from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas; he earned a master's degree the following year and taught English there.

King, Joe Sample, Rodney Crowell, Mariah Carey, Jimmy Buffett, Barry Manilow, and Roy Orbison.

[12][13][14] In Nashville he worked with other composers, and his first big hit came when Manilow took his joint composition with Richard Kerr, "Looks Like We Made It", to number 1 in 1977.

In 1997, Jennings wrote the world-wide number one Céline Dion hit "My Heart Will Go On" for the film Titanic with his collaborator James Horner.

[23] Titanic's director, James Cameron, had at first been opposed to having a theme song playing over the closing credits, but Horner, having composed the instrumental motif, felt that it needed words and secretly had Jennings write a lyric.

The album featured six songs written by Jennings and Wolf, who collaborated previously on Fool's Parade (1999) on Mercury Records.

[28] Jennings and Joe Sample, the keyboard player for the Crusaders, went back to 1978 and began by writing the Midnight Believer album for B.B.

In the film "One Day I'll Fly Away" was sung by Nicole Kidman and, in March 2002, was released as a single in the UK from the second soundtrack album to emerge from Moulin Rouge.