Before he became Nashville's great piano man and an ASCAP Country Songwriter of the Year with 18 singles on the "Billboard" Country chart, Phil Vassar was a mullet-haired "Star Search" champion. His compatriots would probably give him a hard time for his geometrically-patterned-silver-shirt-and-jacket combo and decidedly '80s song choices (with lyrics like "My heart was the very last to know/you're the love that won't let go"). But Phil would become a music legend soon enough and go on to become a judge on country music's "Star Search" equivalent, "Nashville Star."