Three New Inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame-- Part 1: Dillon, Williams and Stuart

From the August 13, 2020, Chicago Tribune  "Artists to join country hall of fame."

Hank Williams Jr., Marty Stuart and songwriter Dean Dillon are the newest inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee.

This was announced on Wednesday, August 12 by the Country Music Association.  Williams will join his father, country legend Hank Williams Sr in the Hall of Fame's rotunda.

"I have been making Top Ten records for 56 years, said Williams, 71.  "I fell off a mountain and tried to reinvent myself as a truly individual artist and one who stepped out of the shadows of a very famous man, one of the greatest.  I've got to thank all those rowdy friends, who, year after year, still show up for me.

"It's an honor to carry one this family tradition.  It is much appreciated."

Bocephus, as he is also known, is known for his songs like "A Country Boy Can Survive,"  "Family Tradition" and "All My Rowdy Friends Are Comin' Over Tonight."  He has had 10 No. 1 Billboard Hot Country songs.  That's him singing at the beginning of Monday Night Football games.

One of my absolute favorite country singers. Back when male country singers did not sound so similar.  You knew when Hank Williams, Jr., Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash or George Jones was singing.

--RoadBocephus

Joe South-- Part 2: "Games People Play" and "Rose Garden"

From Wikipedia.

(February 28, 1940 - September 5, 2012)

American singer-songwriter, guitarist and record producer.  Best known for his song-writing, he won a Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1970 for "Games People Play" and was nominated in 1972 for "Rose Garden."He started his pop career in 1958 with "The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor."He then wrote a couple songs for Gene Vincent.

He began his recording career with the National Recording Corporation where he served as staff guitarist  along with Ray Stevens and Jerry Reed.  He was also a prominent sideman, playing guitar on Tommy Roe's "Sheila",  Bob Dylan's "Blonde On Blonde" album, did the classic intro to Aretha Franklin's "Chain of Fools."

--RoadDog

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Joe South-- Part 1: Born Joe Souter

Joe South had the #26 song, "Games People Play"  in Chicago on the WLS Silver Dollar Survey for the week of March 10, 1969.  It was on its way down after peaking at #8 February 7 and 14.  It peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Here's what Joel Whitburn had to say about him in his "Top Pop Singles 1955 -1993."

Born Joe Souter on 2/28/40 in Atlanta.  Successful Nashville session guitarist/songwriter in the  mid-1960s.  Wrote "Down In the Boondocks,"  "Hush" and "Rose Garden."

  His only other solo Top 40 was "Walk A Mile In My Shoes"  (#12-1970).

A Very Talented Guy.  --RoadDog

TOP TEN TRIVIA:  More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.

Songwriters Hall of Fame Nominees for 2019 Induction

November 8, 2018

Tommy James
Lloyd Price
Cat Stevens

Mike Love (Beach Boys)
Jeff Lynn  (ELO)
Tommy Boyce and Booby Hart

L. Russell Brown & Irvin Fuller  Wrote most of the hits for Tony Orlando & Dawn
Jerry Fuller   Wrote most of Gary Puckett's hits)
Jack Tempchin  Wrote many Eagles hits.

F.F. Sloan & Steve Barri   "Wrote "Eve of Destruction" and many hits for the Grass Roots
Tom T. Hall  "Harper Valley PTA"
Roger Nichols    Hits for Paul Williams and Carpenters

Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham   "Cry Like A Baby" and "I'm Your Puppet"

Winners will be announced June 13, 2019, in New York City.

--RoadDog

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Walks of Famers and Songwriters Hall of Fame.

From Oldies Music News.

Congratulations go out to Andy Kim who has been added to the Walk of Fame in Canada.

Congratulations to Brenda Lee and Ray Stevens who are now own the Music City (Nashville) Walk of Fame.

Also, congratulations to these new members of the Songwriters Hall of Fame:

Robert "Kool" Bell, George Brown and James J.T. Taylor   These three from Kool and the Gang.

Neil Diamond received the Johnny Mercer Award.

--RoadDog

HOW COME:  Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

Neil Diamond Receives the Johnny Mercer Award

The Songwriters Hall of Fame on March 20, 2018, announced that Neil Diamond would receive the annual Johnny Mercer Award.  He will receive it on June 14 in New York City.

--RoadDog

AIN'T IT THE TRUTH:  I didn't make it to the gym today.  That makes five years in a row.

Music Deaths: P.F. Sloan

P.F. SLOAN, 70

Died November 15, 2015.  Songwriter.

Wrote:

"Eve of Destruction" (#1-1966) for Barry McGuire
"A Must to Avoid"  (#8--1966) for Herman's Hermits
"You Baby" (#20-1966) for the Turtles
"Secret Agent Man" (#3-1966) for Johnny Rivers

Other songs I know that he wrote:

"Let Me Be" by the Turtles, "Where Were You When I Needed You" and "Things I Should Have Said" for the Grassroots, "Child of Our Times" for Barry McGuire, "I Found a Girl" for Jan and Dean and that great Beach Music song "Summer Means Fun" for the Catalinas and Jan and Dean.

Those Were Some Great Songs.

Songwriter Hall of Fame Nominees Announced

Announced October 6th:  George Harrison, Marvin Gaye, Roger Miller, Jeff Lynne, Isley Brothers, Sly Stone, Blondie, Steve Miller, John Mellancamp, Tom Petty, John D. Loudermilk, Dallas Frazier, Chip Taylor, Lionel Bart and Berry Gordy Jr.,   Winners will be inducted in June.

I was glad to see Dallas Frazier on this list.  I've written about him in this blog.

It will be hard to choose from this list.

--RoadDog

Philadelphia's Sigma Sound Studio Gets Marker, Nashville Songwriters HoF Inductees

The Pennsylvania Historical and museum Commission on March 5, 2015, approved 22 historical markers, including one on the site of the now defunct Sigma Sound Studio in Philadelphia where tunes like "When Will I See You Again," "Disco Inferno" and "Macho Man" were recorded.


The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame announced their 2015 inductees.  They include Roseanne Cash, Mack Jones, who wrote "Hooked on a Feeling" and "Eyes of a New York Woman" for B.J. Thomas and "Suspicious Minds" for Elvis.  Also inducted was Even Stevens who co-authored many Eddie Rabbitt hits including "Suspicions" and "I Love a Rainy Night."

--RoadDog

2014 Songwriters Hall of Fame

From the Feb. 14, 2014, Oldies Music News.

The following people were inducted into the Songwriter Hall of Fame in New York City on Jan. 12, 2014:

Donovan
Ray Davies (Kinks)
Jom Weaherly "Midnight Train to Georgia," "Neither One of Us"
Graham Gouldman (10CC)
Mark Jones "Suspicious Minds"

--RoadDog


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Writers of Hit Songs That You Might Not Know

From Yahoo! News Who Knew "Writers Behind Hit Songs." //// Bruno Mars is one of the writers of Cee Lo Green's "Forget You." Wondering if he wrote the original non-playable on radio words? //// "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston was written and originally recorded by Dolly Parton. //// David Letterman sidekick and music director Paul Schaffer co-wrote "It's Raining Men" by the Weather Girls. //// Prince wrote Bangles' "Manic Monday" under the name Christopher. //// Stevie Nicks based her 1983 hit "Stand Back" on Prince's "Little Red Corvette" and he even played the synthesizer on it. //// Diane Warren wrote "Un-Break My Heart" by Toni Braxton. //// I Knew About Dolly, But Not the Rest. --RoadDog