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Buzz Cason
12+ albums
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Buzz Cason (born James E. Cason in Nashville, TN, on 27 November 1939; died 16 June 2024) was an American rock singer, songwriter and record producer remembered as the co-writer of the song "Everlasting Love", recorded by a number of artists and a 1968 UK hit for the band Love Affair. Cason was a founding member of The Casuals, Nashville's first rock and roll band. Together with Richard Williams and Hugh Jarrett of The Jordanaires he recorded as The Statues for Liberty. In 1960, Cason started a solo career under the pseudonym Garry Miles. Beginning in 1965, Cason began issuing music under his own name. His biggest hit as a writer, with Mac Gayden, was the song "Everlasting Love". Recorded originally by American Robert Knight, the UK’s Love Affair cover version was a number one hit there in January 1968. Carl Carlton's version was a number 6 hit in the US in 1974. In 1968 the Australian band The Town Criers took their version of the song to #2 in that country’s charts. "Everlasting Love" is one of two songs to have entered the US Billboard Hot 100 top 40 in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s and is the only song to have become a UK top 40 hit in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, reaching the top 20 in every decade except the 1980s. From the mid-1980s, Cason had his own rockabilly-styled group, 'B.C. & the Dartz' who released some albums. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
