Great American Song Contest

19th Annual Great American Song Contest
GASC HONOR FINALISTS / 2017

Outstanding songs were discovered all categories of the 19th Annual Great American Song Contest. GASC Judges reviewed songs by more than 1800 songwriters around the world. The impressive quality of songwriting made the task of choosing winners enjoyable, but also challenging.

Below is the official list of GASC 2017 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.

PLEASE NOTE: If you are listed as a FINALIST on this page you are invited to display this Great American Song Award banner on your website.
(If you have a website to list with your song, please e-mail us the web address.)

Pop/Adult Contemporary	Instrumental
Adult Contemporary	Rock/Alt
Singer Songwriter	Hip Hop/R & B
Country	Special Category Music
Chistian/Inspirational	Lyric Writing
Folk/Americana

POP

Jasmine Crowe "Breaking Things" (Studio City CA) website
Ashley Fulton "Carry Me" (Pepper Pike OH) website
Anthony Minnis "Dirty Love" (Naples FL) website
Louis Cate "Summer Fling" (Alexandria VA) website
John Pickett "I Say That Love" (Ellensburg WA) website
Kenny Nelson "Torn" (Santa Barbara CA) website
Larry Warren "Cutiepie" (Torrington CT) website
Lauren Ashlaie Jerothe "Right With You" (Woodbridge VA) website
Mason Maggio "Neon Soul" (Brooklyn NY) website
Mia Saxena "Checkmate" (Ashburn VA) website
Miles Partridge "All of Nothing" (Willow Spring NC)  website
Pamela Gaylord "Get It" (Lake Grove NY) website
Paul Smith "Pour Me A Lullaby" (Toronto ON) website
Sammie Zonana "We Spoon. I Spoon." (Austin TX) website  

 

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ADULT CONTEMPORARY (AC)

Lizzy Loeb "Free Will"  (Los Angeles CA)  website
Susan Muranty/Ritchie Neville/Sven Tydeman "I Can't Unlove You" (Sydney AUSTRALIA) website
Sherwin Kaufman "Tell Me What You See" (New York NY) website
Jeff Fortuno "I'm Not An Immigrant" (Henderson TN) website
Kami Lyle "Ladies Skating" (Harwich MA) website
Patrick Nagel "Slow Dancing With You" (Ukiah CA) website
Don Coyne "Down" ( Sovang CA) website
Yifei Zhang "Morning Sun" Brooklyn NY) website
Marlon Jantjies "Away" (King Williams SOUTH AFRICA) website
Laurence Elder "Now" (Binghamton NY) website
Tom Heller & Adam Rossi "My Brother"  (Cypress CA) website
Robert Marino "I Gotta Little Crush On You & "I Love You More" (Yorktown Heights NY) website

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SINGER-SONGWRITER

Leila Milki "Our Eyes Close" (West Hollywood CA)  website
Tyler Shafer "Message In A Bottle" (Norman OK)  website
Teghan Devon "Fresh Cut" (Myersville MD) website
Jenna Kohut "Drowning" (Los Angeles CA) website
Nina Lee "Airborne" New York NY) website
Alan Duncan "Blank Canvas" (Mission Viejo CA) website
Alice Watson "Fall In Love With Me Again" (Fort Worth TX) website
Ben Wagner "Take My Time" (Milwaukee WI) website
Doug Knight "A Little Town Called Cahir" (Orlando FL) website
Dylan Galvin "When Hearts Approach the Great Divide" (Los Angels CA) website
Jon Durnell "Hoppin' A Train" (Fort Wayne IN) website
Peter Alexander "For Michelangelo" (Half Moon Bay CA) website
Randy Emmons "When I Go" (Osprey FL) website
Sarah Eide "Shadow" (Chicago IL) website
Stephen Grauberger & Ty Williams "Steer" (Thompsons Station TN) website
Tyller Fischer "The Battle Inside" (Victoria AUSTRALIA) website

NOTE: If you are listed as a FINALIST on this page you are invited to display this Great American Song Award banner on your website.

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COUNTRY

T. Edwin Doss "Behind Bars" ( Bumpass VA) website
Danny Kensy "Old Flame" (North Chesterfield VA) website
John Cirillo-Dan Reifsnyder-Sarah Spencer "If You Drink" (Nashville TN) website
Cohen & Martindale "Young In My Heart" (Washington Crossing PA) website
Sidney Cope "Making Memories" (Corinth TX) website
Ed Cawhon "What's the Matter With Me" (Brentwood TN) website
Joseph Pfeifer "Ten Good Years" (Lake Havasu City AZ) website
Neal Morgan "Bona Fide" & I Hear the Music" ( (Lincoln CA) website
Paul Anderson "America's Daughter" (Valcencia CA) website
Pat Flanakin "Been There Done That" (Hermatige TN) website
Spencer Kelly "Guiding Light" ( (Victoria Park AUSTRALIA) website
Lexi James "Little Boys" (Kittery Point ME)  website
Mike Bloomer "Peace By the River" (Frisco TX) website
Adam Radmanovich "John Wayne" (Springfield TN) website
Carolyn Anele "Bring That Mountain Down" (Vernon BC CANADA) website
Chiris Isbell "Three Quarter Time" (England AR) website
David Skibbins "Love Anyway" (The Sea Ranch CA) website
Debbie Hennessey "Right For Right Now" (Culver City CA) website
Eric Blossman "Take A Wild Guress" (Spicewood TX) website
James Lake "Crazy When I Met You" & "Woman Or the Whiskey" (Winfield IL) website
Joe Kocsis "She Left A Dear John On My John Deere" (Myrtle Beach SC) website
Joe Rivera "Bring It Back" (Sicklerville NJ) website
Katie Dix "Second Best" (Woodland Hills CA) website
Kevin Tye "Living On Memories" (Binghamton NY) website
Laurence Elder "Wherever You Want Me" (Binghamton NY) website

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CHRISTIAN / INSPIRATIONAL

Zoe Hobby "Come As You Are" (Ocilla GA) website
Vera Tabib "Final Frontier" (Sebastopol CA) website
Tami Pockstaller "Two Gardens" (entreville AL) website
Bo Bryant, Paul Reeves & Josh Roland "The Same" & "No Other Hope" (Marietta GA) website
Pete Richmond "The Rock Between You and A Hard Place" (Branson MO) website
Alan Maki "Jesus Set the Captivees Free" (Tecumseh MI) website
Palmer "Stacy" Barton "How Far Is Heaven?" (Horseshoe Bend AR) website
Gretchen Keskeys "Child Of the King" & "Running On Pure Hope" (Sacramento CA) website
Charles Cook "Call Out His Name Jesus" (Staten Island NY) website
Sharon Johnson "Magnificent Rose" (Indianapolis IN) website
Nathan Brumley "Breath Of My Soul" (Antioch TN) website
Chris Stevens "Healer of the Broken" (Seymour IN) website
Cindy Bauchspies "All Things New" (Annapolis MD) website
Melissa Furbish "The Tree" (Plymouth NH) website
Gary Zimmerman "Yourt Worth" (Belton TX) website
Cynthia Lok "In the Secrect Place" (North Vancouver BC) website
Dean Lindsay "Get Me To the Cross" (Plano TX) website
Dustin Clark "My Hoe" (Pasadena TX) website
Eric Defend "Let Us Walk In Your Ways" (Monticello IL) website
Junko Cheng "Lavishing God" (Irvine CA) website
Katie Wise "Voices To Proclaim" (The Woodlands TX) website
Neil Gallagher "Into the Street" (Sheffield Lake OH) website
Thonda Rattansingh "Come On Enter In" (Chaguanas TRINADAD) website
Richard Bruce Eells "Next Stop Is Heaven" (Monterey CA) website
Taylor Hart "Cracks Make Me Less" (Leesburg VA) website

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FOLK / AMERICANA

Carolyn Anele "Coal Dust Sandwiches" (Vernon BC CANADA) website
David Carroll "Let Your Heart Shine Bright" (Waverly NS CANADA) website
Dawn Schumilas "Gramma's Apron Pockets" (White Fox SK CANADA) website
Jonas Friddle "Long Long Line" (Chicago IL) website
Curt Joa "I Thought I Saw Me" (Kohler WI)website
David Nachmanoff "That Guy" (Davis CA) website
Laurence Baer "Song of Cain" (Columbia MD) website
Lisa Marks & Michael Casali "Fly Me Away" (Springfield MO) website
Palmer "Stacy" Barton "Final Anthem" (Horseshoe Bend AR) website
Max Demers "The Tower" (Astoria NY) website
Mick McHugh "Not In Kansas Anymore" (Eureka AUSTRALIA) website
Rupert Wates "Oh The Times" (New York NY) website
Paul Finn "My Lovely Stray" (Essex ENGLAND) website
R. Mack Harrell "Those Tom Petty Songs" (Boca Raton FL) website
Grey Watson "True Hearts Know No Boundary" (Pelham AL) website
Jason McKinney "Sacred Southern Soul" (Antioch TN) website
Jason Tyler Burton "Bet On Me" (Pinedale WY)website
John Radzing "Nowhere Feels Like Home" (Ridgefield CT) website
Kim Ware "7 Year Sentence-Going To Hell" (Atlanta GA) website
Larry Decker "I'm Just An Average Man" (Sterling Heights MI) website
Cynthia Carr "Our House, Our Town" (Sonoma CA) website
Stephen Coffee "The Impossible Sky" (Falls Church VA) website
Steve Schuch "Fishin' Hole" (Hancock NH) website
Tim Angsten "All I've Ever Known" (Goodlettsville TN) website

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INSTRUMENTAL

Jeremy Stepansky "Sunrise" (Monclair NJ) website
Cyntia Thijs "Live Your Dream" (Overijssel NETHERLANDS) website
Bill Wren "Heart To Heart" (Fulton TX) website
Ed Fournier "Teahupoo" (Wrightwood CA) website
Akira Kambe "The Pipe" (Osaka-hu JAPAN) website
Andrzej Kisiel "Sailing In the Twilight" (Radom POLAND) website
Elizabeth Omeed "Crossing That Great Chasm" (The Woodlands TX) website
Galen Ross "Nature's Pulse" (Midlothian VA) website
Gary Zoellner "All Hallows Eve" (Falls Church VA) website
George Karagiannis "Thelissis" (Athens GREECE) website
James Alexander Pavlic "O How the Winds Are Changin' " (Middlefield OH) website
Nga Yung Chan "A Moonlit Night" (HONG KONG) website
Randy Emmons "Aenir" (Osprey FL) website
Russell Wheelock "Max Patch Round" (Asheville NC) website
Steven Cooney "Driving Away" (Wantagh NY) website
Theodoros Mavromoustakis "My Guitar" (Thessaloniki GREECE) website
Yulia Petrova "Storm" & "When There Is Nothing To Say" (Frisco TX) website
Jordan Spivack "Pulsar" (Nanuet NY) website
Sidney Redd "If You See Her" (Green Cove Springs FL) website
Steve Elling "Into & Away" (Canaan NY) website

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ROCK / ALT

Matt North "A Good Day in Nashville" (Nashville TN)) website
Andrew Chapman "Writing On the Wall" (Idstein GERMANY) website
Adam Bailleaux "Hard Luck Case" (Toronto ON CANADA) website
Casey Truman "Pave A One-way Road" (Orem UT) website
Janine de Souza & Jamie Folds "Army of One" (Berkely CA) website
Lauire Miller "I Like You" (Lynnwood WA) website
Mike Pojar "Blood Sweat and No Fears" (Garden Grove CA) website
Peter Johnson "Ethernet Love Song" (Rochester NY) website
Zion Rodman "Into the Night" (Chicago IL) website

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HIPHOP / R&B


Brian Williams " TBE (The Best Ever)" (Dearborn MI) website
Adrian Boeckeler "FUNeral" (Westlake Village CA) website
Eric Blossman "Today (Let's Start Today) (Spicewood TX) website
Dominique Coleman "Home" (Abilene TX) website

NOTE: If you are listed as a FINALIST on this page you are invited to display this Great American Song Award banner on your website.

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SPECIAL CATEGORY MUSIC


Lynne Revo-Cohen "We Will Rise" (Reston VA) website
Scott Lehman "Thank God For the Gargage Man" (Forest Park IL) website
Eric Kneifel "Christmas Wonder" (Sherwood OR) website
Dana Paul Robinson "Where's the Ring" (Brooklyn NY) website
Laurence Baer "To Bring A Mermaid Home" (Columbia MD) website
Mikhail Petersen "Deuce Attack" (Doraville GA) website
Jason Reuter "Entomology" (La Crosse WI) website
Jamie Polen "Ho Ho Ho-hum Christmas" (Nashville TN) website
J. Edna Mae Thomas "Bounce" (Wales UK) website
Alan Ackoff "Manana" (Santa Fe NM) website
Chris Elliott "Cheat On You" (Montague MA) website
Dawn Schumilas "Rubber Galoshes" (Saskatchewan CANADA) website
Debbi Gutierrez "Get A Long Little Doggie" (Belen NM) website
Elvin McFarlin "My Freedome Is Not Free" website
Jeanie Bratschie "Grandpa's Hands" (Evanston IL) website
John Pickett "When Danny Comes To Call" (Ellensburg WA) website
Lon Conklin "This Christmas Eve (Woodstock NY) website
Marina Sommers "Happy New Year!" (Encinitas CA) website
Patrick DeSimio "Lullaby of the Sky" (Las Cruces NM) website
Steve Sellers "I Love To Play the Ukulele In My Jammies" (San Antonio TX) website
Ron Hawking "Rock-N-Roll Santa Clause"  (Barrington IL) website
Eric Kneifel "Christmas Wonder" (Sherwood OR) website
Susan Kohler "A Song For Peace (Venice CA)) website
Paul Coleman "I Do" (Wappingers Falls NY) website

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LYRIC WRITING

Eugene Muller "A Child Is Born" (Oakville CANADA) website
T. Edwin Doss "Best Man" (Bumpass VA) website
Joseph James Marshall "Skull Tattoo" (Kent ENGLAND) website
Lawrence Hamlet "Love In the Ruins" (Rockville MD) website
Lisa Marks & Michael Casali "Fly Me Away" (Springfield MO) website
Michelle Porter "Nobody From Nowhre" (Rapid City SD) website
Mike Pojar "Blood Sweat and No Fears" (Garden grove CA) website
Preston Jones "Rachel Doesn't Sing Anymore" (Dallas TX) website
Rob Gallagher "My Country Mojo" (Bloomington IL) website
Susan Muranty "The Heart You Break the Hardest" (Sydney AUSTRALIA) website
Alan Amisano "One After That" (DPO AE) website

NOTE: If you are listed as a FINALIST on this page you are invited to display this
Great American Song Award banner on your website.

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Congratulations to all these great songwriters!

Archives of Winners from Previous Years:
Finalists from 2021
Finalists from 2020
Finalists from 2019
Finalists from 2018
Finalists from 2017
Finalists from 2016
Finalists from 2015
Finalists from 2014
Finalists from 2013
Finalists from 2012
Finalists from 2011
Finalists from 2010
Finalists from 2009
Finalists from 2008