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Ben James Peters〔http://www.nashvillesongwritersfoundation.com/p-s/ben-peters.aspx Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame〕 (born Greenville, Mississippi, June 20, 1933; died Nashville, Tennessee, May 25, 2005) was an American country music songwriter who wrote many #1 songs. Charley Pride recorded 68 of his songs and 6 of them went to #1 on the American country charts.〔http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ben-peters-492531.html〕 Peters was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1980. Peters was briefly a recording artist himself; his only charting hit was his own composition "San Francisco is a Lonely Town", which hit #46 on the country charts in 1969.〔''Joel Whitburn Presents Across the Charts: The 1960s'', Joel Whitburn, 2008, p. 296〕 ==Number One Compositions in America== *"Turn the World Around" (1967) was a #1 Billboard chart country hit for Eddy Arnold & top 5 Billboard chart AC single. *"That's A No, No" was a 1969 #1 Cashbox chart country hit for Lynn Anderson. *"Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'" was a 1971 #1 Billboard chart country hit for Charley Pride; it also went to #21 on the American pop charts. It won Ben Peters the 1973 Grammy Award for Best Country Song. *"It's Gonna Take a Little Bit Longer" was a 1972 #1 Billboard chart country hit for Charley Pride. *"Before the Next Teardrop Falls" (w/Vivian Keith); first recorded in 1967 by Duane Dee in a version which reached #44 on the Billboard country singles chart early in 1968,〔''Billboard'', January 20, 1968, p. 47〕 the 1975 version by Freddy Fender was a #1 Billboard chart country and a #1 Billboard chart pop hit; it won a Country Music Association Award for Single of the Year in 1975. *"Love Put a Song in My Heart" (1975) was a #1 Billboard chart country hit for Johnny Rodriguez. *"A Whole Lotta Things to Sing About" was a #1 Billboard chart country hit for Charley Pride in 1976. *"Daytime Friends" (1977) was a #1 Billboard chart country hit for Kenny Rogers. Westlife covered this song for a special BBC performance with Tony Brown as producer. *"Burgers and Fries" was a 1978 #1 Billboard chart country hit for Charley Pride. *"Before My Time" was a 1979 #1 Record World chart country hit for John Conlee and also a #1 hit on Canada's RPM'S country chart. *"You're So Good When You're Bad" (1982) was a #1 Billboard chart country hit for Charley Pride. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ben Peters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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