Forever in Your Love, Between Heaven and Here, The Promise, Moment of Forever,Stranger, Breakdown, Shipwrecked in the 80's, Prisoner, The Hawk, Killing Time, Living Legend, Anthem 84, Casey's Last Ride, StarCrossed, Never Gonna Be The Same

#3..PAUL SIMON: Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Graceland, Homeward Bound, I Am a Rock, Still Crazy After All These Years, America, Slip Sliding Away, Dangling Conversation, Old Friends, Sounds of Silence, Kodachrome, Sunny Day, 50 ways to Leave Your Lover, Something So Right, One Man's Ceiling, Patterns, Lazy Shade of Winter

#5..BARRY GIBB. Sacred Trust, Wedding Day,How Deep Is Your Love, Immortality,First of May, and Evening Star(below) are his best. Then there are the MANY hits.

#6..BRIAN WILSON. God Only Knows is my favorite, but Brian wrote most of the Beach Boys songs, occasionally in collab. He wrote not only melodies, but intricate harmonies, sometimes modelled after the Mills Brothers.

#8..Though half of a major songwriting team with John Lennon, McCartney has done enough since going solo to justify his place alone.MAYBE I'M AMAZED, SINGALONG JUNK, EVERY NIGHT,SILLY LOVE SONGS, WANDERLUST,ANOTHER DAY, THIS ONE, WINGS OF A NIGHTINGALE, MULL OF KINTYRE

#10. Two fine songwriters for Don. WAYLAND HOLYFIELD: Some Broken Hearts Never Mend, Till The Rivers All Run Dry, A Winner In You(and Can I Have This Dance for Anne Murray). BOB McDILL:Amanda, Rodeo Man, Good Ol'Boys, It Must Be Love(and Whatever Gets You Thru The Night..for Waylon)

Best not here. They include: Wintery Feeling, Humour Me, My Songbird, You Remember Me, It's a Good Thing.

So did RICHARD CARPENTER: I Need To Be In Love, Goodbye to Love, Yesterday Once More, Top of the World.

IRVING BERLIN: God Bless America, White Christmas and Blue Skies(both originally by Bing),No Biz Like Show Biz, Puttin'On The Ritz, Always, Lazy River, Stardust, Anything You Can Do, Cheek to Cheek

Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry made the best recording of MY ELUSIVE DREAMS, written by CURLY PUTMAN. His other excellent song was GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME.

Merle wrote: Big City, Are The Good Times Really Over?, Kern River, Today I Started Loving You Again, Silver Wings, Seashores Of Old Mexico

WAYLON JENNINGS. His best compositions are on this vinyl LP(not book pictured here): I'm Living Proof, Stars in My Crown, Rough and Rowdy Days, Turn It All Around, You'll Never Get Texas Outa Me,and later(for a Highwayman CD): I Do Believe

IAN TYSON: Four Strong Winds, Someday Soon, Barney, Love Can Bless The Soul, My Greatest Blessing, What About Me? HANK COCHRAN: I Fall To Pieces, Make The World Go Away, Love Makes Fools Of Us All, Can I Sleep In Your Arms?

KENNY ROGERS wrote two great songs. OLD MAN IN OUR TOWN on this very good album, and STRANGER IN MY PLACE(the best recording of which was done by Anne Murray).

She gets onto the list for two GREAT songs, both recorded by Willie Nelson:IT'LL COME TO ME,& AIN'T NECESSARILY SO. Co-wrote Willie's NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT IT NOW,Faith Hill's THIS KISS, and BEYOND THE BLUE(recorded by Emmylou and Patty Griffen)

I'm not largely familiar with his writing, but I know he wrote two fab songs recorded by Waylon Jennings: BILLY, and HANGIN' ON. Then there was the classic Rainy Night in Georgia(by Brook Benton).

First Taste of Texas(which he recorded),Last Cowboy Song(for Highwayman), and Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys(Waylon and Willie) and others......HANK SNOW wrote I Been Everywhere and I'm Moving On.

Adios, Highwayman, Silver Stallion,MacArthur Park, By The Time I Get To Phoenix, Galveston, Wichita Lineman,Didn't We, Up Up And Away and yes, Rhinestone Cowboy

Wrote one of my faves: TILL I GAIN CONTROL AGAIN(best by Emmylou Harris,Crystal Gayle, Willie Nelson,Willie with Kimmie Rhodes, Van Morrison AND: Shame On The Moon,Ashes By Now, Leaving Louisiana, Queen of Hearts.

Beautiful Dreamer, My Old Kentucky Home,O Suzanna,Camptown Races, Swannee River.Slip in BILLY JOEL: These Are The Days,You're My Home, My Life, She's Got a Way and DONOVAN(Leich):Catch The Wind,Guenivere, Season of the Witch, Lullaby of Spring, Celeste, Widow With Shawl