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…

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…

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 for George Benson (the original version of “The Greatest Love of All”) and Neil Diamond (“First You Have to Say You Love Me”) and also wrote the Roberta Flack/Peabo Bryson hit “Tonight, I Celebrate My Love.” After Teddy Pendergrass scored in the Masser-penned “Hold Me” duet with newcomer Whitney Houston, he co-wrote three Houston chart-toppers, “Saving All My Love for You,” “The Greatest Love of All,” and “Didn’t We Almost Have It All.”

Key songs in the Masser catalog include “Didn’t We Almost Have It All?,” “Do You Know Where You’re Going To? (Theme From ‘Mahogany’),” “The Greatest Love Of All,” “Saving All My Love For You” and “Touch Me In The Morning.”

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…

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 Gun. Other pairings include Quincy Jones on the movie soundtrack for The Italian Job. Additionally, Black has penned such major pop hits as Michael Jackson’s “Ben,” Hot Chocolate’s “I’ll Put You Together Again,” and the enduring movie theme “To Sir With Love.”

Key songs in Black’s catalog include “Born Free,” “Come September,” “Diamonds Are Forever,” “For Mama” and “To Sir With Love.”