Country Artist Dennis Yost

Dennis Yost was part of the group Classic IV. The group was discovered performing at the Purple Porpoise in Daytona Beach by talent manager Alan Diggs, who was affiliated with the Lowery organization in Atlanta. Songwriter Buddy Buie was brought aboard as the group’s co-manager and producer. The pair encouraged the band to relocate to Atlanta, where the band landed a deal with Capitol Records with the help of producer Bill Lowery.

The group released its debut single, “Pollyanna”, written by Lowery songwriter Joe South.
In 1967, The group landed a deal with Imperial Records. Throughout the next few years, the group released four albums and a slew of Top 40 hits, including “Spooky”, “Stormy”, and “Traces”.

By 1970, as Yost was the remaining original member in the group, it changed its name to Dennis Yost and the Classics IV. After Imperial was absorbed into United Artists Records, the group signed with MGM South. The band’s subsequent releases were less successful, despite their final Top 40 hit “What Am I Crying For”, which peaked at No. 39 in 1972.

Jerry Chesnut – Born and raised in Harlan County, Kentucky, Jerry Chesnut moved to Nashville in 1958 to pursue his career. In 1967, Del Reeves recorded Chesnut’s “A Dime at a Time” to give the songwriter his first chart hit single. In 1968, Jerry Lee Lewis’s hit recording of Chesnut’s “Another Place, Another Time” was nominated for a Grammy Award. In 1972, Chesnut was named Billboard’s ‘Songwriter of the Year’, and in 1992 he became a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

His hits include “Good Year for the Roses” (recorded by Alan Jackson, George Jones and Elvis Costello) and “T-R-O-U-B-L-E” (recorded by Elvis Presley in 1975, and Travis Tritt in 1992.)