who wrote the song don't give up on me
Solomon Burke
title: Don't Give Up on Me text: Don't Give Up on Me Don't Give Up on Me is a studio album by R&B/Soul singer Solomon Burke, recorded and released in 2002 on Fat Possum Records. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album. It is noteworthy for the contributions of original and previously unreleased compositions by top-rank songwriters, the effect of which placed Burke back in the public eye for a time. Guest stars are Daniel Lanois, who plays electric guitar on "Stepchild", and The Blind Boys of Alabama, who feature on backing vocals for "None of Us Are Free". "None of Us Are title: Don't Give Up on Me text: Free" was also featured at the end of the sixth episode ("Spin") of the second season of "House". "Fast Train" was featured during the ending montage of the season three finale of "The Wire". The title track, written by the team of Dan Penn and Carson Whitsett with Hoy Lindsey, gained popularity (and introduced Burke to a new generation) when it was used several times on the popular primetime teen soap opera "The O.C." as one of the signature song of adult couple Sandy and Kirsten Cohen, played by Peter Gallagher and Kelly Rowan. It became a staple of Burke's title: Don't Give Up on Us (song) text: Don't Give Up on Us (song) "Don't Give Up on Us" is a song by American-British singer David Soul. Riding high on the success of playing in the hit TV show "Starsky and Hutch", Soul returned to one of his early career choices as a singer. His debut, the Tony Macaulay-written-and-produced "Don't Give Up on Us" was a worldwide smash, spending four weeks at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart in January and February 1977, and a single week at No. 1 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in April 1977. In addition, the song spent one week at No. title: Don't Give Up on Me text: live performances and has been covered by Joe Cocker, as well as Peter Gallagher, who also performed the song on "The O.C." Don't Give Up on Me Don't Give Up on Me is a studio album by R&B/Soul singer Solomon Burke, recorded and released in 2002 on Fat Possum Records. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album. It is noteworthy for the contributions of original and previously unreleased compositions by top-rank songwriters, the effect of which placed Burke back in the public eye for a time. Guest stars are Daniel Lanois, who plays electric guitar on title: Carson Whitsett text: title track to Solomon Burke's Grammy winning "comeback" album "Don't Give Up On Me", later covered by Joe Cocker and Susan Boyle. Actor Peter Gallagher performed the song on the hit TV show The O.C.. Other artists who recorded songs written or co-written by Carson Whitsett include Soul icons Etta James, Eddie Floyd, Johnny Adams, James Carr, Ruth Brown, and Wilson Pickett, as well as Country superstars Conway Twitty and Barbara Mandrell and Gospel greats Albertina Walker and The Staple Singers. He also played and wrote material for B.B. King, Jerry Butler, Suzy Bogguss, and Irma Thomas, among others. At