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Aaron Schroeder
American songwriter, music publisher
1926 – 2009aged 83
An American songwriter who wrote 17 songs for Elvis Presley, five of them number-one hits, including "Stuck on You," "Good Luck Charm" and "It's Now or Never," later ranked among Billboard's 100 greatest songs. Roy Orbison, Nat King Cole, Perry Como and Sammy Davis Jr. also recorded his work, and in the early 1960s he founded Musicor Records, discovering Gene Pitney and producing the Oscar-nominated "Town Without Pity." With his wife Abby he later helped launch the careers of Barry White, Randy Newman and Jimi Hendrix.