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Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame
1990 - 1999

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The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame began in 1970 as an enterprise of the fledgling Nashville Songwriters Association. A credentials committee unanimously selected a charter class of 21 writers, who were inducted on Monday, October 12, during the first Hall of Fame Banquet and Ceremony held at the Holiday Inn-Vanderbilt. 

Sixteen years later, the Hall of Fame split from the songwriters association to form its own entity. The International Songwriters Foundation (ISF) was chartered on April 11, 1986, as a new organization to oversee the Hall of Fame. On March 2, 1992, the ISF changed its name to the Nashville Songwriters Foundation (NSF), then on Dec. 5, 2006, to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Foundation (NaSHOF).

Throughout its 40-plus years of existence, the Hall of Fame remained a virtual entity with no permanent location to call home until May 19, 2013, when NaSHOF realized a decades-long dream with the opening of its Hall of Fame Gallery inside the newly constructed Music City Center (MCC), Nashville’s 1.2 million-square-foot convention center. Located in downtown Nashville (directly across the street from the Country Music Hall of Fame and Bridgestone Arena) the gallery features displays of songwriting memorabilia, as well as interactive touch screens that allow visitors to access audio, video and other digital information about the history of Nashville songwriting and members of the Hall of Fame. 
 To find out more about each member, click  on their name to be taken to their official page in the Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame website. 
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Sue Brewer
​Born: March 18, 1933
Died: June 1, 1981
Hometown: 
Dardanelle, Arkansas
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Ted Harris
Born: August 2, 1937
Died: November 22, 2015
Hometown: Lakeland, Florida
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Jimmy Webb
Born: August 15, 1946

Hometown: 
Elk City, Oklahoma
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Charlie Black
Born: November 23, 1949
Died: April 23, 2021
Hometown: 
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Chevelry, Maryland
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Sonny Curtis
Born: 
May 9, 1937

Hometown: Meadow, Texas
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Max D Barnes
Born:
July 24, 1936
Died: January 11, 2004
Hometown: 
Hardscratch, Iowa
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Wayland Holyfield
Born:  March 15, 1942

Hometown:
Malletttown, Arkansas
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Red Lane
Born: February 9, 1939 -
Died: July 1, 2015
Hometown: Zona, Louisiana
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​Don Schlitz
Born: August 29, 1952
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Hometown:

Durham, North Carolina
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​Conway Twitty
Born: September 1, 1933
Died: June 5, 1993
Hometown:
Friar's Point, Missouri


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Jerry Foster
(Foster & Rice]
​Born: November 19, 1935 
Hometown: 

Tallapoosa, Missouri
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Buddy Holly
Born: September 7, 2026
Died:  February 3, 1959
Hometown: Lubbock, Texas

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Richard Leigh
Born: May 26, 1951

Hometown: 
Washington, D.C.
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Bill Rice
(Foster & Rice]
Born: April 19, 1939
Died: October 28, 2023
Hometown: Datto, Arkansas

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Bobby Russell
Born: April 19, 1941
Died: November 19, 1992
Hometown:
Nashville, Tennessee

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Waylon Jennings
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Born:
June 15, 1937
Died: February 13, 2002
Hometown:
​Littlefield, Texas
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Dickey Lee
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Born:
September 21, 1936

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Hometown:
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Memphis, Tennessee

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Dave Loggins
Born
: November 21, 1936


Hometown
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Mountain City, Tennessee
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Jerry Foster
(Foster & Rice]
​Born: November 19, 1935 
Hometown: 

Tallapoosa, Missouri
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Kenny O'Dell
Born:
June 21, 1944
Died:  March 27, 2018
Hometown: 
Antlers, Oklahoma
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Buck Owens
Born:
August 12, 1929
Died: March 26, 2006
Hometown: 
Sherman, Texas
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Norro Wilson
Born: April 4, 1938
Died: June 8, 2017
Hometown:
Scottsville, Kentucky
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Wayne Carson
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Born:
May 31, 1943
Died: July 20, 2015
Hometown: 
​Denver, Colorado
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Roger Cook
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Born:
 August 19, 1940

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Hometown: 
Bristol, England
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Hank Thompson
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Born
: September 3, 1925
Died: November 6, 2007


Hometown: Waco, Texas
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Merle Kilgore
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Born:
August 9, 1934
Died: February 6, 2005
Hometown:
Chickasha, Oklahoma
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Eddie Rabbit​
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Born: November 27, 1941
Died: May 7, 1998
Hometown:
Brooklyn, New York
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Kent Robbins
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Born
: April 23, 1947
Died: December 27, 1997

Hometown:
Mayfield, Kentucky
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Tommy Collins
​​Born: September 28, 1930
Died: March 14, 2000
Hometown:
Bethany, Oklahoma
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Wayne Kemp
Born:
June 1, 1941
Died: March 9, 2015
Hometown:
Greenwood, Arkansas
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Doodle Owens
Born: 
November 28, 1930
Died: October 4, 1999
Hometown: 
Waco, Texas
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Glen Sutton
Born:
September 28, 1937
Died: April 17, 2007
Hometown:
 Hodge, Louisiana
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