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Hit Songwriter Born in Augusta's old University Hospital, Archie Paul Jordan would grow up to write dozens of hit country, rock and gospel songs including It Was Almost Like A Song, Let's Take The Long Way Around The World, Drifter, It's All I Can Do, What A Difference You Made In My Life and Jesus Is Your Ticket To Heaven. It Was Almost Like A Song, which Mr. Jordan co-wrote with former ASCAP publishing company president Hal David, was heard in the Clint Eastwood movie, The Bridges of Madison County. The son of J.T. and Sarah Jordan of Aiken, S.C., spent eight years in Metter, Ga., where he acquired his first guitar, a Roy Rogers plastic model. He formed his first band, the Cobras, in Sumter, S.C. He obtained a degree in music from the University of South Carolina, spent three months traveling as the only white person in the black beach music group The Tams and also produced B.J. Thomas' Grammy Award winning gospel album. |
