“Miami, My Amy” was written by legendary Nashville songwriters Dean Dillon, Hank Cochran and Royce Porter, and according to Cochran, the song was inspired by a real-life romance. He told American Songwriter that he and Dillon watched a similar love story unfold while they were on his boat in Palm Beach, Florida. That real-life love story happened between Cochran’s son and a woman named Amy.
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“My son came to see us,” Cochran shared. “My wife introduced my son, Donny, to a good-looking young woman. Donny had to go back to California. He asked if he should stay with that girl. I told him I didn’t know. I could look at him and see myself at that young age. Her name was Amy.”
After seeing the way his son fell for Amy, the title, “Miami, My Amy,” simply popped in his mind. He mentioned the song to Dillon and they wrote it right away.