Bill King has been composing music since he was 16 years old. The earliest songs were recorded by the Shadows a local jazz/rock band from Kentucky in 1965 and a tune called '7 Come Eleven'. Since then he's written for the band Homestead, Two recordings for Capitol records - Goodbye Superdad and Dixie Peach - 1971 and 1973 - the movie Outrageous - Before & After Dark in Atlanta - 'Nothing Gonna Take You Away ' for Chaka Khan's 'Naughty' album - East Side Symphony of which selections were used for the hit television series Queer is Folk - film, television and beyond. Two of King's orginals - Magnolia Nights and Amerasia were a hit with the first cycle of WAVE radio in the United States in the late eighties - early nineteen nineties. King has also produced several well-received instrumentals for the rhythm and blues unit the Saturday Nite Fish Fry. King continues to write for his instrumental jazz band The Rhythm Express.