Songwriters Hall of Fame

Over the course of more than three decades, Jackson Browne has written and performed some of the most literate and moving songs in popular music. With classic albums including Late For The Sky, The Pretender, Running On Empty, and For Everyman, and songs like “Doctor My Eyes,” “Rock Me On…

Lyricist/lbrettist Don Black collaborated with Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber on such hit musicals as Tell Me on a Sunday, Sunset Boulevard and Aspects of Love. He also teamed with composer John Barry on the theme songs for the James Bond movies Thunderball, Diamonds Are Forever, and Man with the Golden…

Irving Burgie has long been acknowledged as one of the greatest composers of Caribbean music. Since 1956, his songs have sold over 100 million records by artists throughout the world, and he is the composer of such world standards as “Jamaica Farewell,” “Day-O” and “Island in the Sun.” He has…

Songwriter/producer Michael Masser first came to fame with “Touch Me in the Morning,” the hit power ballad that he wrote and produced for Diana Ross in 1973. With Gerry Goffin he then wrote the Oscar-nominated Ross movie “Theme from ‘Mahogany’ (Do You Know Where You’re Going To?).” He later wrote…

Foremost among the many songs that the team of Bobby Weinstein and Teddy Randazzo wrote was “Goin’ Out of My Head,” a hit for Little Anthony & the Imperials, which tallied over six million performances, and “Hurt So Bad,” also a hit for Little Anthony & the Imperials, that accounted…

Foremost among the many songs that the team of Bobby Weinstein and Teddy Randazzo wrote was “Goin’ Out of My Head,” a hit for Little Anthony & the Imperials, which tallied over six million performances, and “Hurt So Bad,” also a hit for Little Anthony & the Imperials, that accounted…