Steely Dan, Blondie, Public Enemy, R.E.M, Timbaland and the man who wrote bubblegum classics “Build Me Up Buttercup” and “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)” are among the nominees for the 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Also included on the roster of nominees are, among others, Bread frontman David Gates, Tracy Chapman, the Guess Who’s Randy Bachman & Burton Cummings, Kenny Loggins, Heart and Roger Nichols, who composed the music for such Carpenters hits as “We’ve Only Just Begun” and “Rainy Days and Mondays.”
See the complete list of nominees below.
According to the Songwriters Hall of Fame, 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 Et on December 27, 2023 to turn in ballots, with their choices of three nominees from a songwriter and three from performing songwriter categories.
Also included on the roster of nominees are, among others, Bread frontman David Gates, Tracy Chapman, the Guess Who’s Randy Bachman & Burton Cummings, Kenny Loggins, Heart and Roger Nichols, who composed the music for such Carpenters hits as “We’ve Only Just Begun” and “Rainy Days and Mondays.”
See the complete list of nominees below.
According to the Songwriters Hall of Fame, 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 Et on December 27, 2023 to turn in ballots, with their choices of three nominees from a songwriter and three from performing songwriter categories.
- 11/21/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
“When I first saw you guys, people didn’t expect what you were going to bring, these little white brothers from Boston!” It’s a humid Sunday afternoon in Harlem, and the Apollo Theater’s longtime historian — Billy Mitchell, a.k.a. Mr. Apollo — is reminiscing backstage with New Kids on the Block’s Donnie Wahlberg. “But, brother, you killed it,” Mitchell continues. “The place went crazy. The place went crazy, man! I still have a picture of you guys in my home.”
Before they became the world’s biggest boy band,...
Before they became the world’s biggest boy band,...
- 10/10/2018
- by Rebecca Wallwork
- Rollingstone.com
Wood Harris (The Wire, The Breaks), Michael Rapaport (Boston Public, Justified), Real Husbands of Hollywood‘s Faizon Love and Duane Martin, singer/songwriter Tank and Bre-z (Empire) have joined the cast of Bet’s three-part miniseries New Edition: The Movie. Harris will play Brooke Payne, Rapaport is Gary Evans, Love will portray Maurice Starr, Martin is Louil Silas, Tank will play Jheryl Busby and Bre-z is Peanut Bell. They join previously announced cast Bryshere Y. Gray…...
- 5/19/2016
- Deadline TV
Courtesy of Crypton Future Media Vocaloid and global singing star Miku Hatsune
Back at the dawn of the Nineties, platinum-minting producer Maurice Starr made an all-too-candid boast to a reporter for Entertainment Weekly: “I think I can make anybody a star.”
It was hard to argue with him at the time: He’d ignited a pair of pop supernovas — the boy band New Edition, and their color-inverted clones New Kids on the Block — and he was hardly the first Svengali...
Back at the dawn of the Nineties, platinum-minting producer Maurice Starr made an all-too-candid boast to a reporter for Entertainment Weekly: “I think I can make anybody a star.”
It was hard to argue with him at the time: He’d ignited a pair of pop supernovas — the boy band New Edition, and their color-inverted clones New Kids on the Block — and he was hardly the first Svengali...
- 11/11/2011
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Producer says he would like to help Biebs channel New Kids on the Block, New Edition and Kelly Rowland.
By Rob Markman
Justin Bieber
Photo: Christopher Polk/ Getty Images
Multi-platinum producer Jim Jonsin has some interesting plans for when he gets in the studio with Justin Bieber. No, he won't be coupling the teen-pop sensation with B.o.B, but rather he will try to capture the vibe of NKotB.
"For Bieber, I think I want to reach back to New Edition, those days," Jonsin initially said before referencing another 1980s Boston-bred boy band. "I want to try to do something like that — 'Please Don't Go Girl,' New Kids on the Block — because the girls would go crazy. Maybe not that song, but something that feels like that: little bit of soul, R&B, but pop as well."
While the track pre-dates the 17-year-old Bieber by about four years,...
By Rob Markman
Justin Bieber
Photo: Christopher Polk/ Getty Images
Multi-platinum producer Jim Jonsin has some interesting plans for when he gets in the studio with Justin Bieber. No, he won't be coupling the teen-pop sensation with B.o.B, but rather he will try to capture the vibe of NKotB.
"For Bieber, I think I want to reach back to New Edition, those days," Jonsin initially said before referencing another 1980s Boston-bred boy band. "I want to try to do something like that — 'Please Don't Go Girl,' New Kids on the Block — because the girls would go crazy. Maybe not that song, but something that feels like that: little bit of soul, R&B, but pop as well."
While the track pre-dates the 17-year-old Bieber by about four years,...
- 6/30/2011
- MTV Music News
When I was growing up, in the era of Donny Osmond and The Partridge Family, teen idols, with their dimples and blow-dried ’70s-shag haircuts, their strategically unbuttoned hippie polyester shirts, were often the objects of ridicule, but no one ever bothered to get too hot and bothered about them (except, of course, for the 14-year-old girls who consumed every morsel of their favorite stars’ chipmunk-cheeked lives in Tiger Beat magazine). Teen idols, it was understood, served a basic cultural function, which was to gently tease out the consumer-minded romantic/erotic appetites of girls who were still virgins. As pinups, they...
- 2/12/2011
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW - Inside Movies
When I was growing up, in the era of Donny Osmond and The Partridge Family, teen idols, with their dimples and blow-dried ’70s-shag haircuts, their strategically unbuttoned hippie polyester shirts, were often the objects of ridicule, but no one ever bothered to get too hot and bothered about them (except, of course, for the 14-year-old girls who consumed every morsel of their favorite stars’ chipmunk-cheeked lives in Tiger Beat magazine). Teen idols, it was understood, served a basic cultural function, which was to gently tease out the consumer-minded romantic/erotic appetites of girls who were still virgins. As pinups, they...
- 2/12/2011
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW - Inside Movies
Plus: Masspike Miles gets a boost from Rick Ross, in Mixtape Daily.
By Shaheem Reid
Kanye West and Lady Gaga
Photo: MTV News
Fire Starter: Bound To Blow
Masspike Miles had girls screaming way before he got his first tattoo or signed with Rick Ross' Maybach Music Group. The Roxbury, Massachusetts native used to get attention as a chubby kid during his stint in a short-lived R&B group in the early '90s.
"The whole thing is, I was also in a group called Perfect Gentlemen under Maurice Starr, who started New Edition and New Kids on the Block," Miles revealed. "So I was developed under Maurice Starr at a young age as well. I was on Warner Brothers at 11, 12 years old. I already had a taste of what was to come and what I had to deal with."
Masspike (born Miles Wheeler) was the youngest member of...
By Shaheem Reid
Kanye West and Lady Gaga
Photo: MTV News
Fire Starter: Bound To Blow
Masspike Miles had girls screaming way before he got his first tattoo or signed with Rick Ross' Maybach Music Group. The Roxbury, Massachusetts native used to get attention as a chubby kid during his stint in a short-lived R&B group in the early '90s.
"The whole thing is, I was also in a group called Perfect Gentlemen under Maurice Starr, who started New Edition and New Kids on the Block," Miles revealed. "So I was developed under Maurice Starr at a young age as well. I was on Warner Brothers at 11, 12 years old. I already had a taste of what was to come and what I had to deal with."
Masspike (born Miles Wheeler) was the youngest member of...
- 5/28/2009
- MTV Music News
Plus: Masspike Miles gets a boost from Rick Ross, in Mixtape Daily.
By Shaheem Reid
Kanye West and Lady Gaga
Photo: MTV News
Fire Starter: Bound To Blow
Masspike Miles had girls screaming way before he got his first tattoo or signed with Rick Ross' Maybach Music Group. The Roxbury, Massachusetts native used to get attention as a chubby kid during his stint in a short-lived R&B group in the early '90s.
"The whole thing is, I was also in a group called Perfect Gentlemen under Maurice Starr, who started New Edition and New Kids on the Block," Miles revealed. "So I was developed under Maurice Starr at a young age as well. I was on Warner Brothers at 11, 12 years old. I already had a taste of what was to come and what I had to deal with."
Masspike (born Miles Wheeler) was the youngest member of...
By Shaheem Reid
Kanye West and Lady Gaga
Photo: MTV News
Fire Starter: Bound To Blow
Masspike Miles had girls screaming way before he got his first tattoo or signed with Rick Ross' Maybach Music Group. The Roxbury, Massachusetts native used to get attention as a chubby kid during his stint in a short-lived R&B group in the early '90s.
"The whole thing is, I was also in a group called Perfect Gentlemen under Maurice Starr, who started New Edition and New Kids on the Block," Miles revealed. "So I was developed under Maurice Starr at a young age as well. I was on Warner Brothers at 11, 12 years old. I already had a taste of what was to come and what I had to deal with."
Masspike (born Miles Wheeler) was the youngest member of...
- 5/28/2009
- MTV Music News
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