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Nashville soul singer Robert Knight has passed away at age 72. In 1967, he recorded the first version of the pop evergreen “Everlasting Love.” Written by Music City’s Buzz Cason and Mac Gayden, the song has since been recorded by hundreds, including Love Affair (1969), David Ruffin (1969), Carl Carlton (1974), Narvel Felts (1979), Louise Mandrell (1979), Rex Smith & Rachel Sweet (1981), U2 (1989), Gloria Estefan (1995) and David Essex (1995). “Everlasting Love” also served as the title tune of Robert Knight’s debut LP. It was issued on Cason’s Rising Sons label, distributed by Monument Records. Cason and Gayden produced and arranged it. Robert Knight was born Robert Peebles in Franklin, TN in 1945. Raised by his grandparents, he was singing professionally by the time he was a teenager.

He became a member of The Paramounts, who recorded for Dot Records in the early 1960s. At this point, DJ and music entrepreneur Noel Ball suggested he change his last name to Knight. He was in the Nashville R&B group The Fairlanes when Mac Gayden heard him singing at the Kappa Sigma House on the Vanderbilt University campus and recruited him to record the songs that he and Cason were writing. “Everlasting Love” became a hit on both pop and r&b charts. Knight followed it with the Cason/Gayden song “Blessed Are the Lonely” in 1968. Ray Stevens provided Knight’s 1968 single “Isn’t It Lonely Together.” He returned to the Cason/Gayden catalog for “Love on a Mountain Top” in 1970.

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Knight took his hits to the Apollo Theater in Harlem. He traveled with soul star Joe Tex for six months and became Aretha Franklin’s opening act on a European concert tour. In the 1980s, “Everlasting Love” was revived to became a favorite on the “Beach Music” scene in the Carolinas.

But Robert Knight eventually drifted away from music. He worked at Vanderbilt as a lab technician and on the grounds crew. In 2004, the Country Music Hall of Fame opened its acclaimed exhibit “Night Train to Nashville,” and Knight enjoyed a new moment in the spotlight. “Everlasting Love” was included on the show’s accompanying CD, which won a Grammy Award. In recent years, Robert Knight had been suffering from emphysema and a blood disorder. He passed away on Sunday, Nov. Funeral arrangements have not been announced.

COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME® AND MUSEUM TO CLOSE MAJOR EXHIBITION DYLAN, CASH, AND THE NASHVILLE CATS: A NEW MUSIC CITY FEBRUARY 18 Closing Programs to Include Appearances by Nashville Cats Mac Gayden and Norbert Putnam January 5, 2018 NASHVILLE, Tenn., – Jan. 5, 2018 – The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum’s critically acclaimed exhibition Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City, will close on February 18. To celebrate the exhibit’s three year run, the museum will present three weekends of special programs including appearances by Nashville Cats Mac Gayden on Feb. 11 and Norbert Putnam on Feb. Closing programs in support of Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats include: Sunday, February 4 10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m. Film Screening: Old Crow Medicine Show Plays Blonde on Blonde (2017) 1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Musician Spotlight: Pete Finney: Pedal Steel Saturday, February 10 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.

Family Program: Design an Album Cover – Nashville Cats Style Sunday, February 11 1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Musician Spotlight: Mac Gayden: Guitar Sunday, February 18 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Creative Zone: Embellished Instruments: Nashville Cats Style 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Film Screening: The Johnny Cash Show: New Nashville Sounds (1971) 1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Musician Spotlight: Norbert Putnam: Bass Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats examines the Nashville music scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Bob Dylan bucked executives at his record label and surprised fans when he came to Nashville in 1966 to record his classic album Blonde on Blonde. Working with the city’s unmatched session musicians, Dylan produced a rock & roll masterpiece and went on to record two more albums there. Dylan’s embrace of Nashville and its musicians—the Nashville Cats—inspired many other artists, among them Neil Young, Joan Baez, Paul McCartney and Leonard Cohen, to follow him to Music City. Around the same time, Johnny Cash was recruiting folk and rock musicians—including Dylan—to appear on his groundbreaking network television show, The Johnny Cash Show, shot at the Ryman Auditorium. Co-curated by the museum’s curatorial team and guest curator Pete Finney, the exhibition explores this unique period in Music City’s history through dozens of artifacts and an array of audiovisual treasures.

For more information about the exhibition and upcoming programs, visit.