Great American Song Contest

21st Annual Great American Song Contest
GASC HONOR FINALISTS / 2019

Outstanding songs were discovered all categories of the 21st Annual Great American Song Contest. GASC Judges reviewed songs by more than 1800 songwriters from around the world. The impressive quality of songwriting made the task of choosing winners enjoyable, but also very challenging.

Below is the official list of GASC 2019 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, Facebook page or video posted, please send us the link to add to your listing below. *

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

Allegra Levy "Love Is A Bird" (New York NY) Website
Jillian Allen "The View" Huntington Beach CA) Website
Greg Slyford & Keegan Ferrell "How Many More" (Fort Wayne IN) Website
Austin Brookner  "Big Girls Dance Better" (New York NY) Website
Adam Aver "Tell Me" (Williston VT) Website
Eden Hegedus "Save Me" (Corman Park SK Canada) Website
Jeff Falk "Don't Kiss Me" (Boyton Beach FL) Website
Sydney Cope "Watch Our For Me (Burbank CA) Website
Taylor Poe "I Don't Like Love" (Santa Monica CA) Website
Sarah Smith / Lieuwe Ferwerda / Sjoerd Ferwerda "Kickstand" (Strathroy ON Canada) Website
Steve Okwor "Looking For Somebody To Love" (East Boston MA) Website
Larissa Davis "I Am Not An Ash" (Indian Trail NC) Website
Meg Pfeiffer "Just the Way You Are"  (Darnau Germany) Website
Rhia Bahree "Fire" (Bellevue WA) Website

 

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ADULT CONTEMPORARY (AC)

Russ Wheelock "Common Ground" (Asheville NC) Website
Joonas Tanner "Runaway Girl" (Austin TX) Website
Kit Taylor & Marv Ross "Time To Say Goodbye" (Hillsboro OR) Website
Cheryl Lim "Hey You With a Broken Heart" (Perth AUSTRALIA) Website
Ryan Tomlin "All The Songs I Know" & "Everyone With Someone" (Los Angeles CA) Website
Harold Frazee & Ed Russell "Brothers At The Bar"  (Toms River NJ) Website
Patrick Furrer "Hong Kong" (Highland Park NJ) Website
Melanie Peterson "Christmas Breaks My Heart" (Toronto CANADA) Website
Rex Pearce "Where Love Lies (Mandeville LA) Website
Evie Joy "Whole" (Astoria NY) Website
Jeff Leslie "Crimson Rose" (Webb City MO) Website

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SINGER-SONGWRITER

Bob Davoli "Transistor Radio and Me" (Lincoln MA) Website
Andrea Friedlander "Little Lick" (Austin TX ) Website
Nicolette Aubourg "Take the Guns Away" (El Segundo CA) Website
Russ Wheelock "Born To Blog" (Asheville NC) Website
Sharon Goldman "Sunset At the Border" (Metuchen NJ) Website
Susan Muranty, Sven Tydeman & Ritchie Neville "The Sky Falls Out Of You" Website
Michael Carpenter "Heaven" (Hopedale MA) Website
Stuart Kabak "We Still Like the Words to Our Song" (Parksville NY) Website
Arnold Brendan Osei "Rumble on The Mountain" (Tamale Northern Ghana) Website
Stuart Perkins " A Ship To Carry Me" (Virginia Beach VA) Website
Randy Emmons "Kiss Me Again" (El Segundo CA) Website
Robin Yukiko "Ocean Floor " (Arlington MA) Website
David Mathewes "An Important Song"  (Cumming GA) Website
Judy Kass "Best I Can" (Tarrytown NY) Website
Lianne Fournier " The Gift" (Winnipeg MB Canada) Website
Lynee Warren "Careless" (Joplin MO) Website
Ernest Boyd "My Unpaid Debt" (Fredericksburg VA) Website
John Stano "This Old Guitar" (Milwaukee WI) Website
Kendra Erika Fulmer "A Deeper Love" (Boca Raton FL) Website
Michael Orme "Under the Light of the Moon" (Madison TN) Website
Matt Mackey "Straight From the Bottle" (Nashville TN) Website
Mary Ann Young "Where Birds Can Fly" (Clinton TN) Website
Nathan Sankary "In Tune" (North Brunswick NJ) Website
Robert J. Campbell Jr. "Lady In the Harbor" (Plainview NY) Website
Susan Simonson & Joey Ebach "Waiting For Me" (White Plains NY) Website
Graham Good "Swing" (Loveland CO) 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

Jacob Graham "After All" (Cody WY) Website
Jill Fulton "Fuel To the Fire"  (Greencastle PA) Website
Joe Kocsis "My Red Neck Of the Woods (Myrtle Beach SC) Website
T. Edwin Doss "Radio Flyer" (Bumpass VA) Website
Michael McGee "Ocean Of Emotion" (Philipsburg PA) Website
Gordon “Mac” McDaniel & Josh Brown "Your Shot of Whiskey" (Germantown TN) Website
Cecil Burns "Me and Elvis and Jesus" (Kenora ON Canada) Website
Adam Klett "Worn"  (Wayland IA) Website
Ben Sigmund "Out Of the Blues" (Hockley TX) Website
Bob Harmon  "Trouble" (Yucaipa CA) Website
Charles Garman "Hustled"  (Mesquite NV) Website
Buddy Guido "The Left Can't Always Be Right"  (Mohawk NY) Website
Jim Allen "If I Could"  (Carlsbad CA) Website
Pierre Piponnian "To Be A Man" (La Habra Heights CA) Website
Matt Rogers "Coal" (Hermitage TN) Website

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CHRISTIAN / INSPIRATIONAL

John Cirillo/Craig Lackey/Tori Martin "A Million Colors"  (Nashville TN) Website
Brant Pethick & Jaylene Johnson "Worth It" (Ottawa ON Canada) Website
Charles Cook "Just Listen"  (Staten Island NY) Website
Monica Sigler "Thank You" (Nashville TN) Website
James Aldrich "Who I Am"  (Mulino OR) Website
Bruce Millar "Don't Look Back" (Verdun QC Canada) Website
Eugene Harrison "Grace" (Jamaica NY) Website
Tom Lazaros "Hell - No" (Flint MI) Website
Stephen Rew & Robert Jason "Redemption Road"  (Evergreen CO) Website
Dennis Bryan Coppens "There Is"  (Lakewood CA) Website
Katie Hardyman / Mick Evans "Always By Your Side" (Turramurra NSW Australia) Website
Pam Millsap  "Gifts Of Love" (Strafford MO) Website
Tommy Patterson "Come In the Water's Fine" (Comanche TX) Website
Mike Pojar "Power Over Sin" (Garden Grove CA) Website
Jacob Khatena "Jesus (Every Moment)"  (Fort Worth TX) Website
James Piper "With the Angels" (Apex NC) Website
John Lidfors "More Precious Than Gold"  (Culver City CA) Website
Michael H. Gagnon"Son and Reign" (Plainfield CT) Website

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FOLK / AMERICANA

Sue Fink "Battle of Ages" (Chicago IL Website
Mark Stepakoff "Settle Like Dust" (Waylan MA) Website
Maureen & Richard Hall "Uncomfortable" (Rolla MO) Website
R.X. Bertoldi "Small Sacrifices" (Everett WA) Website
Matthew Friddle "Moses In the Bullrushes" (Chicago IL) Website
Michael R. J. Roth & Mike P. Ryan "Streets Of Seattle" (Rio Rancho NM) Website
Angela Soffe "Freedom" (Yakima W) Website
Bob Fischer "Hail To the King (Poughkeepsie NY) Website
John Lansing "The Oldest Guy In The Room" (Happy Valley OR) Website
Maureen & Richard Hall "Land of Love" (Rolla MO) Website
Mark Stepakoff "Dillinger" (Waylan MA) Website
Jeannine Higgins "She's Nobody (Emily's Song)" (Kingwood TX) Website
Tim Jones "Blood and Bone" (Zionville NC) Website
Jeff Rolfzen & Rocky Steen-Rolfzen "Change Our Tune" (Eureka Springs AR) Website
Penny Swanson "Tug Of War" (Tacoma WA) Website
Bonnie Logan "I Dreamed" (Middle Grove NY) Website
Bill Kraker "The Olde King's Waltz" (Hinckley OH) Website
Ken Kahn "Bones" (Asheville NC) Website
Joe Jaber "Victim of My Song" (Novi MI) Website
Michael Gaither "Starlite Drive-In Saturday Night" (Watsonville CA) Website
Myrna Riquier "Hear That Train a Comin' (Chaplin CT) Website
Pete Papageorge "Bridge Of Roses" (Bethesda MD) Website
Scott Jackson "Florida Highway" (Summerfield FL) Website
Tim Winchester "We're So Lucky" (Yarmouth ME) Website
Stephen Sylvester "Home To Alabama" (Fairhope AL) Website

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INSTRUMENTAL

Bill Wren "Side Step" (Rockport TX) Website
Neil Telling "When Darkness Falls" (Chester Cheshire UK) Website
Gosia Julia Maj "No Words Needed" (Groningen Netherlands) Website Facebook
Garrett Clark"Remembrance" (Erie PA) Website
Mehrdad Shamsi "The Genesis of a God" (Costa Mesa CA) Website
Chihiro Nishi "Heath Moor" & "The Day I Saw An Airship" (Tokyo Japan) Website
Eddie Paton "Highway One" (Oakville ON Canada) Website
Dominique Bovard "Crepuscule" (Villeneuve sur Lot FRANCE) Website
Michael Miles "Yellowbird Concerto: Prelude" (Chicago IL) Website
Nathan Sankary "Breckenridge" (North Brunswick NJ) Website
Rita Lavelle Struik "Snow" (Alban ON Canada) Website
Frank Harritt "An American Easter: The Joy Of Mary M" (Arvada CO) Website
Tommy Patterson "Cleartone" (Comanche TX) Website
Devine Score "Pinnacle" (Tucson AZ) Website
John Evergon "Constant Departure" (Portland OR) Website
Chris West "Catch Me if You Can" (Goodlettsville TN) Website
George Gillen "Of Love And Dreams" & "Just We Two" (Brevard NC) Website
Neil Santos "Sound the Alarm" (Hudson NH) Website

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ROCK / ALT

Adam Radmanovich "I'll Be Your John Wayne" (Springfield TN) Website
Peter Mc Loughlin "Harpoon"  (Leinster Ireland) Website
Richard Adkins "Candy Apple Red" (East Dundee IL) Website
Debra M. Gussin "Break Me Open" (Los Angeles CA) Website
Amanda McCarthy "Elephant in the Room" (Hampton NH) Website
Matt Michaelis "Wishing Well" (Yuba City) Website
Simon Jackson "Bad Dog" (Auckland New Zealand) Website
Joel Covender "Bricklayer" (Akron OH) Website
Michael Sion "Don't Wanna Buy A Gun" (Reno NV) Website
Manuel R. Cotelo & Brandon Hans "Always Wanting More" (Ocean Gate NJ) Website
Griffin Keeffe "Come Out" (Saunderstown RI) Website
Gene Jacobs & Mick Walsh "Poisonous Lines" (Upper Montclair NJ) Website

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HIPHOP / R&B

O. Lee Myers "Touch Sensitive" (Van Nuys CA) Website
Jason Pendergast "Deja Nu"  (Los Angeles CA) Website
Latoya Wilkinson "Wavey" (Land O Lakes FL) Website
Drake Childress "In The Middle" (Los Angeles CA) 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

Russ Wheelock "Born To Blog" (Asheville NC) Website
Brad Guldemond "Good Good Medicine" (Waterloo ON Canada) Website
Marla Lewis "Gravity" (Wantagh NY) Website
Michael McGee "Beam Me Up Scotty" (Philipsburg PA) Website
Randi Fay "Joy Whispered" (Green Bay WI) Website
Undercover Funtime "Please Don't" (Lafayette LA) Website
Jace K. Seavers "The Toymaker Of Hades" (Nashville TN) Website
J Edna Mae Thomas "Trail Of Kind" (Swansea UK) Website
Jeanne Marie Tidwell "Younique" (Palm Beach Gardens FL) Website
Glenn Valles "Christmas In My Soul" (Maharashtra India) Website
Emmanuel Carlos St.Omer "Christmas On An Island Shore" (Castries St. Lucia) Website
James Polen "Ho Ho Ho-hum Christmas" (Nashville TN)
Sherry-Lynn Lee & George Paolini "Let a Day Together Be Christmas" (Los Angeles CA) Website
Russell Wheelock "Who Hung This Target On My Back " (Asheville NC) website
Richard & Maureen Hall "When God Farts" (Rolla MO) Website
Jeffrey Gardner " Binge Baby Binge" (Glendale NY) Website
Hertzel Gerstein "A Christmas Song" (Toronto ON Canada) Website
David Chong "Google You" (Honolulu HI) Website
Paul Fusco "Coffee Break" (Cranston RI) Website
Marsha Goodman-Wood "Hey Pluto" (Washington DC) Website
Russ Wheelock "Grease the Latch" (Asheville NC) Website
Jeffrey Gardner "Jew In the Choir" (Glendale NY) Website
Lon Conklin "Bullfrog Song" (Woodstock NY) Website
Carolyn Anele "I'm A Baby" (Vernon BC Canada) Website
Meryl Danziger "I’m Hard Boiling Eggs(Dreaming of You) (New York NY) Website
Gayle Skidmore "Let's Have a Merry Christmas" (Hilversum Noord Holland) Website
Robert Guilliams "Roadkill Cafe" (The Villages FL) Website
Jeffrey Moxcey "Wash Your Wiener" (Waterville ME) Website
Philip Adams "My Christmas Wish" (Quincy MA) Website

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LYRIC WRITING

Michael R. J. Roth & Mike P. Ryan "Streets Of Seattle" (Rio Rancho NM) Website
Nancy Haase "I Like Me This Way (Antioch TN) Website
Michelle Porter "Evergreen" (Rapid City SD) Website
Tyler Coursolle "Summmer" (London ON Canada) Website
Steve Wessel "Murder After Midnight" (Lawndale CA Website
Elizabeth Auzan "The Truth" (Lausanne SWITZERLAND) Website
J Edna Mae Thomas "Trail of Kind" (Swansea UK) Website
Connie Vigil "Shadow Side" & "He Set My Soul To Poetry" (Fort Walton Beach FL) Website
Katie Hardyman-Mick Evans "Always By Your Side" (Turramurra NSW Australia) Website
Stephen Rew "Redemption Road (Evergreen CO) Website
T. Edwin Doss "Way Back When" (Bumpass VA) Website
Nancy Cleveland "Serenade" (Cobourg ON Canada) Website
Rhonda Gessow "Close At Hand: (Woodside CA) Website
Steve Norton "Redneck Eulogy" (Panama City FL) Website
KC Craine "Daddy's Old Guitar" (Portland OR) Website
Amanda Bryant "The Ballad of Casey Ann" (Elgin SC) Website
Jack Thornton "Fairy Tale" (Perryville MD) Website
Jacob Dorris "Amalia" (Naples FL) 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