Induction Year: 2017
Birth Name: Dewayne Lorne Blackwell
Birth Date: 09-17-1936
Place of Birth: Corpus Christi, Texas
Death Date: 05-23-2021
Place of Death: Baja California, Mexico
"A Million Light Beers Ago"
| David Frizzell | 1983 | #39 country |
"Cowboy In A Three Piece Business Suit"
| Rex Allen, Jr. | 1982 | #44 country |
"Friends In Low Places"
(written with Earl Bud Lee)
1990 ACM Single of the Year; 1991 CMA Single of the Year; 1991 ASCAP Country Song of the Year
| Garth Brooks | 1990 | #1 country |
| Mark Chesnutt | 1990 |
| Floyd Cramer | 1995 |
"Hickory, Dick And Doc"
| Bobby Vee | 1964 | #63 pop |
"Honkytonk Man"
| Marty Robbins | 1982 | #10 country |
| Moe Bandy & Joe Stampley | 2003 |
| Merle Haggard | 2005 |
"I'm Gonna Hire A Wino To Decorate Our Home"
| David Frizzell | 1982 | #1 country |
"Love Or Money"
| Billy Fury | 1961 | #57 UK |
"Make My Day"
| T.G. Sheppard & Clint Eastwood | 1984 | #12 country, #62 pop |
"Mama Come'n Get Your Baby Boy"
| Johnny Darrell | 1970 | #68 country |
"Mr. Blue"
| The Fleetwoods | 1959 | #1 pop, #3 r&b |
| David MacBeth | 1959 | #18 UK |
| Mike Preston | 1959 | #12 UK |
| Bobby Vee | 1960 |
| Johnny Crawford | 1962 |
| Bobby Vinton | 1963 |
| Pat Boone | 1964 |
| Gary Lewis & the Playboys | 1965 |
| Garth Brooks | 1990 |
| Bob Dylan and The Band | 2014 |
"Nobody Gets Off In This Town"
| Moe Bandy | 1988 |
| Garth Brooks | 1989 |
"Oh That's Bad, No That's Good"
| Sam The Sham and The Pharoahs | 1967 | #54 pop |
"Please Operator"
| Garth Brooks | 1998 |
"Saturday Night Special"
(written with Larry Bastian)
| Conway Twitty | 1988 | #9 country |
"Still Pickin' Up After You"
(written with Larry Bastian)
| The Kendalls | 1987 | #62 country |
"The Ferris Wheel"
(written with Ronald Blackwell)
| The Everly Brothers | 1964 | #22 UK, #72 pop |
"The Last One To Know"
| The Fleetwoods | 1960 | #96 pop |
"Tulsa Ballroom"
(written with John Durrill)
| Dottie West | 1983 | #40 country |
"Turn The Pencil Over"
| Porter Wagoner | 1982 | #53 country |
"Uptown Down-Home Good Ol' Boy"
(written with Earl Bud Lee)
| Garth Brooks | 1998 | #65 country |
"When Karen Comes Around"
(written with Bobby Fischer, Earl Bud Lee, Robert Ellis Orrall)
| Mason Dixon | 1988 | #49 country |
| The Oak Ridge Boys | 1988 |
"Yard Sale"
(written with Larry Bastian)
| Sammy Kershaw | 1992 | #17 country |
Induction Year: 2017
