The Songwriters Hall of Fame has announced its slate of nominees to be voted upon for induction at its 2024 Induction & Awards Gala in New York City.
The Songwriters Hall of Fame is dedicated to recognizing the work and lives of those composers and lyricists who create music around the world. A songwriter with a notable catalog of songs qualifies for induction 20 years after the first significant commercial release of a song. Eligible voting members will have until midnight EST on December 27, 2023 to turn in ballots, with their choices of three nominees from a songwriter and three from a performing songwriter categories.
The nominees, with five songs selected by the Hall of Fame as a representative sample of their catalogs, are:
PERFORMING SONGWRITERS
Bryan Adams – *(Everything I Do) I Do It For You * Heaven * All For Love * Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman? * Summer of ’69 *
Randy Bachman & Burton Cummings – * These Eyes * American Woman * Laughing * No Time * No Sugar Tonight *
Debbie Harry, Chris Stein & Clem Burke p/k/a Blondie – * Call Me * Heart of Glass * Rapture * One Way or Another * Sunday Girl *
Tracy Chapman – * Fast Car * Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution * Give Me One Reason * Baby Can I Hold You * Sing For You *
George Clinton – * Atomic Dog * Flashlight * (Not Just) Knee Deep,* P-Funk * Give Up The Funk *
Tom Johnston, Patrick Simmons & Michael McDonald p/k/a Doobie Brothers – * Listen To The Music * Long Train Runnin’ * What A Fool Believes * China Grove * Black Water *
David Gates – * Everything I Own * Make It With You * Baby I’m-a Want You * The Guitar Man *If *
Ann Wilson & Nancy Wilson p/k/a Heart – * Barracuda * Crazy On You * Dog And Butterfly * Straight On * Even It Up *
Kenny Loggins – * Danny’s Song * Footloose * Celebrate Me Home * Return To Pooh Corner * What A Fool Believes *
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour p/k/a Chuck D, William Jonathan Drayton p/k/a Flavor Flav, p/k/a Public Enemy – * Fight The Power * Bring The Noise * Don’t Believe The Hype * Can’t Truss It * Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos *
Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills & Michael Stipe, p/k/a R.E.M. – * Losing My Religion * Everybody Hurts * It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) * Radio Free Europe * The One I Love *
Donald Fagen & Walter Becker (d) p/k/a Steely Dan – * Reelin’ in the Years * My Old School * Rikki Don’t Lose That Number * Black Friday * Kid Charlemagne *
NON-PERFORMING SONGWRITERS
L. Russell Brown – * Sock It To Me – Baby! * Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree * C’Mon Marianne * Knock Three Times * Use It Up and Wear It Out *
Dean Dillon – * Tennessee Whiskey *Ocean Front Property * Here For A Good Time * The Chair * I’m Alive *
Dennis Lambert & Brian Potter – *Ain’t No Woman (Like The One I’ve Got) * Don’t Pull Your Love * Nightshift * One Tin Soldier (Theme from Billy Jack) * We Built This City *
Hillary Lindsey – * Jesus Take The Wheel * Blue Ain’t Your Color * Girl Crush * Always Remember Us This Way * Million Reasons *
Tony Macaulay – * Baby Now That I’ve Found You * Build Me Up Buttercup * Don’t Give Up On Us * Last Night I Didn’t Get To Sleep At All * Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) *
Timothy Mosley p/k/a Timbaland – * Sexy Back * Get Yer Freak On * Pony * Big Pimpin’ * The Way I Are *
Roger Nichols – * We’ve Only Just Begun * Rainy Days and Mondays * I Won’t Last A Day Without You * Out In The Country * Times Of Your Life *
Dean Pitchford – * Footloose * Fame * Holding Out For A Hero * All The Man That I Need * Let’s Hear It For The Boy *
Maurice Starr – * Candy Girl * I’ll Be Loving You (Forever) * Is This the End * Step By Step * Popcorn Love *
Narada Michael Walden – * How Will I Know * Freeway of Love * Who’s Zoomin’ Who * I Don’t Wanna Cry * I Shoulda Loved Ya *
