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Billy Myles
real name William Myles Nobles
Billy Myles is credited on 1,119 releases across 259 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1953–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,119
Credits
259
Albums
8
Decades active
408
In collections
Biography
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Billy Myles, an alias of William Myles Nobles (August 29, 1924 – October 9, 2005), was an American R&B songwriter and singer active in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known for writing "Tonight, Tonight" recorded by The Mello-Kings, "(You Were Made for) All My Love" recorded by Jackie Wilson (1960), and "Have You Ever Loved A Woman" recorded by Freddie King (1960), then Eric Clapton (1970).
Billy Myles specialised in love ballads (sometimes in the doo-wop style) and 'Uptown Blues' songs, occasionally co-writing with vocalists such as Jackie Wilson and Brook Benton.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
1,119 releases · 259 albums · active 1953–2025
- Performance · 1,184
- Production · 4
- Other credits · 1
Studios: Criteria Recording Studios · Fillmore East · I.B.C. Studios · Budokan
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
1970

461 Ocean Boulevard
1974

Blues Breakers
1966

Just One Night
1980

In Concert
1973

Johnny's Greatest Hits
1958

E.C. Was Here
1975

Layla Revisited (Live At Lockn')
2021

24 Nights
1991

Half Mile Harvest
2017

Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective
2013

Crossroads
1988

Lovehunter
1979

Clapton
1973

Backtrackin' (22 Tracks Spanning The Career Of A Rock Legend)
1984

One More Car, One More Rider (Live On Tour 2001)
2002

A Night In San Francisco
1994

Before The Beginning Vol 1: Live 1968
2019

Give Me Strength (The '74/'75 Studio Recordings)
2013

Blues
1999

Love Scenes
1997

Watermelon Man!
1963

24 Nights: Blues
2023

The First Generation 1965-1974
2021
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Eric Clapton
- Jackie Wilson
- Freddy King
- Gladys Knight And The Pips
- Hank Ballard And The Midnighters
- Johnny Mathis
- Freddie King
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