Classic hits like “Jungle Boogie,” “Hollywood Swinging,” “Celebration,” “Get Down on It” and “Joanna” made for a novel and immensely successful pop-funk groove in the 1970s and ‘80s George Brown, Inducted 2018

Epitomized Jerome Kern's famous maxim that "Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music." Irving Berlin, Inducted 1970

Collaborations with Sammy Cahn and Johnny Burke produced string of landmark hits Jimmy Van Heusen, Inducted 1971

Wrote "Groovy Kind of Love" while at "Fame" high school in NYC Carole Sager, Inducted 1987