NEW YORK, April 16 (UPI) -- U.S. entertainer Paul Anka has been chosen to receive the Johnny Mercer Award at the upcoming Songwriters Hall of Fame 2008 Awards dinner in New York.

NEW YORK, Feb. 29 (UPI) -- Desmond Child, Albert Hammond, Loretta Lynn, Alan Menken and John Sebastian are to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York this year.

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- KISS guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley confirms the band from CBS's "Rock Star" will back him on his "Live to Win" solo tour.

NEW YORK, June 23 (UPI) -- Carrie Underwood, who only a month ago became the fourth winner of "American Idol," now has country's top single with her "Inside Your Heaven." The Desmond Child-written song, which Underwood performed during her final week of competition on the Fox serie

LOS ANGELES, June 18 (UPI) -- Birmingham, Ala.-native Bo Bice, runner-up of the fourth season of Fox's "American Idol," has been signed to 19 Recordings/RCA Records.

LOS ANGELES, July 17 (UPI) -- Here is a list of nominees for the 55th Prime Time Emmy Awards, announced Thursday in Los Angeles:

TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY (Fri., Feb.22) Jesse Ashlock, an original member of the Texas Playboys, was born in 1915. Del Wood was born in 1920.

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