Johnny Mercer Award

What some might call the original British invasion, began more than 50 years before the Beatles arrived in America, when a great music man to be, Jule Stein, left his homeland of England with his parents, bound for the United States. The year was 1912, and the young boy who…

Abe Olman Publisher Award

When a young man named Berry Gordy enjoyed his earliest success as a songwriter in late-50's Detroit, it was the beginning of a landslide of music and talent whose lustre and excitement would one day rival the auto industry for the motor city's best-known export. Gordy, who became the peerless…

Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award

Ray Charles, whose musical genius is celebrated this evening as he receives the Songwriters' Hall of Fame1993 Lifetime Achievement Award, has, in the course of his 47 years as a professional musician, become a musical legend, one of the outstanding Figures to play a key role in the musical history…

Patron of the Arts Award

Michel Roux, who receives the Songwriters' Hall of Fame "Patron of the Arts" award this evening, has served for the past 11 years as President and CEO of Carillon Importers, a New Jersey-based company which imports to America such major brand names as Absolut Vodka and Grand Marnier Liqueurs, among…