Tracy's very own Dennis Morgan will be honored on Saturday, July 26, at 2:30 p.m. at the Ford Theater in Nashville at the Country Music Hall of Fame's 'Poets and Prophets' program in Nashville.
Morgan is known as one of the music industry's most versatile and successful songwriters for more than 40 years, having written or co-written country music hits such as 'I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool,' 'Sleeping Single in a Double Bed,' 'I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World,' 'She Keeps the Home Fires Burning,' 'Smoky Mountain Rain', 'Nobody,' 'Snapshot' and 'All Roads Lead to You.'
Other hits credited to Morgan include pop songs such as Aretha Franklin and George Michael's 'I Knew You Were Waiting for Me' and Rod Stewart's 'My Heart Can't Tell You No.'
Morgan is a four-time BMI Country Songwriter of the Year winner, a two-time BMI Pop Songwriter of the Year, and was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004.
