Mike Craver
Mike Craver is an American composer and lyricist. He was born in North Carolina. Biography. Mike Craver graduated from the University of North Carolina. He was also, for 12 years, a member of the band, Red Clay Ramblers. He has appeared in Sam Shepard's "A Lie of the Mind". He has toured, with the Ramblers, all over the US, Canada, Scandinavia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He became a theatre composer and composed several off-Broadway musicals such as "Oil City Symphony" (1986), "Smoke on the Mountain" (1990) and "Radio Gals" (1995). He has composed different  solo pieces for voice. In 2002, Craver released a solo album, "Shining Down", featuring songs he composed and including "Watson, come here I want you", a humorous song based on the first words transmitted by telephone by Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas A. Watson.