Madonna, Mellencamp, Page & Plant Songwriters Hall of Fame nominees

The nominations will be announced tomorrow for possible induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame but the Hall leaked a list to the AP of the possible honorees.

The Songwriters Hall of Fame breaks their nominees into two separate lists, Performer/Songwriter and Non-Performing Songwriters with voting members of the organization able to select two nominees from the performer and three from the non-performing group. Ballots are due in on December 16 with the inductees announced shortly thereafter.

The nominees in the Performer/Songwriter category:

•Harry Wayne Casey
◦Get Down Tonight
◦That's The Way (I Like It)
◦I'm Your Boogie Man

•Ray Davies
◦You Really Got Me
◦Sunny Afternoon
◦Lola

•Donovan
◦Sunshine Superman
◦Season of the Witch
◦Mellow Yellow

•Vince Gill
◦Whenever I Call Your Name
◦I Still Believe in You
◦Go Rest High On That Mountain

•Cyndi Lauper
◦Time After Time
◦Change of Heart
◦She Bop

•Madonna
◦Into the Groove
◦Like a Prayer
◦Vogue

•John Mellencamp
◦Jack & Diane
◦Pink House
◦Small Town

•Jimmy Page and Robert Plant
◦Whole Lotta Love
◦Rock and Roll
◦Stairway to Heaven

•Linda Perry
◦Get the Party Started
◦Beautiful
◦What's Up?

•Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards
◦Le Freak
◦We Are Family
◦Good Times

•Sade
◦Smooth Operator
◦The Sweetest Taboo
◦No Ordinary Love

•Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam)
◦Peace Train
◦Wild World
◦The First Cut is the Deepest

•Ann and Nancy Wilson
◦Magic Man
◦Barracuda
◦Never

The nominees in the Non-Performing Songwriter category:

•Bill Anderson
◦City Lights
◦Once a Day
◦Still

•Bobby Braddock
◦D-I-V-O-R-C-E
◦Golden Ring
◦He Stopped Loving Her Today

•Graham Gouldman
◦For Your Love
◦Bus Stop
◦I'm Not in Love

•Hugo (Creatore) & Luigi (Peretti)
◦Can't Help Falling in Love
◦The Lion Sleeps Tonight
◦Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again

•Mark James
◦Hooked on a Feeling
◦Suspicious Minds
◦Always on My Mind

•Sandy Linzer & Denny Randell
◦A Lover's Concerto
◦Let's Hang On
◦Working My Way Back to You

•Tony MacAulay
◦Build Me Up Buttercup
◦(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep
◦Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)

•Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham
◦I'm Your Puppet
◦Sweet Inspiration
◦Cry Like a Baby

•Don Robertson
◦Please Help Me, I'm Falling
◦I Really Don't Want to Know
◦Born to Be With You

•William "Mickey" Stevenson
◦Dancing in the Street
◦Devil With the Blue Dress On
◦What Becomes of the Broken Hearted

•Jim Weatherly
◦Midnight Train to Georgia
◦Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)
◦Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me

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