Robert Edwin Morrison (born August 6, 1942) is an American country songwriter based in Nashville.

He has a college degree in nuclear engineering and was a Hollywood film actor and a recording artist prior to becoming a full-time songwriter.

His songs have been recorded by artists in a variety of genres, including Reba McEntire, The Carpenters, Sammy Davis Jr., Dottie West, Barbara Mandrell, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Oak Ridge Boys and Bobby Goldsboro.

[1] Morrison received an athletic scholarship (track) to Mississippi State University where his squad won the SEC championship.

A self-taught guitarist, Morrison began playing in local bands at age 15 and later performed in clubs as a solo folk singer.

Morrison moved to Hollywood in 1967 and worked as a contract actor for Screen Gems and released an album on Capitol Records, entitled "Friends of Mine",[6] which included his original songs.

In 1973 Morrison moved to Nashville with some aspiration to be a recording artist; he released an album "Home Again" (Monument/MG7618) in the pop-rock genre without much success.

Two Gulfport, Mississippi school teachers, Patti Ryan and Wanda Mallette, had songwriting aspirations.

Morrison revised a couple of lyric lines that didn’t work, cut the bridge in half and changed the chorus melody of the song slightly.

[14] Despite the song initially being turned down more than 20 times, Morrison gave a cassette to a friend in Hollywood who dropped it off at Paramount Pictures.

[16] Other noted songs by Morrison are Gary Morris' "The Love She Found in Me", Conway Twitty's "Don't Call Him a Cowboy", and Highway 101's "Whiskey, If You Were a Woman".