Billy Swan

Person · Open Library

Works

3

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1942-05-12

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

156,671

Total plays

735,282

Billy Swan (born Billy Lance Swan, 12 May 1942, Cape Girardeau, Missouri) is an American songwriter and singer, best known for his 1974 single, "I Can Help". Swan's role in the music industry was, originally, largely invisible. His first big break was in 1962 when Clyde McPhatter recorded "Lover Please", a song written by Swan that quickly became a Top Ten hit. Moving to Nashville allowed Swan to write hit country songs for numerous artists, including Conway Twitty, Waylon Jennings, and Mel Til

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. NIA‐AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer's disease

   · 2018 · cited 9,283x

2. Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in <i>Phenix</i>

   · 2019 · cited 7,248x

3. The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues

   · 2020 · cited 5,062x

4. Real-space refinement in <i>PHENIX</i> for cryo-EM and crystallography

   · 2018 · cited 3,607x

5. A new method which gives an objective measure of colonization of roots by vesicular—arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

   · 1990 · cited 3,144x

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Wikidata facts

Number of children

2

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