Johnny Mercer Award

Sondheim... the name be-speaks theatrical excite-ment and applause. He is one of the singularly gifted within the ranks of the Broadway musical elite, a man who has spent his entire career making wonderful music. While Stephen Sondheim may be best known in the public view as a Broadway composer, his…

Abe Olman Publisher Award

At age 21, when many young Americans, then and now, are concerned with passing grades in college, Bill Lowery was running his first radio station, kicking off a lifetime marriage to the music business. For several years, Lowery worked in major market radio, eventually coming to roost in Atlanta, where…

Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award

The term "multi-talented" often becomes overused even misused in the show business lexicon, so often employed in the context of an individual's talents. Not so in the case of Kenny Rogers, whose career embodies many of the attributes most often associated with Lifetime Achievement, the award for which he joins…

Hitmaker Award

If you suggested that "it runs in the family," you'd be close to the mark. For if there ever was a successful filial succession, it's Natalie Cole and her Dad, the late great Nat King Cole. Such a kinship might well have become a kind of satellite relationship to the…

Patron of the Arts Award

Robert G. Mondavi, founder and chairman of Robert Mondavi Winery in the historic Napa Valley of California, has enjoyed a unique and successful career as a businessman and a true patron of the arts. His philosophy, for many years, has been that good wines, good foods, music and all artforms…

Towering Song