Bruce Burch on Clubhouse

Bio

Bruce Burch has had success in many facets of the music business including being a hit songwriter, operating his own publishing companies of hit songs, working for a major music publishing company, as well as being an artist manager.
As a songwriter, Burch cowrote two #1 singles for Reba McEntire, “Rumor Has It” and “It’s Your Call”. These two songs were also the album titles for two of Reba’s most successful albums. Burch also cowrote songs on two other Reba albums, all of which have gone multi-platinum, selling well over 15 million records and CDs. He has also had top 10 songs on Billy Joe Royal (“Out Of Sight and On My Mind”), and T. Graham Brown (“The Last Resort”), a Top 20 song “Train Of Thought” recorded by Barbara Mandrell, and a Top 40 single “You Can’t Keep A Good Memory Down recorded by John Anderson. Burch co-wrote the classic T Graham Brown song “Wine Into Water”
Artists as diverse as Wayne Newton, Cledus T. Judd, Tommy Roe, and Slim Pickens recorded Burch’s songs. He discovered, co-managed, and masterminded the beginning of Cledus T. Judd’s comedy career.
Burch served as Creative Director at EMI Music Publishing, at the time the world’s largest music publisher with over a million songs in it’s vast catalog.
Burch also authored a book “Songs That Changed Our Lives”. Two chapters of this inspiring book were picked to be included in the “Chicken Soup For The Soul” series of books.
Burch founded and directed the University of Georgia Music Business Program and the Joel A. Katz Music and Entertainment Business Program at Kennesaw State University.