Again,” “Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good,” and “(Turn Out the Light and) Love Me Tonight.”
- Wrote “Song of the South,” a No. 1 country hit for Alabama in 1989.
- Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1985 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2023.