Key songs in the Ahrens / Flaherty catalog include: Scores for * Once On This Island * Ragtime * Seussical * Anastasia * My Favorite YearĪfter Klymaxx member Joyce Irby signed Dallas Austin to her Dive One Entertainment company in 1988 as a songwriter and producer, he produced the first Boyzz II Men and TLC projects, winning his first Grammy for the latter group’s album Crazy, Sexy, Cool, for which he wrote the chart-topping lead single “Creep.” Other key songwriting credits in Austin’s catalog include TLC’s “Unpretty,” Blue Cantrell’s “Hit ‘Em Up Style (Oops!),” Pink’s “Don’t Let Me Get Me” and “Just Like a Pill,” and Gwen Stefani’s 2004 single “Cool,” and he’s also worked with the likes of Aretha Franklin, George Clinton, Michael Jackson, Madonna, After 7, Erick Sermon, Johnny Gill, Bjork, Brand New Heavies, Fishbone, Grace Jones, Tricky and Usher. Lyricist Ahrens, who has won the Betty Comden Lilly Award for lyrics, and composer Flaherty, who has been commissioned by venues including Carnegie Hall and the Guggenheim Museum, also work with others and individually, and have jointly received the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre, and in 2015, induction into the Theater Hall of Fame. Their other musicals include My Favorite Year, Seussical, A Man of No Importance, Dessa Rose, The Glorious Ones, Rocky, Little Dancer, Once on This Island, and Anastasia (having received two Academy Award nominations for the music to the 1997 animated musical film Anastasia, on which it was based). The songwriting team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty first broached the New York theater scene in 1988 with the comic musical Lucky Stiff, then went on to garner Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards, along with two Grammy nominations, for their score of the hit 1998 Broadway musical Ragtime. (* Note that the five songs listed after each nominee are merely a representative sample of their extensive catalogs) Eligible voting members will have until midnight on Decemto turn in ballots with their choices of three nominees from a songwriter and three from a performing songwriter category.īios and photos of the 2019 nominees can be found below: To qualify for induction, a songwriter must be a published writer for a minimum of 20 years with a notable catalog of hit songs. The Songwriters Hall of Fame is dedicated to recognizing the work and lives of those composers and lyricists who create music around the world. New York, NY – Novem- The Songwriters Hall of Fame has announced its slate of nominees to be elected for induction at its Annual Induction & Awards Gala on June 13, 2019, in New York City. Russell Brown/Irwin Levine (d), Lynn Ahrens / Stephen Flaherty and Dan Penn / Spooner Oldham.
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(fourth row) Jimmy Cliff, Dean Dillon, Jerry Fuller and Jack Tempchin, (fifth row) Tom T. Sloan / Steve Barri, Jeff Lynne, Missy Elliott, Dean Pitchford / Michael Gore and Roger Nichols.
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(second row) Mariah Carey, Mike Love, Vince Gill, Tommy James and John Prine. (left to right, first row) Cat Stevens (p/k/a Yusuf Islam), Annie Lennox / Dave Stewart, Lloyd Price, Chrissie Hynde and Dallas Austin.