Mitch Murray The Hidden 70s Man Murray's first major songwriting success was "How Do You Do It?" It was picked up by producer G
He had further success throughout the next ten years, writing "You Were Made for Me" and "I'm Telling You Now" for Freddie and the Dreamers, the latter in collaboration with their frontman, Freddie Garrity; and "I Knew It All the Time" recorded in 1964 by The Dave Clark Five. Murray's 1964 book, How to Write a Hit Song, inspired Sting, then a 12-year-old schoolboy, to start writing songs. Sting now refers to Murray as "My Mentor", and wrote the foreword to Mitch Murray's Handbook for the Terrified Speaker (Valium in a Volume). Most of Murray's subsequent hits were written with Peter Callander, among them "Even the Bad Times are Good" (The Tremeloes), "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" (Georgie Fame),["Goodbye Sam, Hello Samantha" (Cliff Richard), ["Hitchin' a Ride" (Vanity Fare), "and "Avenues and Alleyways", "I Did What I Did for Maria" for Tony Christie.
