{"id":119140,"date":"2025-01-22T18:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T18:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/22\/members-of-the-doobie-brothers-the-beach-boys-mike-love-among-this-years-songwriters-hall-of-fame-inductees\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T18:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T18:01:15","slug":"members-of-the-doobie-brothers-the-beach-boys-mike-love-among-this-years-songwriters-hall-of-fame-inductees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/22\/members-of-the-doobie-brothers-the-beach-boys-mike-love-among-this-years-songwriters-hall-of-fame-inductees\/","title":{"rendered":"Members of The Doobie Brothers, The Beach Boys&#8217; Mike Love among this year\u2019s Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-22\/M_SongwritersHallofFamelogo_050423_0.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Courtesy SHOF<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Members of <strong>The Doobie Brothers<\/strong> and <strong>The Beach Boys<\/strong>\u2019 <strong>Mike Love<\/strong> are among the artists chosen for induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame this year.<\/p>\n<p>Love and The Doobies\u2019 <strong>Mike Johnston<\/strong>, <strong>Michael McDonald<\/strong> and <strong>Patrick Simmons<\/strong> will be inducted into the 2025 class in the performers category, along with <strong>George Clinton<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Non-performing songwriters set for induction this year include <strong>Rodney \u201cDarkchild\u201d Jenkens<\/strong>, best known for writing such songs a \u201cSay My Name\u201d and \u201cThe Boy Is Mine,\u201d hit country songwriter <strong>Ashley Gorley<\/strong> and <strong>Tony Macaulay,<\/strong> who penned such songs as &#8220;Build Me Up Buttercup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe foundation of the music industry exists because songwriters compose great songs,\u201d SHOF Chairman <strong>Nile Rodgers<\/strong> said. \u201cWithout them, there is no recorded music, no concert business, no fans, or merchandising; it all starts with the song and the songwriter. We are therefore very proud that we are continually recognizing some of the culturally most important writers of all time and that this year&#8217;s slate represents not just iconic songs, but also diversity and unity across genres and ethnicity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He adds, \u201cThese songwriters have enriched the lives of billions of listeners the world over. It&#8217;s our honor to honor them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Artists who were nominated, but not chosen this year, include <strong>Bryan Adams<\/strong>, <strong>Steve Winwood<\/strong>, <strong>Boy George<\/strong>, <strong>Bread<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>David Gates<\/strong>, <strong>Sheryl Crow<\/strong>, <strong>Alanis Morissette<\/strong>, <strong>Janet Jackson<\/strong>, <strong>Eminem,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Tommy James<\/strong> and the members of <strong>Public Enemy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 class will be celebrated at the annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Gala, taking place June 12, in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy SHOF Members of The Doobie Brothers and The Beach Boys\u2019 Mike Love are among the artists chosen for induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame this year. Love and The Doobies\u2019 Mike Johnston, Michael McDonald and Patrick Simmons will be inducted into the 2025 class in the performers category,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/22\/members-of-the-doobie-brothers-the-beach-boys-mike-love-among-this-years-songwriters-hall-of-fame-inductees\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,430,452],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}