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15th
Annual Great American Song Contest
GASC
FINALISTS / 2013
Exceptional songs were discovered all
categories of the 15th Annual Great American Song Contest.
GASC Judges reviewed songs by nearly 1600 songwriters
around the world. The high quality of songwriting made
the task of choosing winners enjoyable, but very challenging.
Below is the official list of GASC 2013
Finalists. All scored near the top of their respective
categories. The number of category Finalists is proportionate
to the number of entries received for each of the 11
categories.
POP
"We Own The World" Shayna Toh (Singapore)
website 
"Extraordinary" Justin Honaman (Atlanta GA)
website
"3 Month Weekend" Edwin Booth & Clay Atkinson
(Redondo Beach CA) website
"I Wanna Play With U" Ott Lukk (Minneapolis
MN) website
"Running Out Of Love" Darren Ockert (Miami
FL) website
"Nappy Hair" Gail Rivers (Brooklyn NY) website
"Seasonal Love" Nicholas Martin (Manhattan
Beach CA) website
"Miss Magical" Rickey Chad Roland & Jerry
Glidewell (Fort Smith AR) website
"Stars Gotta Burn" Lauren Brombert & Phil
Bender-Stone (Denver CO) website
"The Static" Nicholas Deutsch (New York NY)
website
"I'm Running Out Of Love"
Darren Ockert (Miami FL) website
"Bad Boy" Victoria Smith (Newburyport MA)
website
"Earthquake" Larry Hamlet (Rockville MD) website
"You Paint Me Blue" Margot de Graaff (Den
Haag NETHERLANDS) website
"Off Track" Josh Zandman (Franklin TN website
"Ala Turca" Victoria Boz (MuÄŸla
Turkey) website
"So You'll Be Sorry" Slava Zenin & Darren
Haines (Southampton UK) website
"Raise the Night" Joe Kenny (Portlaw Waterford
IRELAND) website
"Baby, Can't You See I'm in Love?" Jens Frederik
Kofoed (Copenhagen DENMARK) website
ADULT CONTEMPORARY
(AC)
"Salty Water" Divya Maus & Daniel Weidlein
(Los Angeles CA) website
"California's Burning" Alexander Hamilton
(Stouffville ON CANADA) website
"Sometimes I Don't Miss U" Debra Gussin &
Kyle Vincent (Los Angeles CA) website
website
"Marry Me" Marty Brueggeman (Saint Paul MN)
website
"Sorry" Robert Marino (Yorktown Heights NY)
website
"That Old Feeling Feeling New" Jeff Gordon
(Hillsboro OR) website
"Watch Me Go" Nitanee Paris Lawson (Malibu
CA) website
"Get Naked" Michael McGee
& Rolf Schnyder (Philipsburg PA) website
"Raining on a Sunday Afternoon" Matt Rhoden
(Brooklyn NY) website
"Widowmaker" Chase Manhattan & Night Argentt
(Pasco WA) website
"The Haunting" Jessi Teich (Philadelphia PA)
website
"A Song Like This" Robert Marino (Yorktown
Heights NY) website
"Left My Heart" Debra Gussin & Kyle Vincent
(Los Angeles CA) website
website
"Warning Label" Michael Stefansky (Lawrence
NY) website
"Party Boat" Lamont Hines (Brooklyn NY) website
"I Thought We'd Always Be Together" Fred Lederman
& Alan Baboff (Mount Kisco NY) website
SINGER-SONGWRITER
"Soft Place To Fall" Debra Gussin & Jonathan
Bluth (Los Angeles CA) website
website
"Snow" Daniel Ayers (Cambridgeshire ENGLAND)
website
"I Wouldn't Dance" David Myles (Halifax NS
Canada) website
"I Get High" Yuma Sasaki (Yokohama JAPAN)
website
"Spiral" Rick Hart (Rowville AUSTRALIA) website
"A Friend Like That" Kate Wallace & Annie
J. Dahlgren (Santa Barbara CA) website
"Live Hard, Love Harder" Shane Martin, Zac
Wrixon & Dustin Duhon (Independence MN) website
"Ever After" Evie Archer, Annie Minogue &
Nick Saya (Weehawken NJ) website
"I Won't Miss You" Mary Lou Minor (Port Colborne
ON CANADA) website
"Circle of Life" Ben Willard (Chiloquin OR)
website
"Lost Children" Rabbit Quinn (San Francisco
CA) website
"Farewell Speech" Gretchen Pleuss (Wooster
OH) website
"The Day the House Left Home" Jeff King (Torontoa
CANADA) website
"Something Missing" Janet
Preus (Minneapolis MN) website
"It's Spring Again" Dianoh Wills (Houston
TX) website
"See the Light" Gary Frost (Jupiter FL) website
"In Love With The Waitress" Pete Smith (Kent
UK) website
"Do It While You Can" Jeffrey David West (Santa
Cruz CA) website
"True Lies" Ryan Gollogly (Veron ON CANADA)
website
"Shantytown" David McAdams (Lummi Island WA)
website
"Summertime" Yani Nadua (Toronto ON CANADA)
website
COUNTRY
"I'm All In" Barbara Lynn
Doran, Dayna Shereck & Murray Daigle (Brooklin ON
CANADA) website
"Full Time Work Part Time Pay" Leroy Young
& Chris Thompson (Smyrna TN) website
"Lie With Me Tonight" Hannah Ellis, Cameron
Bedell & David Smith (Campbellsville KY) website
"I Miss You But My Aim's Improving" Rusty
Ford (Vancouver CANADA) website
"No Yodeling On The Radio" Karen Collins &
Arty Hill (Takoma Park MD) website
"I Hug My Kids" Launnie Ginn" (San Luis
Obispo CA) website
"Numbered" Mitch Townley & Lee Johnson
(Knoxville TN) website
"Broke It In" Kyle D. Hulkonen & Chad
Borgen (Negaunee MI) website
"The Kind of Thing That Gets Passed Down"
Becca Bessinger (Mt. Pleasant SC) website
"I Don't Even Play Guitar" Glenn Valles, Pat
Luboff & Peter Luboff (Mumbai INDIA) website
"Get Ya Crazies On" Spencer Kelly (Victoria
Park AUSTRALIA) website
"Hillbilly Swagger" Jason Afable (Nashville
TN) website
"I Can't Even Swim" Dan Demay & Terry
Williford (Nashville TN) website
"Wicked Pink" Michael McGee and Michael Dubacher
(Philipsburg PA) website
"Friday Night" Dean Barton (Vilonia AR) website
"Second Luckiest Man" Mitchell Collins, Kimberly
Kime & James Hancock (Hixson TN) website
"Feels Like Home" LaurieAnne Savaglio (Warwick
NY) website
"Country Paradise" Michael Gantt (Martinsburg
WV) website
"When I Sail Away" Spencer Kelly (Victoria
Park AUSTRALIA) website
"Kokomo Joe's" Mark Lightcap (Chico CA) website
"Mess I’m In" Rick Hart (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
website
"Easy Does It" Mark Gauf & Ken Miller
(Peoria Heights IL - Stevensville MT) website
"The Fallen One" R. Mack Harrell (Boca Raton
FL) website
"Where the Party Begins" Ted Swormstedt (Westchester
OH) website
CHRISTIAN
/ INSPIRATIONAL
"The Gardener Of My Live" Naomi Spezza &
August Spezza (Spokane WA)
"Stone Of Hope" Grace S. Potts (Conyers GA)
website
"Greater Glory" Walter Pappas (Silver Spring
MD) website
"The Sound Of God" Sherwin Kaufman (New York
NY) website
"Where This Long Road Ends" Jeanne Houghtaling
(Las Cruces NM) website
"If I Could Die A Hero" Brian Wells (Wilmington
DE) website
"She Prayed Him Home "Rick Amburgey &
Bob Turk (Hopkinsville KY) website
"Jesus Is My GPS" Mike Parrish & Rebecca
Walker Jones (LaGrange GA) website
"God Chose Me" William Stewart (Chesterfield
VA) website
"All Things Are Passing" Billy Walsh (Clinton
MA) website
"If I Could Die A Hero" Brian L. Wells, Ritchie
Rubini, Ray Gagliardino (Wilmington DE) website
"The Sound of God" Sherwin Kaufman (New York
NY) website
"Who I Am" Nick Haynes (St. Claire MI) website
"Only Need A Workd" Paul Halvey (North Riverside
IL) website
"Story Of Our Lives" Johnny Herring (Austin
TX) website
"God Promised" Margie Garcia (Fontana CA)
website
"Go Now" Brad Ryder (Kentwood MI) website
FOLK
/ AMERICANA
"I'm Takin' This U-Haul to Utah" Alicia Michelle
Mullins (Burleson TX) website
"Minimum Wage" T. McLeish & J. Allaire
(Westmeath ON CANADA) website
"The Little Birds" Thomas J. Thiel (Cliffside
Park NJ) website
"Radio Flyer" T. Edwin Doss (Silver Springs
MD) website
"Singer-Songwriter Hell" Mark Stepakoff (Boston
MA) website
"Use Your Voice" Jonas
Friddle (Chicago IL) website
"Joan and Victor Jara" Patrick DeSimio (Mesilla
Park NM) website
"I've Got A Feeling" Shane Guse & Larry
Wayne Clark (Waterloo ON CANADA) website
"Baby Please" Elk & Boar Kirsten Wenlock
& Travis Barker (Tacoma WA) website
"Biscuts & Gravy" Trusten Williams (Camdenton
MO) website
"Meadowlark" Ann Zimmerman (Salina KS) website
"There Are No Sundays at Sea" Denise Jordan
Finley and Daniel Pagdon (Woodstock NY) website
"A Letter To God" Cornell Jermaine (Eastpointe
MI) website
"Your Doggin' Fool" D.B. Rielly (New York
NY) website
"Sure Thing" Roberta Schultz (Wilder KY) website
"River" Glen Hornblast (York ON CANADA) website
"What I'm Lookin' For" Dan Weber (Vancouver
WA) website
"Good Old Days" Christine Conley (Memphis
TN) website
"The Liveaboard Life" Tim Seay & Bill
Bentley (Martinez CA) website
"Song For the Chinese People" Randall Effner
(Jamestown MO) website
"Black Trees" Julie Kathryn (New York NY)
website
"Shake It Down" Jonas Friddle (Chicago IL)
website
INSTRUMENTAL
"So Beautiful" Katie Hardyman
& Peter Stevenson (Pampoolah NSW AUSTRALIA) website
"Because You Came" Adam Avery & Christopher
Hawthorne (Williston VT) website
"Modal Therapy" Lou DeAdder (Whitby ON CANADA)
website
"Sonato For Piano" Kenneth Fauteux (Fairfax
VA) website
"Sunflower Waltz" Michael K. Bain (Arlington
TX) website
"Renewal" Benjamin Denen (Pendleton IN) website
"Das Wiegenlied" Benjamin Denen (Gerrards
Cross ENGLAND) website
"Riding A Bicycle" Lou DeAdder (Whitby ON
CANADA) website
"Pass the Cheesecake" Gery Tinkelenberg (Oakland
CA) website
"Hot Rod Beach Party" Lou DeAdder (Whitby
ON CANADA) website
"Catch Me" Kyle King (New Albany OH) website
"Memory Of Love" Leslie Egerer (Hordaland
Norway) website
"Celtic Celebration" Mark Steudel (Seattle
WA) website
"Tuesday" Ellister van der Molen (Voorburg
NETHERLANDS) website
"If I Stay" Katie Hardyman (Pampoolah NSW
AUSTRALIA) website
"Ring Of Thorns" Peter Nostrand (Mason Neck
VA) website
"Balloon Ride" James A. Pavlic (Middlefield
OH) website
ROCK
/ ALT
"Glasses Back" Matthew Alexander (Dyer IN)
website
"Johnny Had A Gun" Ryan Gollogly (Verona ON
CANADA) website
"Lucid Lover" Jessi Teich (Philadelphia PA)
website
"Rockin' In the USA" Wayne Jacobs (Erith ENGLAND)
website
"All In the Name of Something" Gaylen Young
(Salt Lake City UT) website
"Freeloader" Michael Shepherd (Rugby Warks
UK) website
"Our Buildings" Sam Capolongo (Skillman NJ)
website
"Annabel Lee" Gilad Hesseg (adapted lyric
by Edgar Allan Poe (Haifa ISRAEL) website
"Audrey Mae" Molly Thomason (Halifax NS CANADA
website
"Game" Matthew Alexander (Dyer IN) website
"Rockabilly Boys" Kenny Walker & Butch
Paulson (Philipsburg PA) website
"Back To Me" Clifton Williams (Boston MA)
website
"Nothing More Beautiful" Chase Manhattan &
Night Argentt (Pasco WA) website
HIPHOP
/ R&B
"The Interview" Zachary
Klein (Menlo Park CA) website
"G.A.N.J.A." Stonewall "Stoneman"
Towery" (Clayton CA) website
"Unappreciated" Derris 'Bigtyme' Owens (Berwyn
Heights MD) website
"I Look A Fool" Randy Woods & Absofunkinlutely
(Saskatoon SK CANADA) website
"Could've Been Precious" William Stewart (Richmond
VA) website
"Thin Walls" Sharon Lee Williams (Toronto
CANADA) website
"Flashes of Light" M. Ali Nervis (Phoenix
AZ) website
"My Sunshine" Lamont Hines (Brooklyn NY) website
"To Be With You" Tommy Strausbaugh (Fremont
OH) website
"HVNLY" Matthew Jefferson - YC The Cynic (Bronx
NY) website
SPECIAL
CATEGORY MUSIC
"Got Hacked" Bob Merz (Haddon Township NJ)
website
"My Room's a Mess!" Marla Lewis (Wantagh NY)
website
"Throw the Bums Out" Robert Case (McAllen
TX) website
"Run" Jamie Anderson (Ottawa ON CANADA) website
"Christmas Party Time" John Andrade (Sandy
OR) website
"New Year's in Manhattan" Claudia Mikail (Woodland
Hills CA) website
"Messy Baby" Spencer Chandler (New York NY)
website
"Secret Room" Shanna O’Brien, Steve Reid
& Tony Carafone (Studio City CA) website
"Silence Tonight" Nancy Beaudette & Christine
Hatch (Cornwall ON CANADA) website
"Who Would Jesus Bomb?" John Duggleby &
Lance Brown (McFarland WI) website
website
"Dream Pony" Robert Powell (Campbell, CA)
website
"Merry Christmas, Baby" Mari Rosa (Boston
MA) website
"Seal Lullaby" Owen Duggan (San Antonio TX)
website
"Feet Feet!" Marla Lewis (Wantagh NY) website
"Time Flies By" Gregory Madison Brettell (Reno
NV) website
"Pick Your Own Parents Patch" Jeff King (Torontoa
CANADA) website
"TMI" Robin Bienemann (Oak Park IL) website
"(I Want You To) Unwrap Me" Wayne Liebhard
(Prior Lake MN) website
"Bankroll" Larry Antinozzi (Rockwall TX) website
"I Will Wash My Hands" Terry Beardslee (San
Diego CA) website
"Telecasturbator" Bill Bachmann (Chappaqua
NY) website
LYRIC
WRITING
"Just Like A Movie" Michelle Lewis (Boston
MA) website
"The Alpha Bet" Richard Dames (New York NY)
website
"Slow Work In Progress" T. Edwin Doss (Lake
Anna VA) website
"They're Not Making Love Like That Anymore"
Mark Stepakoff (Boston MA) website
"Traveling Incognito" Tom Ruffen (Burnaby
BC Canada) website
"An Old Disney Movie" Gary K. Brown (Rosepine
LA) website
"Stoned On Country" Michael Wilkinson (Gladesville
NSW AUSTRALIA) website
"El Pescador" Julie Noble (Hailey ID) website
"Ships" Martin Robley (Ballajura AUSTRALIA)
website
"Time to Bid Adieu" Char Matejovsky (Seattle
WA) website
"El Dorado" Shruthi Viswanathan (Manchester
ENGLAND) website
"The Bottom of the Bottle" Preston Jones (Dallas
TX) website
NOTE:
If you are listed as a FINALIST on this page you are
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Congratulations
to all these great songwriters!
Archives
of Winners from Previous Years:
Finalists from 2012
Finalists from 2011
Finalists from 2010
Finalists from 2009
Finalists from 2008
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