Songwriters Hall of Fame Announces 2011 Inductees – PR Newswire (press release)

NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Musical titans John Bettis, Garth Brooks, Leon Russell, Billy Steinberg & Tom Kelly as good as Allen Toussaint will turn a newest members of a Songwriters Hall of Fame during a organization’s 42nd Annual Induction as good as Awards Dinner. The star-studded eventuality is slated for Thursday, Jun 16th during a Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. Additional special endowment honorees will be voiced soon.

“We have been desirous by a distinguished size as good as operation of a 2011 Songwriters Hall of Fame class,” says SHOF Chairman, mythological songwriter, as good as Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Jimmy Webb. “John, Garth, Leon, Billy, Tom as good as Allen any paint a singular multiply of artist, tenderly reputable by their peers as good as worshiped by all lovers of song. As songwriters, their work has perpetually enriched a world’s music.”

Established in 1969, a Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF) serves as a critical overpass in between music’s past as good as future. In a museum, low-pitched pioneers have been enshrined as good as celebrated, whilst a organization’s strain village overdo grooms a subsequent era of troubadours. In entering a Hall, John Bettis, Garth Brooks, Leon Russell, Billy Steinberg & Tom Kelly as good as Allen Toussaint stick upon an chosen family which includes Kris Kristofferson, Carole King, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Dolly Parton, James Taylor, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, Sir Elton John, Bernie Taupin, Loretta Lynn, Leonard Cohen, James Brown, as good as more.

John Bettis:

John Bettis has created songs which have sole some-more than 250 million annals worldwide as good as have been sung by a little of a most desired artists of all time including, Michael Jackson, George Strait, Celine Dion, Madonna, Diana Ross, Whitney Houston, Karen Carpenter as good as most more.  His songs include: “Human Nature,” “Heartland,” “Top Of The World,” “Yesterday Once More,” “Good-Bye To Love,” “Only Yesterday,” “Can You Stop The Rain?,” “One Moment In Time,” “Crazy For You,” as good as “Slow Hand.” Bettis has been nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, 3 Grammys® as good as 3 Emmys.  In 1988 he perceived an Emmy for “One Moment In Time,” a thesis strain for a 1988 Olympics. He additionally perceived an Emmy for “Where Is The Hope” in 2003. His strain “Human Nature” was enclosed in a ancestral manuscript of a year Thriller.  His movie work includes Twilight Zone: The Movie, Vision Quest, Pure Country, Cocktail, Star Trek V as good as The Godfather III between others.  His TV themes embody Growing Pains, Murphy Brown as good as Nurses. 

Garth Brooks:

Certified by a RIAA as a #1 offered piece for a singular person artist in U.S. history, Garth Brooks has sole some-more than 128 million albums as good as is a usually piece for a singular person artist in RIAA story to have 6 albums tip a 10 million mark. His most latest release The Ultimate Hits has been approved 5x platinum. His physique of work includes groundbreaking albums No Fences, Ropin’ The Wind, The Hits and Double Live – all of which helped propel nation strain as a genre to a front pages of newspapers as good as magazines worldwide. Since violation onto a charts in 1989, Brooks has brought a accumulation of styles together with operative category blues, honky tonk, bluegrass as good as locus rock. As a songwriter his credits embody “If Tomorrow Never Comes,” “The Thunder Rolls,” “Unanswered Prayers” as good as “We Shall Be Free” to name a few. Brooks has perceived any fame a recording courtesy can show upon an artist, including  two Grammys®, seventeen American Music Awards, eleven Country Music Association Awards, eighteen Academy of Country Music Awards, 5 World Music Awards, twelve People’s Choice Awards, as good as 36 Billboard Music Awards. He was declared Artist of a ’90s during a 1997 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, perceived a Artist Achievement Award during a 1997 Billboard Music Awards, was declared Artist of a Decade during a American Music Awards in 2000 as good as the Academy of Country Music Awards in 1999. In 2001, in a surrounded by of a singular of a most successful careers in strain history, Brooks late as good as changed behind to Oklahoma to lift his children. In 2008, Brooks headlined President Obama’s Inaugural Celebration during a Lincoln Memorial. In 2009, Brooks emerged out of early retirement as good as entered a five-year performing relationship with Las Vegas resort developer, Steve Wynn. He not long ago accomplished an startling 9 concerts to lift $5 million for a inundate service efforts in Nashville, Tennessee. 

Leon Russell:

Leon Russell is a mythological songwriter whose credits embody “A Song For You,” “This Masquerade,” ” Delta Lady,” ” Tight Rope,” “Bluebird,” ” Back To The Island,” as good as “Hummingbird.” Joe Cocker had a strike with “Delta Lady,” B.B. King with “Hummingbird,” as good as The Carpenters with “Superstar,” which Leon co-wrote with Bonnie Bramlett.  George Benson’s recording of “This Masquerade” won a Grammy® Award for Best Record of The Year in 1977 as good as was a usually strain with vocals upon his three times Platinum album, Breezin. Russell had his own draft success with “Tight Rope” during #11 in 1972 as good as “Bluebird” during #14 in 1975. Russell’s song, “If It Wasn’t for Bad,” from his 2010 duet manuscript The Union, with Elton John, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. Russell was good well known as a eventuality musician in Los Angeles during a 1960′s, as good as played upon strike annals by The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Herb Alpert as good as The Tijuana Brass, Gary Lewis as good as The Playboys, as good as most others. Russell will be respected by a Rock as good as Roll Hall of Fame as a initial target of a Award for Musical Excellence in Mar 2011.

Billy Steinberg & Tom Kelly:

Billy Steinberg & Tom Kelly have been between a most successful songwriters of a past twenty-five years, co-writing 5 #1 singles upon Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, together with Madonna’s “Like A Virgin,” Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors,” Whitney Houston’s “So Emotional,” The Bangles’ “Eternal Flame,” as good as Heart’s “Alone.”  They began operative together in 1981 as good as accessible an manuscript as I-10 upon Epic Records in 1983, which featured “Alone” as good as noted a commencement of a longtime essay partnership which resulted in a little of a most noted hits of a 80s as good as 90s. Steinberg & Kelly have created for artists such as Tina Turner, Roy Orbison, Pat Benatar, Belinda Carlisle, Bette Midler, Rod Stewart, Celine Dion, Carrie Underwood as good as The Divinyls with “I Touch Myself” between others. Many of Steinberg & Kelly’s songs have turn fast classics as good as go upon to embrace courtesy from most of today’s tip artists. “Like A Virgin” was respected by Rolling Stone & MTV as a #4 strain upon a list of a 100 Greatest Pop Songs. “True Colors” was accessible by Phil Collins for his Greatest Hits manuscript as good as became a vital worldwide hit. “True Colors” was additionally featured in Kodak’s distinguished television-based announcement debate for multiform years. Celine Dion scored hits with covers of “I Drove All Night” as good as “Alone.” These songs have additionally been staples for singers upon American Idol.  In 1993, Steinberg & Kelly began an additional high-profile collaboration, essay large songs with Chrissie Hynde of a Pretenders. The contingent wrote 6 songs for a group’s Last of a Independents manuscript in 1994, which enclosed a Top 10 hit, “I’ll Stand By You,” as good as a single, “Night In My Veins.”

Allen Toussaint:

Allen Toussaint; musician, songwriter as good as jot down producer, is a singular of a most successful total in New Orleans R&B. He has produced, created for, arranged, had his songs lonesome by as good as achieved with strain giants The Judds, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Elvis Costello, Patti LaBelle, Mac “Dr. John” Rebannac, Aaron as good as Art Neville, Joe Cocker, The (original) Meters, Glen Campbell, The Band, Little Feat, The Rolling Stones, Devo, Ernie K-Doe, Lee Dorsey, Irma Thomas, Etta James, Ramsey Lewis, Eric Gale as good as large others.  His songs as good as productions have been featured in large films, as good as as a outcome of his army as low-pitched executive for a off Broadway fool around Staggerlee, a prolongation garnered a prestigious Outer Circle Critics Award.  Toussaint got his shot as a piece for a singular person artist with a jot down for RCA as good as dual of his beginning tunes, “Java,” which became a mega-hit for trumpeter Al Hirt, as good as “Whipped Cream,” a Herb Alpert hit, became instrumental standards. Toussaint afterwards went onto group up with Lee Dorsey branch out a fibre of hits which enclosed “Working In The Coalmine,” “Holy Cow”, “Ride Your Pony” as good as most others. “Working in a Coalmine” was afterwards accessible by co-writer Lee Dorsey, “Yes We Can” became a pound strike by The Pointer Sisters as good as “Sneaking Sally Thru The Alley” was accessible by both Robert Palmer as good as Ringo Starr; he additionally contributed to a strain commercial operation with his arrangements upon LaBelle’s hit, “Lady Marmalade.” After substantiating himself as a singular of a biggest songwriters, accredited to him by BMI Music, Toussaint was respected with a Grammy® assignment for 1977′s Song of a Year, “Southern Night,” achieved by Glen Campbell.  In 1998, Toussaint was inducted in to a Rock as good as Roll Hall of Fame as good as in 2009, was a Grammy® Trustees honoree.

About The Songwriters Hall of Fame:

The Songwriters Hall of Fame celebrates songwriters, educates a open with courtesy to their achievements, as good as produces a spectrum of veteran programs clinging to a growth of latest songwriting bent by workshops, showcases as good as scholarships. There have been fewer than 400 inductees who have up a considerable register enshrined in a Hall of Fame. The list includes Barry Mann as good as Cynthia Weil, Jerry Leiber as good as Mike Stoller, Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier as good as Brian Holland, Albert Hammond, Desmond Child, Paul Williams, Hal David as good as Burt Bacharach, John Fogerty, Bob Dylan, Isaac Hayes as good as David Porter, Richard as good as Robert Sherman, Carole King, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Sir Elton John, Bernie Taupin, Brian Wilson, James Taylor, James Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Curtis Mayfield, Jim Croce, Phil Collins, Alan as good as Marilyn Bergman, Loretta Lynn, Jimmy Webb, Van Morrison, Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton, Diane Warren as good as Leonard Cohen between most others.

Full biographies as good as a finish list of inductees have been accessible during a Songwriters Hall of Fame’s Virtual Museum during http://songwritershalloffame.org.

Join us! Our goal is to recollect as good as respect a good songwriters whilst structure a low-pitched destiny by workshops, showcases as good as scholarships, along with a eventuality to opinion for a subsequent line-up of inductees. Joining online is discerning as good as easy: http://songhall.org/join

Ticket Information:

Tickets for a Songwriters Hall of Fame eventuality proceed during $1000 each, as good as have been accessible by Buckley Hall Events, (212) 573-6933. Net deduction from a eventuality will go towards a Songwriters Hall of Fame programs.

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