Thom Bell, Mac Davis, Will Jennings, Sylvia Moy and Henry Cosby are inductees to the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
The prolific songwriters will accept their awards at the 37th annual induction dinner on June 15 in Manhattan.
Bell, a two-time Grammy winner and R&B producer-composer, helped to create the "Philly Soul" sound through his work in the 60s with the Delfonics and in the 70s with the Spinners, the O'Jays and the Stylistics.
He arranged a string of memorable hits, including the Stylistics' Stop, Look and Listen and the O'Jays' classic Love Train.
Davis found success as the composer of Elvis hits A Little Less Conversation and In the Ghetto.
Jennings composed popular movie themes My Heart Will Go On, from Titanic, and Up Where We Belong, from An Officer and a Gentleman.
Moy composed Motown classics such as Stevie Wonder's My Cherie Amour and Marvin Gaye's It Takes Two.
Cosby composed Stevie Wonder's Uptight (Everything's Alright), and Smokey Robinson & The Miracles' Tears of a Clown.
Songwriters' rewards
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