Songwriters Hall of Fame

Bill Withers’ music and lyrics have phenomenal accessibility and universal appeal. Withers was awarded his first Grammy award as a songwriter for “Ain’t No Sunshine,” in 1971. His classic composition “Lean On Me” went to #1 in 1972. Withers’ other classic compositions include the soulful “Use Me,” the hit song…

Isaac Hayes and David Porter were one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 1960s. After playing on several sessions for Otis Redding, Hayes was tapped to play keyboards in the Stax house band, and eventually established a partnership with songwriter David Porter. Under the name the Soul Children,…

As a founding member of the legendary Booker T and the MG’s, as well as an A&R man, producer and songwriter, Steve Cropper was involved in virtually every record issued by the seminal Stax recording label from the fall of 1961 through year end 1970. Some of his songwriting credits…

John Fogerty’s enduring songs like “Proud Mary,” “Bad Moon Rising,” “Who’ll Stop The Rain,” “Lodi,” “Looking Out My Back Door,” “Run Through The Jungle,” “Centerfield” and “Fortunate Son” are now so firmly engrained in our collective consciousness they seem to have come to us from the American soil as much…

One of Walt Disney's most successful songwriting teams was that of brothers Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman. These incredible children’s film composers created the music heard in “Mary Poppins,” “The Jungle Book,” “Parent Trap,” “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” “Aristocats,” and many more Oscar-nominated scores. The Shermans have won several…