Cecil Null most famous composition was "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know," a No. 1 hit in 1953 for the Davis Sisters. Null's longtime friend, journalist Bill Littleton, says Null was also the guiding force in uniting Chet Atkins and Merle Travis for their Grammy-winning 1974 album, The Atkins-Travis Traveling Show.

Cecil Allen Null was born April 26, 1927, in War, W.Va. He began writing songs and singing publicly while serving in the Navy during World War II. After leaving the service, he performed with various groups on radio stations in Bristol, Va. Null told interviewer Dorothy Horstman that he wrote "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know" in 1947. "It was turned down by nearly everybody in the business," he said. Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette covered the song on their 1993 album, Honky Tonk Angels.

His 1964 song, "Mother Maybelle," was inspired by Maybelle Carter, perhaps country music's foremost autoharpist. That same year, Null formed a recording duo with his wife, Annette. The Nulls also did one album for Decca, Instrumental Country Hymns, in 1968.