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6th Annual Great American Song Contest
HONOR AWARDS
The quality of songwriting in this year's Great American Song Contest was often impressive and at times astonishing.
According to our judges, exceptional songs were discovered in every category. In fact, more great songs were found in 2004 than in any other year in the history of the event.
We proudly honor the following songwriters who scored near the top of their respective categories.NOTE: If you're listed as an Honor Award winner, you may display this Great American Song Honor Award banner on your website. Or you may also use it as an an impressive addition to your publicity & media materials!
Pop/Adult Contemporary
"Unexpectedly" — Michele Krystyna Williams / Chele (Houston TX)
"New Plateau" — Gary Fitch & John Perrault (Indianapolis IN)
"Nothing Could Be Easier" — Keith J. Reagan (Eureka CA)
"The Revolution Begins" — Paul Iwancio (Baltimore MD)
"Clinging Like A Leaf" — Alaria Taylor (Brookfield WI)
"Carried Away" — Kelda Nelson (Los Angeles CA)
"In The Quiet" — Olivia Greer (New York)
"Yahoo Girl" — Steve Davis (Tacoma WA)
"Giraffe" — Alex Khazanov (Rochester NY)
"No Difference" — Mara Levi (Washington DC)
"Mirror, Mirror" — Connie Hutto (Nashville TN)
"Someday" — Jeremy J. Rooney (Waterford MI)
"High Away" — Rick & Roger Gehrke (Chattanooga TN)
"Wonderful Thing " — J. Scott Bergman (Los Angels CA)
"What's A Girl Gotta Do?" — Jamie-Lynn Noon (Danville CA)
"Red Letter" — Jenevieve Donaldson (Wedderburn AUSTRALIA)
"Why Should I Believe You" — Jenna Drey & Kevin Churko
(Miami FL)
"Fake Love & Cheap Romance" — George Tizzard
(Ringwood UK)
"Luv B4 U" — Pete Cugno (Toronto CANADA)
"Last Impressions" — Scott Vincent (Denville NJ)
"As We Speak" — James Palmer (Mansfield LA)
"Cry Over You" — Ray Williams (High Wycombe UK)
"Kite High!" — Sacha Sacket (Calabas CA)
"Counting On You" — Malcom Singleton (Tuscumbia AL)
"Juliet" — Neal Gomberg (Chappaqua NY)
"Covergirl" — Chris Commisso (Kingman AZ)
"A Little Bit of Heaven" — Byron Troy Reynolds (Hollywood CA)
"Queen of the Underground" — Michael Joy (Berkeley CA)
"Loves Me Some You" — Charles M. Lee (Harrisburg PA)
"Guys Like You" — David Christmas (Meopham Kent UK)
"Little Ray of Sunshine" — Chris Turner (Torremolinos SPAIN)
"Yesterday's Heartache" — Alex Arguello (Aromas CA)
"You Stole Their Hearts" — Isam Khoury (San Diego CA)
"Rescue" — Liquid Blue (Encinitas CA)
"Highest Thoughts" — Tony Young
(Coldstream SCOTLAND)
"The Lights " — Brian Flahive (Edgewater NJ)
"Tears of Love" — Michael B. Newton (Tooely UT)
"Breathe" — Joanie Leeds (New York)
"Soul" — Shayan Italia (London UK)
"If I Fall" — Michelle Citrin (Fair Lawn NJ)
"Nevada" — Carla Ryder (Jamaica Plain MA)
"Sweet Sorrow" — Kevin Zarnett & The Complements
(Richmond Hill ON Canada)
"You Take My Breath Away" — Anders Holte (Munich Germany)
"Pray For Rain" — Owen Thomas & Lily-May Young (London UK)"Strife" — Ariana (Winter Springs FL)
"Whirlwind" — Kate Salisbury (Bristol UK)
"At The Time" — Brian Roberts (Key West FL)
"Sentimental Idiot" — Del Gado (Montreal Canada)
"Let It Ride" — Stephanie K. (Bloomfield Hills MI)
"Friends" — Jeffrey Todd Keel (New Smyrna Beach FL)
"Funk & Roll" — Bazyle Fonttenaus (Corona CA)
"The Reason Why" — Eliot Popkin (Los Angeles CA)
"Road of Diamonds" — Blake Ian (Plainview NY)
"Hudson River Blue" — Karen Hudson (New York)<>
Rock/Alt
"(Perfect Song For A) Plane Crash " — James Pequignot (Macedonia OH)
"The System" — Natalia Bortolotti & Scott Smith (San Francisco, CA)
"Come To My Seminar" — Count Dante aka Robert Calhoun
(San Francisco CA)
"Unhappy Hour" — Greg Roth / Blankety Blank (Loganville GA)
"Wine & Roses" — Howie Statland & NYCSmoke (New York)
"Threaded" — Veronica Lasher, Marc Killian & Joe Paris
(Wilmington NC)
"Letting A Good Man Go" — Gary Selness (Seattle WA)
"Goodbye" — Andre Mistier & Mike Rogers (New York)
"Blood & Feathers" — David Levin (Minneapolis MN)
"One Good Reason" — Ian C. Bouras (New York)
"Photograph" — Alex Woodard (San Diego CA
"One-Eyed Jack" — Mike Grill (Urbana IL)
"Didn't Get It" — Ken Collier (Ingray TX)
"Reach Out" — Daniel Lees (London UK)
"One Day" — Mike Moran (Bellaire MI)
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Acoustic/Folk
"Finest of Years" — Willie McCulloch (Brigewater CT)
"Sea Changes" — Isabella Perelman (Woodbriege VA)
"Jungle Beat" — Patricia Lou Harris (Klamath Falls OR)
"Morning Somewhere" — Shelley Miller (Chicago IL)
"Main Attraction" — Jen Cass (Bay City MI)
"Butte" — Elisa Korenne (New York)
"Everything" — Ashleigh Flynn (Portland OR)
"Life's Been Kind" — Tracy Stark (Jersey City)
"Note To Self" — Mark Sturdevant (Concord CA)
"My Rebel Soldier" — Erik Rivenes (St. Paul MN)
"This House Is Burning" — Ellen Ryan (Rockville MD)
& Dan Grove (Reston VA)
"Maker of Marimbas" — Meg Tennant (Vancouver CANADA)
"Oceanographer Calypso" — Stephanie Voss (Los Angeles CA)
"Wild Dreams of Shy Boys" — Madeleine Z. Mercier (Mandy Mercier) (Austin TX)"Yosemite" — Rain Perry (Ojay CA)
"The Granny Song" — Jan Seides (Austin TX)
"The Quilt Song" — David LaFleur (Vienna VA)
"October Moon" — Douglas W. Harper (Beckley WV)
"Bowl of Rasin Bran" — Joni Laurence (Champaign IL)
"Ghosts of Christmas Past" — Scott Jeffrey (Ames IA)
"Trigger My Redemption" — Eric Bannan (Pittsboro NC)
"Art Bell, Me, & Jesus Christ" — Peter Tory (Wind Lake WI)
"Short Road We're On" — David McAdams (Lummi Island WA)
"The Broken Boy" — R. Emmit Bresnahan (St. Stephen NB Canada)
"I Was Raised On Sha-la-la" — Lonnie Ray Fowler (Eatonton GA)
"Between Orion & the Bear" — Raven Sadhaka (West Roxbury MA)
"Golden Time" / "Summer Doesn’t Have a Reason" / "Transistor Radio" — Jud Caswell (Brunswick ME)"Snoopy" & "Treading Water" — Stephen Krause (Mountain View CA)
"Lost Love" & "Bad Weather" — Heather Lev (New York)
"The Village Is Haunted" — Heather Lev (New York NY)
"Edward Allen" — Mary DeQuattro (Marlborough MA)
"Her Grey City" — Josh Boughey (Watertown MA)
"Turn Back Time" — Tina Rockett (Universal TX)
"Invisible Bone" — Patti Witten (Ithaca NY)
"Better Already" — Ben Sands (Newry UK)
"Fairytale" — Andy Shelton (Lehi UT)
"Jean" — Terry Gonda (Royal Oak MI)"The Palm Tree" — Steve Varney (Littleton CO)
"Into the Sun" — Phillip Bird (Headley Hampshire UK)
"From the Towers" — Mysha Caruso (Kapa-Au HI)
"Lost In the World" — Maclin Horton (Fairhope AL)
"North of the Border" — Richard Thorne (New York NY)
"Dora's Eyes" — Shawn Tester (Lac Du Bonnet MB Canada)"
Just Plain Jane" — Jody William Smith (Sherman Oaks CA)"
Little Diamond Ring" — Joe Britt Ehresman (La Marque TX)
"This Weather" — Jenn TarantoAndy Shelton (Warwick NY)
"George Washington Slept Here" — Matt Sherwin (Brooklyn NY)
"Spring Will Come" — Alan Lauris / John Coughlan (Torquay Devon UK)"Meeting Maighread" / "This Winter Night" / "Andy's Wedding"
& "Bittersweet"— Jud Caswell (Brunswick ME)
"I Fell In Love With You" — Karen Mitchell (Prahran AUSTRALIA)
"Any Kind Of Love" — Linda Sharar & Gregg Cagno (Andover MA)
"The Fairy Princess" — Jose F. Helu Jr. (Ridgefield CT)
"Hold On To You" — Dave DeMonki (Destin FL)
"Heaven Here On Earth" — Terry Kitchen (Roslindale MA)
"Meadow Of Light" — Glenn Jochum (Mattituck NY)
"West Coast Storm" — Scott Norris (Victoria BC)
"Where Were You" — Mrs. Emer Fox (Dublin Ireland)
"Fall Down As the Rain" — Joe Crookston (Seattle WA)
"Nights To Remember" — Abbie Gardner (Stony Point NY)
"Princess Sophia" — Daniel Halen (Whitehorse CANADA)
"Holding Back Alice" — Collin Watkins (Winchest KY)
"Not That Easy" — Greg Affeldt (Woodbridge VA)
"Runaway Train" — Bryan Clark (Dallas TX)
"Headless" — David Keller (Hatfield MA)
"Pardon Me" — Theresa Demarest (Portland OR)
"Back Home" — Erin Sidney & Jeremiah Stocking
(North Thetford VT)
"Still Crazy (In Love With You)" — John Tumminello &
John Berenzy (New York)<>
NOTE: If you're listed as an Honor Award winner, you may display this Great American Song Honor Award banner on your website. Or you may also use it as an an impressive addition to your publicity & media materials!
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Country
"I Love Them Rhythm & Brews" — Antoinette Nesbitt (Marshall TX)
"Frogs Didn't Have Guns" — Douglas F. Brzak (Farmington Hills MI)
"There's Always Something" — Matt Frazier (Pasadena CA)
"Prison Break" — Dennis M. Fallon (State College PA)
"Taxidermy" — Shana Hodges & Mickey Nelson (Roanche VA)
"Rodeo This" — Roy Robinson & Shawn Pabst (Comanche TX)
"Lonely End of the Bar" — Terry Markham (El Cajon CA)
"Sunshine Intruder" — Roy O'Neil Jr. (Waterbury CT)
"His Eyes" — Jorie Raine (Stevenson Ranch CA)
"Love Her Every Night" — Jeff Randall (Imlay City MI)
"Friendly Advice" — Jenny Manley (New Hope AL)
"God Winks" — Michele Arrigo (Hendersonville NC)
"Little Footprints" — Steve Fox (Nashville TN)
"Living Large" — Doug Furlong (Eugene OR)
"Vermillion" — Gary Fitch (Indianapolis IN)
"This Isn't What I Ordered" — Alaria Taylor (Brookfield WI)
"Unknown Country Star" — Carey D. Weber (Granger TX)
"Bad Hair Day" — Debbie Pascarella (Middletown NJ)
"Play For Me" — Stuart Kabak (Swan Lake NY)
"Little Ones" — Matt Bernier (Dartmouth MA)
"Beautiful" — Jamie Anderson (Durham NC)
"Pier Fishing" — R. B. Adams (Mobile AL)
"Cowboy On" — Aaron Cheney (Kent WA)
"Detroit Made" — Gary Rand (Allston MA)
"Beat Myself Up" — Joe Merrick (Hanson MA)
"Catfish Kind of Day" — Bill Conly (Ringgold LA)
"Whisky Kisses" — John Dindinger (Muscatine IA)
"Baby Don't Answer" — Bill Turner (Coeur de Alene ID)
"Except For the Weather" — Daniel Kensy (Richmond VA)
"My Arm Around My Dad"— Patrick Donoghue (Glenmore PA)" Don’t Mess With A Broken Heart" — Dolores O'Sullivan (Lancaster CA)
"Good Friends & Lovers & Stranger" — Dennis O'Donnell (Austin TX)
"Blues You Wont' Get Me Tonight" — Sue Reddy (Yalding Kent UK)
"I’m Only Stayin’ For the Dog" — Artie Weitz (Tarzana CA)
"When I'm Wiser" — Miriam Marston (Alexandria VA)
"Down In Mexico" — Rick Knowles (Monticello FL)
"Without Her" — Connie Fletcher (Richmond ME)
"The Pledge" — Leslie Mather (Los Angeles)
"Rock Away The Time" — Mary L. Sweeney (Potomac MD)
"The Ballad of Brian Lewis" — The Seams (Vancouver BC)
"Someday" — John Landry & Julian Austin (Nashville TN)<>
Christian/Gospel
"Gloria" — Lindsay J. Nesheim (Lake Stevens WA)
"All Things In Time" — James L. Davis (Melbourne FL)
"I Glorify the Name" — Joey Nicholson (Gainesville GA)
"Songs Of the Angels" — Mary Jane Gregan (Lafayette IN)
"Will Love Break Through?" — Neil Haydock (Chichester West Sussex UK)
"God Came God Saw God Cried" — David Goldman (Hudson NY)
"One God In Common" — Carlos St. Omer
(Castries St. Lucia West Indies)"Lost In the Crowd" — Mandy Bashore (Ovid MI)
"Let the Rains Come Again" — Phillip Duke (Oneonta AL)
"I Will Wait" — Sharon Dennis (Culpeper VA)
"Veiled" — Sarah Asher (Bronson MI)"Forgiven" — Robin Castaldi (Weddington NC)
"My Savior's Smile" — Talula Cartwright (Asheboro NC)
"King Of the Last Frontier" — Allen Green (West Columbia TX)
"The Long Road Back" — Michael Wells (Culver City CA)
"Let the Winds Blow" — Deb Rempel, Karen Jackman & Buddy Durrett (Wichita KS)<>
R&B/HipHop/Rap
"She Knows It" — Tyrone Houston & Erik Grant Bennett
(Norcross GA)
"I Just Wanna Know You" — La Shante Cooper
(Sunrise FL)
" Take It From Me" — Raymond Byabazaire
(Kampala UGANDA)
"I Know He Knows" — Jennifer Adan
(San Mateo CA)<>
NOTE: If you're listed as an Honor Award winner, you may display this Great American Song Honor Award banner on your website. Or you may also use it as an an impressive addition to your publicity & media materials!
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Special Music category
"What's In the Fridge" — Imagination Movers (New Orleans LA)
"Muscrat Rap" — Marla Lewis & Bob Stander (Wantagh NY)
"Best Friends" — Marla Lewis (Wantagh NY)
"Jungle Gym" — Danna Bananna / Dan Cohen (New York)
"Growin' Up Fast" — Debra Kimbrough (Kemah TX)
"Ice Cream Sundae" — Tom Gardner (Orangeburg NY)
"Under the Mistletoe" — Elizabeth Johnson (Los Angeles CA)
"Happy Freaking Birthday" — Lance R. Lindley (Fort Worth TX)"Tourismo" — Thomas W. Gross (Naples FL)
"Hay Fever" — Robert L. Shearer (Carlisle PA)
Prayer For America" — Victoria Parks (Columbus OH)
"Daddy's Little Girl" — William G. Winchester (Rensselaer NY)
"It's Not Christmas Without You" — Rob Meurer & Tom Adams
(Studio City CA)
"Cooked Up A Memory" — Linda Howard Hiserman (Oak Hill VA)
"An Angel Called Mama" — Ezechiel Palmieri (Buenos Aires Argentina)
"Jumpin’ Jive Jupiter " — Dr. Planet /Steve Hennessy (Bushkill PA)
"Something In the Air" — Mike Mitchell & Nick Hamilton (Evansville IN)
"If I Can’t Sing With You This Christmas " — Bev Barnett & Greg Newlon (Campbelll CA)"Take Me Back To High School" — Clifton Castelloe (Charlotte NC)
"Love Can Warm A Winter's Day" — Brian Morris (N. Eastham MA)
"I Remember Christmas" — Fran Ellison (St. Louis MO)
"The Loneliest Lonely" — Mike Hyden (Tulsa OK)
"No Regrets" — Rhonda Walsh (Whitehall MI)
"He's My Shrink, I Love Him" — Paula J. Monks (Vienna VA)
"It's Christmas Time" — Espen Raekstad (Olso NORWAY)
"She’s My Country" — Tom Dean (Gainesville FL)
"New York" — Jane Blackstorm (Gradignan FRANCE)
"Ham For the Holidays" — Lynn Crisci (Augusta ME)<>
Instrumental
"Landing At Destination" — Leiya Lee
(Hong Kong)
"Morely Magic" — Joey Stuckey (Macon GA)
"Perusing" — Jim Howard III (Sao Luis BRASIL)
"Theme For Janice" — Dan Luevano (Carson City NV)
"The Light Side To Be Jewish" — Anatoliy Bukhman
(Brooklyn NY)"Promise Me" & "Home Again" — Shannon Janssen (Vinton IA)
"The Longest Night" — Vicki Genfan (Fairview NJ)
"Jujette" — Jeremy Kittel (Ann Arbor MI)
"Once Upon A Time" — Yener Korkut (C'sted St. Croix)
"Maybe" — Cory Stone (Waco TX)
"Godfather Suite" — Kevin Rowe (Jamestown NY)
"Sandstorm" — Kareem Joseph Roustom (Roslindale MA)
"Angel Rise" & "Special One" — John G. Maione (Pittsburgh PA)
"Splendor of the Moment" — Katrina Adriano (Philadelphia PA)
"Somewhere Before" — Matthew Von Doran (Newport Beach CA)<>
Lyric Writing
"Boundries of the Boulevard" — Chris Argento (Northport NY)
"The Costa Rican Cure" — Josey Hyde (Santa Barabara CA)
"Bring Me Home" — Felice Keller (Los Angeles CA)
"I'm Leaving You For Me" — Gail Siefring (Windham OH)
"House Without Walls" — Kurt Orning (Hayfield MN)
"Love Doctor"— John Morris (Wollaston England)
"Andre" — Susan Witzel (Westfield NJ)
"Louisianna Lovin' Night" — James M. Quillen (Middlesboro KY)
"Sugar Daddy Romp" — Suzanne Paschall (Saskatoon Canada)
"Harmonica Jo" — Linda Rose (Green Bay WI)
"Cowboys are Artists" — Susan Roller (Colbert WA)
"I Ran Away To Mexico" — Catherine Dail (New York)
"Bethlehem Is Burning" — Frank Ingari (Winchester MA)
"Santa, Santa, Turn Me Into" — Jinsong Guo (Medford MA)<>
All Categories
"CNN" — Charles Durfor (Rockville MD)
"Killin' Time" — Mike Younger (Littleton CO)
"Chill Out" — BrightHawk (Copenhagen Denmark)
"There's A Star" — Kellie Lin Knott (Cambridge MA)
"Debbie In Dallas" — Edmund Ramsey (Sacromento CA)
"If You See William" — Brian Gundersdorf (Ellicot City MD)
"The Storm Still Blows" — Jan J. de Groot (Langley BC Canada)
"Still" — Dan Portis-Cathers & Jimbeau Hinson (Newberg OR)
"I Still Think About You" — Lorna Flowers & Juan Albarran
(Nashville TN)
"Why Can't We Empty the Nest? — Carol Teal (Newmarket ONT Canada)
"Ruckus In the Henhouse"— Jane Eamon (Kelowna CANADA)
"King of all the World"— Gary Schreib (Meadow Vista CA)
"Pretty Pictures" — Aileen Morgan (Jersey City NJ)
"There Is Love In You" — Cari Cole (New York)
"Paradise Lane" — Joni Laurence (New York)
"Like the Sun" — Jamie Rattner (New York)
"Fine" — James Krueger (Phoenicia NY)
<>Congratulations to all these great songwriters!
NOTE: If you're listed as an Honor Award winner, you may display this Great American Song Honor Award banner on your website, or use it as an an impressive addition to your printed publicity & media materials!<>
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