Todd Cerney
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Todd David Cerney |
| Born |
August 8, 1953 Detroit, Michigan, United States |
| Died | March 14, 2011 (aged 57) Nashville, Tennessee, United States |
| Genres | Rock, blues rock, country |
| Occupation(s) | Songwriter, musician |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, piano, mandolin, harmonica, bass guitar |
| Years active | 1974–2011 |
| Associated acts |
Kenny Rogers Levon Helm Dixie Chicks |
| Website | toddcerney |
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Mandolin Harmonica |
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Todd Cerney (August 8, 1953 – March 14, 2011) was an American songwriter and musician.
He composed "Good Morning Beautiful", a 2002 five-week country number one (Billboard) hit for Steve Holy (co-written with Zack Lyle); "The Blues Is My Business" (co-written with Kevin Bowe), part of Etta James' 2003 Grammy Award winning album "Let's Roll"; and "I'll Still Be Loving You", a 1987 country number one (Billboard) hit for Restless Heart (co-written with Pam Rose, Mary Ann Kennedy, and Pat Bunch). He and his co-writers were nominated for a Grammy Award for "I'll Still Be Loving You". The song won the 1988 award for "ASCAP Country Song of the Year".
Cerney was born in Detroit, Michigan, and graduated from Zanesville High School in Zanesville, Ohio in 1971. He began his song-writing career after moving to Nashville, where he initially worked at Buzz Cason's Creative Workshop as an audio engineer. Some of the earliest artists to record his songs include Steve Carlisle ("I'll Fall in Love Again") and Levon Helm ("Blue House of Broken Hearts").
Cerney became known as the "Rock Doctor" after co-writing songs with members of various bands including Cheap Trick, Eddie Money, Loverboy and Bad English. Popular artists to record his compositions include Aretha Franklin (with the Four Tops) "If Ever A Love There Was" (part of the soundtrack for the film "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" – the song hit the top 40 in both the R&B and Adult Contemporary charts (Billboard)), John Anderson's "Till I Get Used to the Pain" and Ty Herndon's "No Mercy", which peaked at #26 on the Billboard Country Music charts.
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