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Songwriters Hall of Fame
- Katherine Lee Bates[?]
- William Beckett[?]
- William Billings
- James Bland[?], "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny"
- Daniel Decatur Emmet[?], minstrel show entrepreneur, credited with "Dixie", "Turkey in the Straw"
- Stephen Foster, "Camptown Races", "I Dream of Jeannie",
- Patrick S. Gilmore[?]
- Julia Ward Howe, "Battle Hymn of the Republic[?]"
- Francis Scott Key, "Star Spangled Banner", lyrics
- John Howard Payne[?]. "Home Sweet Home"
- J.S. Pierpont[?]
- Eben E. Rexford[?]
- Thomas D. Rice, "Jump Jim Crow" (not in Songwriters Hall of Fame)
- George F. Root[?]
- Samuel Francis Smith[?]
- Samuel A. Ward[?]
- Septimus Winner[?], "Listen to the Mockingbird", "Ten Little Indians"
- Henry C. Work[?]
- Harold Adamson[?]
- Milton Ager[?]
- Fred Ahlert[?]
- Harry Akst[?]
- Louis Alter[?]
- Harold Arlen[?]
- Ernest Ball[?]
- Bennie Benjamin[?]
- Irving Berlin, "White Christmas"
- Leonard Bernstein
- Ralph Blane[?]
- Rube Bloom[?]
- Jerry Bock[?]
- Leslie Bricusse[?]
- James Brockman[?]
- Lew Brown
- Nacio Herb Brown[?]
- Alfred Bryan
- Joe Burke[?]
- Johnny Burke[?]
- Irving Caesar[?]
- Sammy Cahn[?]
- Anne Caldwell
- Hoagy Carmichael
- Harry Carroll[?]
- Saul Chaplin[?]
- Sidney Clare[?]
- Will D. Cobb[?]
- George M. Cohan, "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy"
- J. Fred Coots[?]
- Sam Coslow[?]
- Noel Coward
- Hart P. Danks[?]
- Mack David[?]
- Benny Davis[?]
- Reginald De Koven[?]
- Eddie De Lange[?]
- Gene De Paul[?]
- Peter De Rose[?]
- B.G. De Sylva
- Howard Dietz[?]
- Mort Dixon[?]
- Walter Donaldson
- Ervin Drake[?]
- Paul Dresser[?]
- Dave Dreyer[?]
- Al Dubin[?]
- Vernon Duke[?], composed classical music as Vladimir Dukelsky[?]
- Fred Ebb
- Gus Edwards[?]
- Raymond B. Egan[?]
- Edward Eliscu[?]
- Duke Ellington, "Mood Indigo", "Take the 'A' Train"
- Ray Evans[?]
- Sammy Fain[?]
- Dorothy Fields[?]
- Ted Fiorito[?]
- Fred Fischer[?]
- Arthur Freed
- Rudolf Friml[?]
- George Gershwin
- Ira Gershwin
- L. Wolfe Gilbert[?]
- Haven Gillespie[?]
- Mack Gordon[?]
- Adolph Green
- Bud Green[?]
- John Green[?]
- Ferde Grofe
- Woody Guthrie
- Oscar Hammerstein II
- Lou Handman[?]
- W.C. Handy, "Memphis Blues"
- James F. Hanley[?]
- Otto Harbach
- E.Y. Harburg
- Charles K. Harris[?]
- Lorenz Hart
- Ray Henderson
- Victor Herbert
- Edward Heyman[?]
- Billy Hill[?]
- All Hoffman[?]
- Joe Howard[?]
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond[?]
- Gordon Jenkins[?]
- Howard Johnson[?]
- James P. Johnson, "Charleston", "You've Got to be Modernistic"
- James W. Johnson[?]
- Arthur Johnston[?]
- Isham Jones[?]
- Scott Joplin, "The Entertainer", "Maple Leaf Rag"
- Bert Kaempfert[?]
- Irving Kahal[?]
- Gus Kahn[?]
- Bert Kalmar[?]
- John Kander
- Jimmy Kennedy[?]
- Jerome Kern
- Ted Koehler[?]
- Burton Lane[?]
- Jack Lawrence[?]
- Ernesto Lecuona[?]
- Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter), "Midnight Special"
- Alan Jay Lerner
- Edgar Leslie[?]
- Sam Lewis[?]
- Jay Livingston[?]
- Jerry Livingston[?]
- Frank Loesser
- Frank Loewe[?]
- Ballard MacDonald[?]
- Edward Madden[?]
- Herb Magidson[?]
- Henry Mancini
- Johnny Marks[?]
- Hugh Martin[?]
- Joseph McCarthy
- Jimmy McHugh[?]
- Johnny Mercer
- George W. Meyer[?]
- Joseph Meyer[?]
- Jimmy Monaco[?]
- Neil Moret[?]
- Theodore Morse[?]
- Lewis F. Muir[?]
- Ethelbert Nevin[?]
- Anthony Newley[?]
- Ray Noble[?]
- Jack Norworth[?]
- Chauncey Olcott[?]
- Mitchell Parish
- Maceo Pinkard[?]
- Cole Porter, "I Get a Kick Out of You", "Anything Goes"
- Ralph Rainger[?]
- Don Raye[?]
- Herb Rehbein[?]
- Harry Revel[?]
- Leo Robin[?]
- Jimmie Rodgers
- Richard Rodgers
- Harold Rome[?]
- Billy Rose[?]
- Fred Rose[?]
- Vincent Rose[?]
- Harry Ruby[?]
- Bob Russell[?]
- Arthur Schwartz[?]
- Jean Schwartz
- Pete Seeger
- Carl Sigman[?]
- Harry B. Smith[?]
- Ted Snyder[?]
- John Philip Sousa, "Stars and Stripes Forever"
- Max Steiner
- Andrew B. Sterling[?]
- Al Stillman[?]
- Larry Stock[?]
- Billy Strayhorn[?]
- Jule Styne
- Harry A. Tierney[?]
- Charles Tobias[?]
- Roy Turk[?]
- Egbert Van Alstyne[?]
- Jimmy Van Heusen[?]
- Albert Von Tilzer
- Harry Von Tilzer
- Fats Waller with Andy Razaf, "I Can't Give You Anything but Love", "Your Feet's Too Big"
- Harry Warren[?]
- Ted Washington[?]
- Mabel Wayne[?]
- Paul Francis Webster[?]
- Kurt Weill, "September Song", "Mack the Knife" (with Bertolt Brecht)
- George David Weiss[?]
- Percy Wenrich[?]
- Richard Whiting[?]
- Alec Wilder[?]
- Clarence Williams
- Hank Williams Sr., "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive", "Your Cheating Heart"
- Spencer Williams
- Meredith Willson[?], "76 Trombones" and other songs from The Music Man
- Harry M. Woods[?]
- Allie Wrubel[?]
- Jack Yellen[?]
- Vincent Youmans[?]
- Joe Young[?]
- Rida Johnson Young[?]
- Victor Young[?]
- Richard Adams
- Lee Adler[?]
- Paul Anka, "Lonely Boy"
- Nickolas Ashford[?]
- Charles Aznavour
- Burt Bacharach & Hal David[?] (wrote most hits for Dionne Warwick), "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?", "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", "I'll Never Fall in Love Again", "That's What Friends Are For"
- Jeff Barry[?]
- Alan Bergman[?]
- Marilyn Bergman[?]
- Chuck Berry, "Johnny B. Goode"
- Otis Blackwell[?]
- James Brown, "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag"
- Felice and Boudleaux Bryant[?], "Bye Bye Love"
- Eric Clapton, "Layla[?]"
- Phil Collins
- Sam Cooke, "You Send Me", "Bring It on Home", "Chain Gang[?]"
- Linda Creed[?]
- Bob Crewe[?], "Music to Watch Girls By"
- Jim Croce, "Time in a Bottle", "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)"
- Bobby Darin
- John Denver, "Leaving on a Jet Plane", "Take Me Home, Country Roads", "Sunshine on My Shoulders"
- Neil Diamond, "I'm a Believer"
- Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew[?], "The Fat Man[?]", "Ain't That a Shame", "Blueberry Hill"
- Lamont Dozier[?]
- Bob Dylan, "Blowin' in the Wind", "Like a Rolling Stone", "Lay Lady Lay"
- Glenn Frey[?]
- Kenneth Gamble[?]
- Bob Gaudio[?]
- Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb, the Bee Gees, "Stayin' Alive", "Lonely Days", "How Deep Is Your Love"
- Norman Gimbel[?]
- Gerry Goffin[?]
- Howard Greenfield[?]
- Ellie Greenwich[?]
- Marvin Hamlisch[?]
- Sheldon Harnick[?]
- Don Henley[?], of the Eagles, "Hotel California"
- Jerry Herman
- Bob Hilliard[?]
- Brian Holland[?]
- Eddie Holland[?]
- Buddy Holly, "Peggy Sue", "Oh, Boy"
- Harlan Howard[?]
- Leon Huff[?]
- Michael Jackson, "Bad", "Billie Jean"
- Mick Jagger & Keith Richards, the Rolling Stones, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Honky Tonk Women"
- Antonio Carlos Jobim[?]
- Billy Joel, "Piana Man"
- Elton John & Bernie Taupin, "Candle in the Wind", "Your Song", "Rocketman", "Bennie & the Jets"
- Carole King & Gerry Goffin[?], "You Make Me Feel Like a (Natural Woman)", "The Locomotion", "You've Got a Friend", "Chains"
- Kris Kristofferson, "Me and Bobby McGee[?]", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", "Help Me Make It Through the Night"
- Peggy Lee
- Michael Legrand[?]
- Jerry Leiber[?]
- Carol Leigh[?]
- Little Richard, "Tutti Frutti", "Good Golly, Miss Molly"
- John Lennon & Paul McCartney, together as the Beatles: "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "Please Please Me", "Yesterday"; Lennon: "Imagine"; McCartney: "Silly Love Songs"
- Barry Manilow, "Mandy"
- Barry Mann[?]
- Curtis Mayfield, "Freddie's Dead", "Superfly"
- Bob Merrill[?]
- Joni Mitchell, "Woodstock"
- Willie Nelson, "Crazy", "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain"
- Randy Newman, "Short People", "You've Got a Friend"
- Roy Orbison, "Oh, Pretty Woman"
- Dolly Parton, "Coat of Many Colors"
- Queen, "Bohemian Rhapsody", "We Are the Champions"
- Otis Redding, "Respect", "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay"
- Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat[?], Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita
- Lionel Richie, "Three Times a Lady"
- Smokey Robinson, "You've Really Got a Hold on Me", "I Second That Emotion", "The Tears of a Clown"
- Jerry Ross[?]
- Carole Bayer Sager[?]
- Neil Sedaka[?], "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do", "Oh Carol"
- Mort Shuman[?] & Doc Pomus, "Save the Last Dance for Me", "Teenager in Love"
- Carly Simon, "You're So Vain"
- Paul Simon, "Bridge over Troubled Water", "Call Me Al", "I Am a Rock", "A Hazy Shade of Winter", "Mrs. Robinson[?]"
- Valerie Simpson[?]
- Stephen Sondheim, West Side Story, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, "Send in the Clowns"
- Phil Spector, "Then He Kissed Me", "You've Lost That Loving Feeling", "River Deep-Mountain High"
- Bruce Springsteen, "Born in the U.S.A.", "Born to Run", "Streets of Philadelphia"
- Stephen Stills, "For What It's Worth", "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"
- Sting, "Every Breath You Take", "Roxanne"
- Mike Stoller[?]
- Charles Strouse[?]
- James Taylor, "Fire and Rain"
- Van Morrison, "Brown-Eyed Girl"
- Diane Warren[?]
- Jimmy Webb
- Cynthia Weil[?] & Barry Mann[?], "We Gotta Get Out of This Place", "Broadway"
- John Williams
- Paul Williams, "We've Only Just Begun", "Evergreen"
- Brian Wilson, "California Girls", "Surfin' U.S.A.", "Good Vibrations"
- Stevie Wonder, "Superstition", "I Just Called to Say I Love You"
Nashville Songwriters Foundation Hall of Fame[?]
- Joe Allison[?]
- Bill Anderson[?]
- Gene Autry
- Max D. Barnes[?]
- Carl Belew[?]
- Chuck Berry, "You Never Can Tell"
- Charlie Black[?]
- [[Otis Blackwell], "All Shook Up"
- Johnny Bond[?]
- Rory Michael Bourke[?]
- Bobby Braddock[?]
- Sue Brewer[?]
- Albert Brumley[?]
- Boudleaux & Felice Bryant[?]
- Smiley Burnette[?]
- Hoagy Carmichael, "Stardust"
- Jenny Lou Carson[?]
- Wayne Carson[?]
- A.P. Carter, "Wildwood Flower"
- Wilf Carter[?]
- Johnny Cash
- Maggie Cavender[?], founder of Nashville Songwriters Association[?], not a songwriter
- Jerry Chesnut[?]
- Jack Clement[?], "It'll Be Me", "Ballad of a Teenage Queen", "Miller's Cave"
- Zeke Clements[?]
- Hank Cochran[?]
- Tommy Collins[?]
- Roger Cook[?]
- Sonny Curtis[?]
- Ted Daffan[?]
- Vernon Dalhart[?], "There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere"
- Hal David[?]
- Jimmie Davis[?], "You are my Sunshine"
- Mac Davis[?]
- Alton & Rabon Delmore
- Al Dexter[?], "Honky Tonk Blues", "Pistol Packin' Mama"
- Danny Dill
- Dean Dillon
- Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey, "Precious Lord Take My Hand", "Peace in the Valley"
- Bob Dylan, "Lay Lady Lay"
- Everly Brothers
- Jerry Foster & Bill Rice
- Dallas Frazier
- Lefty Frizzell[?]
- Don Gibson
- Randy Goodrum
- Rex Griffin
- Woody Guthrie, "This Land is your Land"
- Merle Haggard
- Tom T. Hall
- Stuart Hamblen
- W.C. Handy, "Saint Louis Blues"
- Ted Harris
- William J. "Billy" Hill
- Buddy Holly, "That'll Be the Day", "Peggy Sue"
- Wayland Holyfield
- Vaughn Horton
- Harlan Howard
- Waylon Jennings
- Wayne Kemp[?]
- Merle Kilgore[?]
- Bradley Kincaid[?]
- Pee Wee King[?], "Tennessee Waltz"
- Kris Kristofferson
- Red Lane[?]
- Leadbelly, (Huddie Ledbetter), "Goodnight, Irene"
- Dickey Lee[?]
- Richard Leigh[?]
- Dennis Linde[?]
- Dave Loggins[?]
- John D. Loudermilk[?]
- Charles & Ira Louvin[?]
- Loretta Lynn
- Vic McAlpin[?], "Plastic Saddle"
- Bob McDill[?]
- Elsie McWilliams[?]
- Bob Miller[?]
- Eddie Miller[?]
- Roger Miller[?], "King of the Road", "You Can't Roller Skate in Buffalo Herd"
- Bill Monroe, "Blue Moon of Kentucky"
- Moon Mullican[?], "I'll Sail My Ship Alone"
- Steve & Ed Nelson[?]
- Willie Nelson, "(Ain't It) Funny How Time Slips Away?"
- Mickey Newbury[?]
- Bob Nolan[?], of the Sons of the Pioneers[?], "Cool Water"
- Kenny O'Dell[?]
- Roy Orbison, "Oh, Pretty Woman", "Claudette"
- A.L. "Doodle" Owens[?]
- Buck Owens[?]
- Tex Owens[?]
- Dolly Parton, "Coat of Many Colors", "Jolene"
- Leon Payne[?], "Psycho"
- Carl Perkins, "Blue Suede Shoes"
- Ben Peters[?]
- Curly Putman[?]
- Eddie Rabbitt[?]
- Allen Reynolds[?]
- Jack Rhodes[?]
- Tex Ritter[?], "The Deck of Cards"
- Kent Robbins[?]
- Marty Robbins, "El Paso"
- Don Robertson[?]
- Carson Robison[?], "Gone Fishin'", "Life Gets Teejus, Don't It?"
- Jimmie Rodgers, The Singing Brakeman, "T for Texas", "Blue Yodel"
- Fred Rose[?]
- Bobby Russell[?]
- Johnny Russell[?]
- Don Schlitz[?]
- Troy Seals[?]
- Sanger D. "Whitey" Shafer[?]
- Billy Sherrill[?]
- Shel Silverstein, "A Boy Named 'Sue'"
- Beasley Smith[?]
- Hank Snow, "I'm Movin' On"
- Joe South[?], "Walk a Mile in My Shoes", "Games People Play"
- Tim Spencer[?]
- Ray Stevens, "Everything is Beautiful", "Gitarzan"
- Redd Stewart[?]
- Gene Sullivan[?]
- Glenn Sutton[?]
- Hank Thompson[?]
- Sonny Throckmorton[?]
- Mel Tillis[?]
- Floyd Tillman[?]
- Merle Travis[?], "16 Tons"
- Ernest Tubb[?], "I'm Walking the Floor Over You"
- Conway Twitty[?]
- Jimmy Wakely[?], "Slipping Around"
- Cindy Walker[?]
- Wayne Walker[?]
- Wiley Walker[?]
- Don Wayne[?]
- Jimmy Webb
- Billy Edd Wheeler[?]
- Ray Whitley[?]
- Marijohn Wilkin[?]
- Hank Williams, Sr.[?], "I'm So Lonesome, I Could Die"
- Bob Wills, "San Antonio Rose"
- Norro Wilson[?]
- Scotty Wiseman[?]
Nashville Songwriters Association International[?]
2002
Troy Verges
2000-2001
Darrell Scott
1999 Tom Shapiro (Songwriter of the Decade 1990-99)
1999 Diane Warren
1998 Phil Vassar
1997 Craig Wiseman
1996 Mark D. Sanders
1995 Mark D. Sanders
1994 Gary Burr
1993 Dennis Linde
1992 Gary Burr & Susan Longacre [tie]
1991 Pat Alger
1990 Jon Vezner
1989 Kostas
1988 Bob McDill
1987 Don Schlitz
1986 Paul Overstreet
1985 Bob McDill
1984 Kenny O’Dell
1983 Jeff Silbar & Larry Henley [tie]
1982 Kye Fleming & Dennis Morgan [tie]
1981 Kye Fleming & Dennis Morgan [tie]
1980 Bob Morrison
1979 Sonny Throckmorton
1978 Sonny Throckmorton
1977 Roger Bowling & Hal Bynum (for "Lucille")
1976 Bob McDill (for "Amanda")
1975 Ben Peters (for "Before The Next Teardrop Falls")
1974 Don Wayne (for "Country Bumpkin")
1973 Kris Kristofferson (for "Why Me, Lord?")
1972 Tom T. Hall (for "Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine")
1971 Kris Kristofferson (for "Sunday Morning Coming Down")
1970 Kris Kristofferson (for "For The Good Times")
1969 Merle Haggard (for "Okie From Muskogee")
1968 Bobby Russell (for "Honey")
1967 Dallas Frazier (for "There Goes My Everything")
2002 Alan Jackson
2000-2001 Brad Paisley
1999 Vince Gill (Songwriter/Artist of the Decade 1990-99)
1999 Steven Curtis Chapman
1998 Shania Twain
1997 Vince Gill
1996 Vince Gill
1995 Vince Gill
1994 Vince Gill
1993 Clint Black
1992 Garth Brooks & Alan Jackson [tie]
1991 Alan Jackson
1990 Vince Gill
1989 Clint Black
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