C UN TR Y BMI Awards Spector, Dunn ASCAP Homes Don Schlitz Top Others Top Songwriting Honors Composer, Honors Hit Songs NASHVILLE Phil Spector, Holly Dunn, "Little Rog- Ways"- Dwight Yoakam; Coal Dust West NASHVILLE Don Schlitz, whose name Brothers, MCA, Don Schlitz. Murrah, "A Long Line Of Love" -Paul Overstreet, Thom Schuyler; er Paul Overstreet, and Dan Seals cap- graces seven of ASCAP's most "Crazy Over You "; Rodney Foster; Uncle Artie. Bethlehem, Scarlet Moon, performed tured top songwriter honors and Tree Publish- Screen Gems -EMI "Deep River Woman "; Lionel Richie; Brockman. "Love Me Like You Used To" -Paul David, Bobby Emmons; country songs this year, was proclaimed the ing Attadoo, "Domestic Life"; J.D. Martin; MCA. Co. and Warner Music Group won the ma- Paul And Jonathan Songs, Rightsong, Web IV society's songwriter of the year at award "Don't Go To Strangers"; J.D. Martin, Russell Smith; MCA. jor publishing awards at BMI's 36th "Love Reunited" -Stephen Edward Hill, Chris annual Hillman; Bar-None ceremonies held Oct. 12 at Opryland Hotel "A Face In The Crowd "; Karen Staley; AMR. "Love Someone Like Me" -Holly Dunn; Lawyer's country awards dinner, held here Oct. 11. Daughter here. "Fallin' For You For 'jars"; Mike Reid, Troy Seals; Lodge Hall, "Lynda" -Bill LaBounty, Pat McLaughlin; Frances Preston, BMI president and CEO, and Screen Gems -EMI Two-Sons, WB. "Maybe Your Baby's Got The Blues" "I'll Still Be Loving You," co- written by -Graham Lyle (PRS); Irving "Fire In The Sky "; Bob Carpenter, Jeff Hanna; Le- Bone -Aire, Roger Sovine, VP, honored the writers and "The Moon Is Still Over Her Shoulder" -Hugh Prestwood; Lawyer's Todd Cerney, was named the song of the Vicious Circle. publishers of the Daughter organization's most per- year. Hopi- Sound, Chriswald, and MCA "Fishin' In The Dark "; Jim Photoglo; Berger Bits. "My Rough And Rowdy Days " -Waylon Jennings, formed country songs as measured by broad- Roger Murrah; were "Forever And Ever, Amen"; Don Schlitz; MCA, Don Schlitz. Tom Collins, Waylon Jennings co- publishers of the top tune. The cast performances for the period of April 1, "Friends And Lovers (Both To Each Other)" (second award); "Ocean Front Property" -Hank Cochran, Dean Warner /Chappell Music Group was named Dillon; Larry Butler, Paul Gordon, Jay Gruska; Colgems -EMI, French Surf, WB. 1987, to March 31, 1988. SBK- Blackwood, Tree publisher of the year. "Girls Ride Horses, Too"; Alice Randall, Mark Sanders; Mid - The Robert "One For the Money"-Buck Moore; Tapadero J. Burton Award, honoring the In addition to citing 83 recent hits, Summer. "One Friend" -Dan Seals; Pink Pig late BMI president and saluting the most per- "Goodbye's All We Got Left "; Steve Earle; Goldline. "One Step Forward" ASCAP recognized its six most performed -Chris Hillman, Bill Wildes; Bar -None "Gotta Get Away"; Janis Gill; MCA. formed country song of the year, went to - Spec "Only When I Love" Dunn, country -Holly Chris Waters; Lawyer's Daughter, standards from Jan. 1, 1978, "Half Past Forever (Till I'm Blue In The Heart) "; Tom tor's "To Know Him Is To Love Him," Tree pub- through Dec. 31, 1987: Brasfield, Robert Byrne; Rick Hall. "Right From The Start" Herzig, lished by Mother Bertha Music Inc. -Billy Randy Watkins; Ensign, Red "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" (ninth award); written "Hard Livin'"; David Halley; Free Flow, Guy Harmonica, SBK Ribbon Dunn, Murrah, Overstreet, and Seals, who by Richard Leigh; published by SBK U. April. 'The Right Left Hand"- Dennis Knutson; Frizzell, Hall- each received three awards, shared in a unique Clement "The Gambler" (eighth award); Don Schlitz; Writer's Night. "Homecoming '63 "; Royce Porter; Southwing. "Rose In Paradise"- Stewart Harris, SBK -Blackwood "Lookin' For Love" (eighth award); Wanda Mallette, four -way Bob "How Do I Turn You On "; Robert Byrne, Mike Reid; Lodge Hall, tie for songwriter of the year. Other "She Couldn't Love Me Anymore"-Billy Henderson; Fame Morrison, Patti Ryan; Southern Nights. Rick Hall. "She's Too Good To Be True multiple winners included John Hadley, Gary "-Sonny Lemaire, J.P. Pennington; "She Believes In Me" (seventh award); Steve Gibb; Jack And "I Can't Win For Losing You "; Robert Byrne; Rick Hall. Pacific Island, Tree Harrison, James Dean Hicks, Chris Hillman, Bill. "I Know Where I'm Going "; Craig Bickhardt, Brent Maher, Don "Shine, Shine, Shine" -Kenny Bell; Ensign, Next 0 Ken "You Decorated My Life" (sixth award); Debbie Hupp, Bob Schlitz; Blue Quill, Colgenis-EMI, MCA, Don Schlitz, Welbeck. Harlan Howard, Bill LaBounty, Sonny Le- "Snap Your Fingers" -(second award) Grady Martin, Alex Zanetis; Morrison; Music City. "I Only Wanted You "; Bucky Jones; Cross Keys. Acuff -Rose maire, Reed Nielsen, Randy Owen, J.P. Pen- "You Needed Me" (eighth award); Randy Goodrum; Chappell, "I Prefer The Moonlight"; Gary Chapman; Riverstone. "Somewhere Tonight"- Harlan Howard; Tree nington, and Hank Williams Jr., with two cita- Ironside. "I Will Be There"; Jennifer Kimball; Michael H. Goldsen, Sweet tions each. "Tar Top"-Randy Owen; Maypop This year's most performed country songs, their writers, and Angel. "This Crazy Love" -James Dean Hicks, Roger Murrah; Tree and the Warner Music Group Tom Collins their publishers are as follows: "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" (second award); Bob Dylan; shared 'Those Memories Of You " -Alan O'Bryant; Bill Monroe "Am I Blue Yes I'm Blue"; David Chamberlain; Milene. Dwarf. "Three Time Loser" Seals; Pink top publishing plaudits, with each receiving -Dan Pig "Another World "; John Leffler, Ralph Schuckett; Fountain "I'll Come Back As Another Woman "; Richard Carpenter; Let 'Till I'm Too Old To Die Young" eight citations. Screen Gems -EMI Music won -John Hadley; Tree Square. There Be Music. 'To Know Him Is To Love Him " -(second six awards, award) Phil Spector; "Baby's Got A Hold On Me"; Bob Carpenter, Jeff Hanna; "I'll Never Be In Love Again "; Bob Corbin; Sabal. followed by the MTM Music Group Mother Bertha Moolagenous, Warner /Refuge. "I'll Still Be Loving You"; Todd Cerney; Chriswald, Hopi -Sound, and SBK Songs with five each. "Too Many Rivers" Other multiple -Harlan Howard; Combine "Baby's Got A New Baby "; Fred Knobloch, Dan Tyler; Colgems - MCA. "Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star" winners were Irving Music, Pink Pig Music, -Merle Haggard; Inorbit EMI, Sharp Circle, Uncle Artie. "It's Only Over For You"; Rory Bourke, Mike Reid; Lodge Hall, "The Way We Make Scarlet Moon Music, and Tom Collins Music A Broken Heart" -John Hiatt; Bilt, Bug "Brilliant Conversationalist "; Gary Nicholson; Cross Keys. RMB, Chappell. "The Weekend "-Beckie Foster, Bill LaBounty; Screen Gems -EMI "Can't Stop My Heart From Corp., each with three awards; Loving You"; Kieran Kane, Jamie "Julia"; Don Cook; Cross Keys. and Acuff-Rose "What Can I Do With My Heart " -Otha Young; Oh The Music O'Hara; Cross Keys, Kieran Kane. "Kids Of The Baby Boom "; David Bellamy; Bellamy Brothers. Music, Bar-None Music, Bocephus Music, "Why Does It Have To Be (Wrong Or Elvis Right)"-Randy Sharp; "The Carpenter"; Guy Clark; GSC, SBK April. "Last One To Know"; Jane Mariash; Cavesson. Rumble Seat, Warner -Tamerlane Presley Music, Englishtown Music, Ensign Mu- "Cowboy Man"; Lyle Lovett; Michael H. Goldsen, Lyle Lovett. "Leave Me Lonely "; Gary Morris; Gary Morris, WB. "You Still Move Me" -Dan Seals; Pink Pig sic Corp., Fame Publishing Co., Maypop Music, "Crazy From The Heart"; David Bellamy, Don Schlitz; Bellamy "Let The Music Lift You Up "; Troy Seals; Two -Sons, WB. Nashlon Music, Pacific Island Publishing, "Love Can't Ever Get Better Than This "; Irene Kelley, Nancy and Montgomery; Tapadero Music, which each Jack -N- Gordon, Silver Rain. won two awards. "Love Someone Like Me"; Rodney Foster; Uncle Artie. The BMI Country Awards Dinner was held "Make No Mistake (She's Mine)"; Kim Carnes; Moonwindow. for the first time at the Tennessee Performing "Mama's Rockin' Chair"; Johnny MacRae, Tim Menzies; Dig -A- Arts Center. BMI's Citation of Achievement '80s Lady K.T. Orlin Captures Bone, Intersong, Music City. "Maybe Your Baby's Got The Blues "; Troy Seals; Two -Sons, Award, in recognition of popularity in the field WB. of country music, went to 76 writers and 58 "Midnight Girl /Sunset Town "; Don Schlitz; Almo, Don Schlitz. publishers of 67 songs. A complete list of SESAC'S Top Songwñter Pilze "Mornin' Ride "; Steve Bogard; Chappell. "Ocean Front Property "; Royce Porter; Southwing. songs, writers, and publishers honored by BMI NASHVILLE In its annual awards cele- Music. follows: "Oh, Darlin' (Why Don't You Care For Me No Morey; Kieran bration at the Hyatt Regency Hotel here The individual songs cited for their na- Kane, Jamie O'Hara; Cross Keys. "All My Ex's Live In Texas "- Lyndia Shafer, Whitey Shafer; Acuff- Oct. 13, SESAC "Oh Heart"; Kathie Baillie, Michael Bonagura, Don Schlitz; Rose named K.T. Oslin its writer tional performance activity are as follows: Ya," Colgems -EMI, MCA, Don Schlitz. "Baby's Got A Hold of the year. Veteran DJ and TV talk show "Do written by K.T. Oslin, published by Wooden Wonder, On Me" -Josh Leo; Mopage, "One For The Money "; Mentor Williams, Cavesson. recorded by K.T. Orlin, RCA Records. Warner /E lekt ra/Asyl u m host Ralph Emery received the organiza- "One Promise Too Late "; Dave Loggins, Don Schlitz, Lisa "The Bed You "I'll Always Come Back," Oslin, Wooden Wonder, Oslin, RCA. Made For Me"- Paulette Carlson; Sportsman, tion's ambassador -of- country -music prize. Silver; MCA, Patchwork, Don Schlitz. Warner -Tamerlane "Tell It To Your Teddy Bear," Susan Longacre, Songs On Hold, When I the Shooters, "Only Love "; Tom Shapiro; Cross Keys. "Born To Boogie" Copping the international award was the Epic Records. -Hank Williams Jr.; Bocephus "The Right Left Hand "; A.L. "Doodle" Owens; Cavesson. "Brilliant Planet Earth "The New Never Wore Off My Sweet Baby," Frank Dycus, Fast Conversationalist" -John Hadley; Tree Project for its theme song, "Rose In Paradise "; Jim McBride; SBK Ball and Musicor, Dean Dillon, Capitol Records. April. "Chains Of Gold" -Paul Kennerley; Irving "Come In Planet Earth (Are You "Senorita "; Hank Listen- "Let It Rain," Mieke Appel, Mieke DeVito, Danny Flowers; Almo, Danny Flowers, "Cinderella"-Reed Nielsen; Englishtown Appel, Billy Joe Royal, ing?)." Released on record by Karen Taylor - Little Nemo. "Crazy Over You" Atlantic America Records. -Bill Lloyd; Lawyer's Daughter "She Couldn't Love Me Anymore "; Mike McGuire, Billy Good and co- written by Kent MacDonald, "River Of Time," Susan Longacre, Long Acre and WBM, "Daddy's Hands" -Holly Dunn; SBK -Blackwood Maddox; Rick Hall. Michael Martin Murphey, "Domestic Life"-Gary Harrison; the song also earned SESAC Warner Bros. Records. Nashlon recognition for "She Thinks That She'll Marry"; Dewayne Orender, Judy "Show Business," Bill O'Connell, O'Connell, Dave Valentin, "Don't Be Cruel " -(second award) Otis Blackwell, Elvis Presley; its GRP publishers, Bil -Kar and Giraffe Tracks. Records. Rodman; Sabal, Uncle Artie. Elvis Presley, Unichappell "Shine, Shine, Shine "; Bud McGuire; Butler's Bandits, SBK Honored for national performance activi- "The Ancient And The Infant," Ron Cooley, Dots And Lines "A Face In The Crowd"-Gary Harrison; Nashlon April. Ron "Face To Face" ty (classical) was Jerzy Sapieyevski; hon- Ink., Cooley, American Gramaphone Records. -Randy Owen; Maypop "Small Town Girl "; Don Cook; Cross Keys. "I Miss The Money" and "Burnin' Rubber," Mieke Appel, " Fishin' In The Dark" -Wendy Waldman; Moon And Stars, Screen ored for national performance activity (tele- Mieke "Somebody Lied "; Joe Chambers, Larry Jenkins; Galleon. Gems -EMI Appel, Joanna Dean, Polydor Records. vision) were writers Jimmy R. "Someone "; Charlie Black, Austin Roberts; Chriswald, Hopi - Hart and "Once Is Enough," E. R. Collins, E. R. Collins, Joanna Dean, "Forever And Ever, Amen" -Paul Overstreet; Scarlet Moon, Screen John J. Maguire Polydor Sound, Chappell. Gems -EMI and publisher Piledriver Records. "Somewhere Tonight"; Rodney Crowell; Coolwell, Granite. "Goin' Gone" -Bill Dale, Fred Koller; Foreshadow Songs, Little "Straight To The Heart"; Terry Britten (PRS); Chappell. Laurel, Lucrative "Take The Long Way Home "; John Neel; Song Pantry. "Gotta Have You " -Richard Landis, Reed Nielsen, Eddie Babbitt; "Telling Me Lies"; Betsy Cook (PRS), Linda Thompson (PRS); Briarpatch, Englishtown Chappell, Firesign. "Heaven Can't Be Found" -Hank Williams Jr.; Bocephus Nashville Songwriters Induct Seals In Hall "That Was A Close One "; Robert Byrne; Rick Hall. "I Can't Get Close Enough" Lemaire, -Sonny J.P. Pennington; "'Till I'm Too Old To Die Young"; Scott Dooley, Kevin Welch; Pacific Island, Tree Cross Keys. "I Can't Win For Lorin' You" Bowles; Fame -Rick "To All The Girls I've Loved Before" (fourth award); Hal David, "(I'd Choose) You Again -Paul Overstreet; Scarlet Moon, Screen Carmichael Enshrined Hammond; By NSAI Albert Casa David, SBK April. Gems-EMI "Train Of Memories "; Andy Byrd, Jimbeau Hinson; Goldline. "I Prefer The Moonlight" NASHVILLE -Mark Wright; Land Of Music, SBK - The late pop -music wizard "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes," "When "Twenty Years Ago "; Mike Noble; WB Gold. Blackwood Hoagy Carmichael was formally inducted We Make Love," and "Seven Spanish An- "We've Got Tonight" (fifth award); Bob Seger; Gear. "I Want To Know You Before We Make Love" -Becky Hobbs, Candy into the Nashville "Whiskey, If You Were A Woman "; Mary Welch Francis, Johnny Parton; Songwriters Assn. In- gels," accepted the award himself. Beckaroo, Irving MacRae, Bob Morrison; Southern Nights. "I Will Be There" -Tom Snow; Snow ternational's hall of fame here Oct. 9. Troy The association also recognized publish- "Why Does It Have To Be (Wrong Or Right) "; Donny Lowery; "I Won't Need You Anymore (Always And Forever)-Max D. Barnes, Seals, one of Nashville's most durable and er Bob Beckham with its President's Shedd House. Troy Seals; Blue Lake, Face The Music, Warner -Tamerlane dependable hit writers, was also tapped Award and lobbyist James C. Free with its "You Again "; Don Schlitz; MCA, Don Schlitz. "I'll Still Be Loving You " -(second award) Pat Bunch, Mary Ann for hall membership. "You And I" (fifth award); Frank Myers; Uncle Artie. Kennedy, Pam Rose; Choy La Rue, Flamingo Friendship Award. Rose, Pat Bunch, Carmichael, who "You Haven't Heard The Last Of Me "; Eric Kaz; Kaz, SBK Warner-Ta merlane died in 1981, wrote Beckham, who built Combine Music into April. "I'm Tired "-(second award) A.R. "Buck" Peddy, Ray Price, Mel such standards as "Stardust," "Georgia one of Nashville's giant publishing "You're My First Lady "; Mac McAnally; Beginner. Tillis; Cedarwood On My Mind," "Heart And Soul," and "Ole houses, was recently the recipient of the "You're Never Too Old For Young Love "; Rick Giles, Frank "It Takes A Little Rain (To Make Love Grow)" -Steve Dean, James Buttermilk Sky." Myers; EEG (Evergreen Entertainment), Morganactive, You And I. Dean Hicks, Roger Murrah; Tom Collins Nashville Entertainment Assn.'s Masters "You're The Power "; Craig Bickhardt, F.C. Collins; Colgems - "Julia" Jarvis; Tree ASCAP's Connie Bradley -John accepted the Award. Free has been active in Washing- EM I. "The Last One To Know Matraca Berg; Tapadero "- honor on Carmichael's behalf. ton, D.C., on behalf of songwriter and "You've Got The Touch "; John Jarrard, Lisa Palas, Will "Let The Music Lift You Up" -Eddie Setser; Warner -Tamerlane Seals, whose compositions include publishing rights. Robinson; Alabama Band. "Little Sister"-Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman; Elvis Presley "Your Love"; Tommy Rocco; Bibo.

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