Bob Seger Honored.

BOB SEGER: Another Hall of Fames Comes Knocking

2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Bob Seger is headed into another hall -- the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He tells us, "It's a great honor and I'm very flattered. It makes me want to get back in the studio and write more!" Seger is currently writing and recording songs for his next album, tentatively titled Ride Out, which he hopes to release in September.

Joining Seger in the Hall of Fame will be:

• Gordon Lightfoot who's best known for the '70s classics "Sundown" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." His songs have also been covered by Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand, Peter Paul and Mary, Richie Havens, Glen Campbell and Anne Murray.
• Jim Steinman, who wrote the songs on Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell, as well as "Total Eclipse of the Heart" for Bonnie Tyler and Air Supply's "Making Love Out of Nothing at All."
• Don Schlitz, the Nashville writer who wrote "The Gambler" for Kenny Rogers and has since penned 24 country chart toppers.
• The team of Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones, who made their mark with the score for The Fantastiks, the longest running musical of all time.

These five inductees, with other special award recipients, will be honored on June 14th at the Marriott Marquis in New York.

Among the artists nominated this year who did not make it are Pete Townshend, Steve Miller, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Dion DiMucci, Blondie's Deborah Harry and Chris Stein, Cat Stevens, Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart of Eurhythmics and George Michael.

Previous inductees include John Fogerty, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Elton John and Bernie Taupin, Brian Wilson, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison and many others.