Biography

Winfield Scott was born in New York City. He was initially a singer/songwriter. Early in his career he was known as Robbie Kirk of the singing group 'The Cues". In 1954 he worked with record producer Art Ertegun of Atlantic Records, where he met LaVern Baker. He wrote "Tweedlee Dee" in 1954 for Ms Baker which became a #4 R'n'B and #14 Pop hit for her. It was one of the first "crossover hits". As often the case at that time, Georgia Gibbs' cover version of "Tweedlee Dee" received a majority of the airplay on some stations. Winfield often collaborated with Otis Blackwell who introduced him to Elvis Presley. He wrote the "super hits" "Return To Sender", "Devil In Disguise" and "One Broken Heart For Sale", as well as several other songs used in Elvis' films. Most recently "I'm A Roustabout", written by Winfield and deleted from Roustabout (1964), has surfaced and has been released on an Elvis Compilation CD.
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An acclaimed R'n'B and Pop songwriter whose worldwide multimillion selling hits include "Tweedlee Dee" (recorded by LaVern Baker in 1955), "Return To Sender" (1962) and "Devil In Disguise" (1963) (the latter two were million selling hits for Elvis Presley).

In 2003, a previously unreleased recording by Elvis Presley, "I'm a Roustabout", written by Winfield Scott and not used in Roustabout (1964), surfaced and received critical acclaim. In 2006, it was added by RCA/BMG Records to the "Elvis 2nd To None" CD collection.

He is not to be confused with long time Elvis Presley guitarist (Winfield) Scotty Moore.

[on Elvis Presley] Everybody should look at everything he's ever done.