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Buzz Cason Dies: Songwriter Of Pop Classic ‘Everlasting Love’ Was 84
The buoyant Motown-style pop song has been covered numerous times and appeared in many films since Robert Knight released the original in 1967.
Buzz Cason, the Nashville singer, songwriter and producer best known for “Everlasting Love,” the buoyant Motown-style pop song covered numerous times and appearing in many films since Robert Knight recorded the original in 1967, died June 16 at his home in Franklin, Tennessee. Other artists who have covered the song, written by Cason with writing partner Mac Gayden, include Gloria Estefan, Rex Smith and Rachel Sweet , U2, German singer Sandra, Australian pop group Town Criers, UK boy band Worlds Apart and even the cast of the BBC series Casualty, who recorded a Top 5 version for charity in 1998. The song has also found its way onto various movie and TV shows, including a memorable 1994 episode of daytime soap The Bold and The Beautiful, in which cast members Bobbie Eakes and Jeff Trachta performed a duet as part of a concert storyline.
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