Overview
- Walt Aldridge died Wednesday at age 70, according to FAME Recording Studios, which did not share a cause of death.
- He spent 17 years at FAME in Muscle Shoals, where leaders said his songwriting helped sustain the studio during a slow period in the 1980s.
- He wrote or co-wrote 56 top-40 Billboard country songs, according to Country Insider.
- His No. 1 credits include Ronnie Milsap’s “(There’s) No Gettin’ Over Me,” Earl Thomas Conley’s “Holding Her and Loving You,” Travis Tritt’s “Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde,” and Heartland’s “I Loved Her First.”
- He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2017 and the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 2018, with Country Insider reporting his work contributed to an estimated 60 million album sales.