He began working for Tree Publishing as a staff songwriter.

By 1951 he was producer, talent scout, session musician and staff songwriter.

The majority of staff songwriters in Nashville earn about $300 a week, he explained.

The two were brought to the Disney studio in Burbank where they eventually became the first staff songwriters for the company.

The company has a roster of five staff songwriters.

He started as a staff songwriter for Curb Records.

Wolf then signed as a staff songwriter with Warner/Chappell Music.

In the late 1960s, the Stover brothers signed on to Motown as staff songwriters.

For a period in the 1960s Clinton was a staff songwriter for Motown.

He began in the record business as a staff songwriter for the music publishing firm of Robert Mellin Inc.