Tompall Glaser - wikipedia Tompall Glaser Not to be confused with Tom Glazer. Tompall Glaser Glaser in 1977 Background information Birth name Thomas Paul Glaser ( 1933 - 09 - 03 ) September 3, 1933 Spalding, Nebraska, U.S. August 12, 2013 ( 2013 - 08 - 12 ) ( aged 79 ) Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Genres Country outlaw country Occupation ( s ) Singer Instruments Vocals Years active 1950s -- 2013 Labels MGM / Curb, ABC, Dot / MCA, Bear Family, Clint Miller Associated acts Tompall & the Glaser Brothers Thomas Paul `` Tompall '' Glaser ( September 3, 1933 -- August 12, 2013 ) was an American outlaw country music artist. Glaser was born in Spalding, Nebraska, the son of Alice Harriet Marie ( née Davis ) and Louis Nicholas Glaser. He was raised on a farm. Since the 1950s, he recorded as a solo artist and with his brothers Chuck and Jim in the trio Tompall & the Glaser Brothers. Tompall Glaser 's highest - charting solo single was Shel Silverstein 's `` Put Another Log on the Fire '', which peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles ( now Hot Country Songs ) charts in 1975 and appeared with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Jessi Colter on the album Wanted ! The Outlaws. Glaser died August 13, 2013 in Nashville, Tennessee, aged 79, after a long illness. Contents 1 Solo discography 1.1 Albums 1.2 Singles 2 See also 3 References 4 External links Solo discography Albums Year Album US Country 1973 Charlie -- Take the Singer with the Song -- Tompall ( Sings the Songs of Shel Silverstein ) -- 1976 The Great Tompall and His Outlaw Band 13 1977 Tompall Glaser & His Outlaw Band 38 The Wonder of It All -- 1986 Nights on the Borderline -- The Rogue -- The Outlaw -- The Best of Tompall Glaser & the Glaser Brothers -- 2006 My Notorious Youth -- 2007 Outlaw to the Cross -- Singles Year Single Chart Positions Album US Country US Bubbling CAN Country 1973 `` Bad, Bad, Bad Cowboy '' 77 -- -- Charlie `` Texas Law Sez '' 96 -- -- Take the Singer with the Song `` Musical Chairs '' 63 -- -- Tompall ( Sings the Songs of Shel Silverstein ) `` Put Another Log on the Fire ( Male Chauvinist National Anthem ) '' 21 34 1976 `` T for Texas '' 36 -- -- Wanted ! The Outlaws 1977 `` It 'll Be Her '' 45 -- -- Tompall Glaser & and His Outlaw Band `` It Never Crossed My Mind '' 91 -- -- The Wonder of It All 1978 `` Drinking Them Beers '' 79 -- -- See also `` Streets of Baltimore '' References ^ Jump up to : Wolff, Kurt. `` Tompall Glaser biography ''. Allmusic. Retrieved 2008 - 04 - 01. Jump up ^ http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tennessean/obituary.aspx?pid=166478715 Jump up ^ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=116038275 Jump up ^ Associated Press. `` Tompall Glaser, an original Nashville outlaw, dies ''. Retrieved August 13, 2013. Jump up ^ `` Billboard charted singles '' ( PDF ). Mike Curb official website. Archived from the original ( PDF ) on 2008 - 03 - 08. Retrieved 2008 - 04 - 01. External links Tompall Glaser on IMDb VIAF : 22327337 LCCN : n94119188 ISNI : 0000 0000 5513 6221 GND : 13476336X BNF : cb138945303 ( data ) MusicBrainz : 0c72f4e1 - 30db - 41ef - b29e - 8c168c39665e Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tompall_Glaser&oldid=799103539 '' Categories : 1933 births American country singers American country singer - songwriters American male singers 2013 deaths Singers from Nebraska People from Spalding, Nebraska Disease - related deaths in Tennessee Songwriters from Nebraska Hidden categories : Articles with hCards Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Español Français Italiano Nederlands Polski Svenska Edit links This page was last edited on 5 September 2017, at 17 : 16. About Wikipedia

Question: who wrote the song put another log on the fire
Answer: Shel Silverstein