Music

Featured among the 31 entries are ten composers, three bandleaders, two piano players, a saxophonist, a trumpeter, two opera singers, a pop singer, a rock and roll idol, a forerunner of rock and roll, the developer of first computer sound synthesis languages, and co-founder of Capitol Records; numerous hit songs and recordings include “Chiseled in Stone,” “From the Land of Sky-Blue Waters,” “Sweet Leilani,” “Wabash Cannonball,” and “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” as well as film themes “Camelot” and “Batman”; three recipients of Academy Award and one nominee, three recipients of Grammy Award and one nominee, winners of Pulitzer Prize, Peabody Award, and Horatio Alger Award, two inducted into Nashville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, one in Grammy Hall of Fame, one in Songwriter’s Hall of Fame of National Academy of Popular Music, and one elected to National Academy of Sciences.

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