Career
His compositions included the Top 10 Billboard hits "Crumblin" Down" and "Hurts So Good" (the latter of which was an RPM Number 1 hit in Canada), as well as another Canadian Number. 1 hit in "Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)". “George Green was a superb lyricist who played an important role in moving John Mellencamp along the road to seriousness as a songwriter,” Anthony DeCurtis, a longtime music writer and contributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine, told the Bloomington Herald-Times.
John eventually internalized those gifts himself, and George provided a close-at-hand model for how that could happen." In 1985, Green"s wife appeared in the video for Mellencamp"s Top 10 hit "Lonely Ol" Night".
In addition to writing with Mellencamp, Green also wrote songs recorded by Barbra Streisand, Hall & Oates, Jude Cole, Vanessa Williams, Percy Sledge, and The Oak Ridge Boys among others Green died on August 28, 2011 in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the age of 59 after suffering from a rapid-forming small cell lung cancer.
