Ben Peters
| Ben Peters | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Ben James Peters |
| Born |
June 20, 1933 Greenville, MS, USA |
| Died | May 25, 2005 (aged 71) Nashville, TN, USA |
| Occupation(s) | Songwriter |
| Associated acts | Eddy Arnold, Lynn Anderson, Charley Pride, Freddy Fender, Johnny Rodriguez, Kenny Rogers, John Conlee, others |
Ben James Peters (born Greenville, Mississippi, June 20, 1933; died Nashville, Tennessee, May 25, 2005) was an American country music songwriter who wrote many #1 songs. Charley Pride recorded 68 of his songs and 6 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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