Songwriters Hall of Fame

Linda Creed found her way to the top of the best-selling charts as a member of a notable group of music makers known as the Philadelphia School. Born in the Quaker City in 1948, she attended Germantown High School, where she was active in music pursuits. In fact, during her…

Though often over-used, the term "founding father" is totally appropriate in describing Doc Pomus' relationship to popular music. "As one of music's most gifted and prolific songwriters, Doc Pomus helped invent rock 'n' roll," pronounced Rolling Stone Magazine in the 1991 year-end issue.

Born Jerome Solon Felder in 1925…

Brooklyn-born Mort Shuman inherited from his parents a passion for art and music. He studied philosophy at school, but despite being accepted at City College of New York, Shuman opted for a career in music and began writing songs. When he was barely 16, he met 31-year-old Doc Pomus, a…

Billy Joel, singer, songwriter and piano man extraordinaire, has been a major force in popular music for more than 20 years. A native Long Islander, born in 1949, Joel grew up in Hicksville at the peak of the post World War II baby boom. At the age of four, Billy…

Elton John, one of the most successful purveyors of hit songs and records in the history of the music industry, has numerous distinctions. Without question he fits the classification of "singer/songwriter" like few others. He is the composer of virtually all his hit recorded songs. He and lyric writer, Bernie…

When Liberty Records of the UK placed an innocuous ad seeking new songwriters, in England's music paper, The New Musical Express, amazing repercussions were soon to take place. It was 1967, four years after the arrival of The Beatles and two years before Woodstock, when a lyric writer, Bernie Taupin,…