Ben Peters
Songwriter
1933 – 2005
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Who was Ben Peters?
Ben James Peters was an American country music songwriter who wrote many #1 songs. Charley Pride recorded 40 of his songs and 4 of them went to #1 on the American country charts. 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.
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- Born
- Jun 20, 1933
Mississippi - Also known as
- Ben James Peters
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- The University of Southern Mississippi
- Died
- May 25, 2005
Nashville
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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