Dorff’s songs have charted in five successive decades--with No. 1 hits spanning across four decades Steve Dorff, Inducted 2018

He was named a BMI Icon in 2012 Tom T. Hall, Inducted 2019

Honored with SHOF’s highest accolade, the Johnny Mercer Award, in 1999, and National Medal of the Arts in 1996 Stephen Sondheim, Inducted 1975

Wrote 2013 SHOF Towering Song "A Change Is Gonna Come," as well as "Wonderful World" and "Twistin' the Night Away" Sam Cooke, Inducted 1987