This includes my current bio and a discography of most of my published songs and operas.
Hugh Moffatt
The list of artists who have recorded Hugh Moffatt’s songs is international and multi-dimensional. They range from Patti Page to Jerry Lee Lewis to The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band to Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton, Alabama, and Johnny Cash and include pop, country, bluegrass, traditional, and gospel artists from around the world. These recordings include the chart-topping country singles “Just in Case” by Ronnie Milsap, “Old Flames Can’t Hold a Candle to You” by Dolly Parton, and “How Could I Love Her So Much” by Johnny Rodriguez, and the Southern Gospel hit “Roll Away the Stone” by Wendy Bagwell and the Sunlighters.
As a performing artist, Moffatt has released nine albums and toured extensively around the world. His albums are LOVING YOU, TROUBADOUR and DANCE ME OUTSIDE (duets with Katy Moffatt) for Rounder Records, THE LIFE OF A MINOR POET for Watermelon Records, LIVE AND ALONE for Brambus Records in Switzerland, THE WOGNUM SESSIONS (The Hugh Moffatt Trio) for Strictly Country Records in the Netherlands, GHOSTS OF THE MUSIC for Brambus, and SONGS FROM THE BACK OF THE CHURCH on Sohl Recordings. Sony Australia also released a 17-song compilation from his first two albums under the title, THE WAY LOVE IS.
He is, with composer Michael Ching, the librettist for two one-act operas and one full-length opera. The one-acts are KING OF THE CLOUDS, commissioned and premiered by Dayton Opera in 1993, and OUT OF THE RAIN, commissioned jointly by Opera Delaware, the Kansas City Lyric Opera and Opera Memphis and premiered by Opera Delaware in 1998. These operas have each had multiple productions and continue to attract new audiences.
Moffatt and Ching’s first full-length opera, Corps Of Discovery, A Musical Journey, commissioned by the University of Missouri and based on the Lewis & Clark expedition, premiered in May of 2003 in Columbia, Missouri. Opera Memphis produced the professional premier in April of 2004, and the University of Idaho presented the Northwest premier in the fall of 2005. The Fargo Opera toured their own production throughout North Dakota in May of 2007.
In early 2010 Opera Memphis presented the first performances of Gluck’s classic opera, Orpheus and Euridice, with a new English translation by Moffatt and Ching.
Whatever the medium, Hugh Moffatt continues to put music and words together to create works of beauty and genuine emotional impact.
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HUGH MOFFATT/DISCOGRAPHY
self-recorded
ALBUM TITLE, LABEL & CATALOGUE #, RELEASE DATE
LOVING YOU, Rounder/Philo PH1111, 1987
TROUBADOUR, Rounder/Philo PH1127, 1989
LIVE AND ALONE, Brambus 199118-2 (Switzerland), 1991
THE WAY LOVE IS (partial compilation of LOVING YOU and TROUBADOUR), Columbia 48965 2 (Australia), 1991
DANCE ME OUTSIDE (duets with Katy Moffatt), Rounder/Philo PH1144, 1992
THE WOGNUM SESSIONS (Hugh Moffatt Trio), Strictly Country SCR-32 (Holland), 1992
THE LIFE OF A MINOR POET, Watermelon 1047, 1996
GHOSTS OF THE MUSIC, Brambus 199810-2 (Switzerland), 1998
SONGS FROM THE BACK OF THE CHURCH, Sohl 0001, 2006
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OPERA
(Hugh Moffatt librettist, Michael Ching librettist/composer)
TITLE, COMMISSIONING PARTIES, PREMIER DATE
KING OF THE CLOUDS (one act) Dayton Opera, 1993
OUT OF THE RAIN (one act), OperaDelaware/ The Lyric Opera of Kansas City/ Opera Memphis, 1998
CORPS OF DISCOVERY (full length) , Show Me Opera (U of Missouri), 2003
Orpheus and Euridice (Gluck) (new English translation), Opera Memphis, 2010
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HUGH MOFFATT/DISCOGRAPHY
songs recorded by others
*released as single
SONG TITLE, ARTIST, (CO-WRITERS), RELEASE DATE
JUST IN CASE*, Ronnie Milsap, 1975
JUST IN CASE, Barbara Mandrell, 1976
JUST IN CASE, Tammy Wynette, 1976
HERE'S TO THE HORSES*, Mack Vickery, (R Bourke/G Dobbins), 1976
THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO KNOW*, Dottie West, (Ed Penney), 1977
WHILE I'M HERE, Randi Gurley, (Ed Penney), 1977
WHY SHOULD I CRY OVER YOU, George Hamilton IV, (Ed Penney), 1977
OLD FLAMES CAN'T HOLD A CANDLE TO YOU*, Joe Sun, (Pebe Sebert) 1978
MAMA RITA*, Alan Wayne, 1979
LOVE GAME, Jerry Lee Lewis, 1979
OLD FLAMES CAN'T HOLD A CANDLE TO YOU*, Dolly Parton, (Pebe Sebert), 1980
LOVE AND ONLY LOVE, Frizzell & West, 1980
LOVE AND ONLY LOVE*, Carl Hickman, 1980
HERE'S TO THE HORSES*, Johnny Russell, (R Bourke/G Dobbins), 1981
HERE'S TO THE HORSES, The Rovers, (R Bourke/G Dobbins), 1981
WILD TURKEY*, Lacy J. Dalton, (Pebe Sebert), 1981
EVERY NOW AND THEN, Terri Gibbs, 1981
WHISKEY MADE ME STUMBLE*, Bill Anderson, 1981
TAKING A WALK IN THE SUN, Jeannie C. Riley, 1981
WASN'T IT GOOD*, Patti Page, 1981
LOVE AND ONLY LOVE, Conway Twitty, 1982
SLOW MOVIN' FREIGHT TRAIN, Joe Sun, 1982
SLOW MOVIN' FREIGHT TRAIN, John Starling, 1982
CAROLINA STAR, John Starling, 1982
CAROLINA STAR, Earl Scruggs & Friends, 1982
WORDS AT TWENTY PACES, Alabama, 1982
PRAISE THE LORD AND SEND ME THE MONEY*, Bobby Bare, 1982
WHEN YOU HELD ME IN YOUR ARMS, Mel McDaniel, 1982
HOW COULD I LOVE HER SO MUCH*, Johnny Rodriguez, 1983
TILL THE FIRE'S BURNED OUT, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, 1984
ROSE OF MY HEART*, Johnny Rodriguez, 1984
STILL ONE BROKEN HEART David Frizzell, 1984
ROSE OF MY HEART, The Witstein Brothers, 1985
OLD FLAMES CAN'T HOLD A CANDLE TO YOU, Merle Haggard, (Pebe Sebert) 1985
WHEN YOU HELD ME IN YOUR ARMS*, Rex Allen, Jr. 1985
ROSE OF MY HEART, Nicolette Larsen, 1986
LAST NIGHT I DREAMED OF LOVING YOU, Nashville Bluegrass Band, 1986
LOVING YOU, The McCarters, 1987
PAPACITA, Katy Moffatt, 1987
I KNOW THE DIFFERENCE NOW, Katy Moffatt, 1987
HARD TIMES ON EASY STREET, Katy Moffatt, 1987
PAPACITA, The McCarters, 1988
TILL THE MORNING COMES, Steinar Albrightsen, (Jonas Fjeld) 1990
ROLL AWAY THE STONE*, Wendy Bagwell, 1992
LAST NIGHT I DREAMED OF LOVING YOU, Kathy Mattea, 1992
STILL ONE BROKEN HEART, Steinar Albrightsen, 1994
SLOW MOVING FREIGHT TRAIN, Katy Moffatt, 1997
JACK AND LUCY, Bill Grant and Delia Bell, 1997
ROSE OF MY HEART, IIIrd Tyme Out, 1999
WHISKEY, MONEY AND TIME, Katy Moffatt, 1999
JACK AND LUCY, Jeannie Kendell, 2003
ROSE OF MY HEART, McReynolds and Whitstein, 2006
ROSE OF MY HEART, Johnny Cash, 2006
FALL RIVER, Jonas Fjeld/Chatham County Line, (Jonas Fjeld) 2009
LST NIGHT I DREAMED
OF LOVING YOU, MilkDrive, 2011