22nd Annual Great American Song Contest
GASC HONOR FINALISTS / 2020

Outstanding songs were discovered all categories of the  22nd Annual Great American Song Contest. GASC Judges reviewed songs by more than 1900 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 2020 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 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 YouTube video, please send us the link so we can add with 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

Aimee Felise & Vasyl Tkach "What You're Searching For" (Temecula CA)  Website
Debra Gussin & Stacy Hogan "Miss the Heat" (Los Angeles CA)  Website
Kit Taylor "Lions" (Hillsboro OR)  Website
Celeste Newman / Mark Crocker "Walk the Plank" (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)  Website
Greg Slyford & Keegan Ferrell  "How Many More (Fort Wayne IN)  Website
KailynSmith / EthanHulse / NickSchwarz "Call Me When You Grow Up" (Nashville TN)  Website
Kendra Erika Fulmer "Avalanch" (Boca Raton FL)  Website
Sakezia Kelly "Like You" (Scottdale GA)  Website
Mary Sprouse "Purr" (Las Vegas NV)  Website
Kailyn Smith / Ethan Hulse / Nick Schwarz "Time Heals" (Nashville TN)  Website
Code Yellow "Electromance" (Boston MA)  Website
Jessica Delijani "Future Memories" (Thousand Oaks CA)  Website
Milagros Luna "Asses" (Edinburg TX)  Website
Barbara Christine Bechler "Words Of Ice" (Milton GA)  Website
Lara Chapman "White Lies" (Indianapolis IN)  Website
Jeremy Flick "Say the Words" (Lititz PA)  Website
Stephen Rowley & Stephen Kuc "Midnight Cinderella" (Chicago IL)  Website
Naimah Muhammad "L2LU (love to love you)" (Washington DC)  Website
Meg Pfeiffer "Just the Way You Are" (Duernau GERMANY)  Website
Joseph Lamar "Fear" Denver CO)  Website
Maria Diebolt "Boy, Bye" (Fishers IN)  Website
David Cicornio "Beautiful Things" (Vacaville CA)  Website
 

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ADULT CONTEMPORARY (AC)

Griffin Anthony "What A Lie Looks Like" (Brewster NY)  Website
Michael Gaither "Little Angels Everywhere" (Watsonville CA)  Website
Julie Ludgate "Here We Go Again" (Hampshire UK)  Website
Lynne Revo-Cohen "We're On Fire" Reston VA  Website
Matthew Wade "Maybe This Time" (Worcester MA)  Website
Angela Sclafani "Dead End" (New York NY)  Website
Ben Mason & Paul James "Destination Sky" (London UK)   Website
Paul Kostal "Funny Humanz " (Osborne Park AUSTRALIA)  Website
Rick Drost "Got A Little Corner" (Cambridge MA)  Website
Julie Ludgate "Firestorm" (Hamphshire UK)  Website
Jeff Leslie "Shooting Stars" (Webb City MO)  Website
Louis Nevins "On Your Birthday" (Columbia MO)  Website
Reagan Redfern "My Way To You" (Lakeway TX)  Website
Rex Pearce "The Grand Charade" (Mandeville LA)  Website

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SINGER-SONGWRITER

Adam Radmanovich & Emily Davis "Life Of A Songwriter" (Springfield TN)  Website
Sarah Spencer, Sasha Aaron & John Cirillo "Oh My Heart (Nashville TN)  Website
Kala Farnham "Firefly" (Pomfret Center CT)  Website
Yvonne Perea "Conquer The World" (Amarillo TX)  Website
Diane Hildreth "After Me" (McDonough GA)  Website
R.X. Bertoldi "Guiding Lights" (Everett WA)  Website
Elisa Annis (PENNER) "Criminal Daydreams" (Eureka CA)  Website
Mark Stepakoff "April Fools" (Wayland MA)  Website
Michael Flynn "Saluda" (Saluda NC)  Website
Michael Sion "There's Still Love" (Santa Rosa CA)  Website
Natalie Jean "I Am" (Kensington MD)  Website
Randy Emmons "Kiss Me Again" (Osprey FL)  Website
Garrett Long "Nicotine" (Harrisonburg VA)  Website
Scott Reynolds "Tracy Hardman's Cheek" (Fredonia NY)  Website
Steven Moss "As If There'd Never Been No Tragedy" (Portland OR)  Website
Hank Stone "This is My Country" (East Pstchogue NY)  Website
Tania Yegelwel "Robbery" (Atlanta GA)  Website
Stacy Gabel "Stir Crazy" (Emmaus PA)  Website
Pete Olsen  "Daydream (Victoria Australia)  Website
Mark Bishop Evans "Bitter Wind" (Haverhill MA  Website
Layla Frankel "You Can't Love Me" (Nashville TN)  Website
Kim Batzel "Crushed" (Peckville PA)  Website
Karyn Patridge "Who You Were" (Portland OR)  Website
Julia Riew "The Girl on the Screen" (Greenwich CT)  Website
Conner Cherland "Bootlickin' Betty" (Santa Barbara CA)  Website
Joe Banks "Take Care" (St. Paul MN)  Website
Haley Dreis "2020" (Sherman Oaks CA)  Website
Gwen Draut "Deep Sea Diver" (Denver CO)  Website
Bob Davoli "Transistor Radio and Me" (Lincoln MA)  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

Chris Michael "I Hope You Know" (Dallas TX)  Website
T. Edwin Doss "One RIch Man" (Bumpass VA)  Website
James Bignell "Three Chords and A Lie" (Kent UK)  Website
Emily Davis, Andrew Mack & Adam Radmanovich "Cowboy Up" (Springfield TN)  Website
Vince Guzzetta "You're the One I Want" (Morgan City LA)  Website
Ray Parello "You're Gonna Learn" (Columbus OH)  Website
Eric Blossman "Bad Choices" (Spicewood TX)  Website
Roy O'Neil "Call Nine-One-One" (Washington CT)  Website
Henrik Martensen "I'm Just Me" (Tranbjerg DENMARK)  Website
T. Edwin Doss "Wipers On the Windshield" (Bumpass VA)  Website
Linda Kasko "Tick Tock" (Simi Valley CA)  Website
Michael Gantt "That Twang" (Martinsburg WV)  Website
Kenneth Kahn "Sally McNally" (Asheville NC)  Website
Roy O'Neil "Don't Come Home Drunk" (Washington CT)  Website
Buddy Guido "Friends Don't Let Friends Drink Alone" (Mohawk NY) Website

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CHRISTIAN / INSPIRATIONAL

Charnell Jackson "Angels" (Tallahassee FL)  Website
Lisanne Keane "Where I End, You Begin" (Wrentham MA)  Website
Cynthia Lok "Wholly Devoted" (North Vancouver BC Canada)  Website
Tony Sbrana "I Am Not At Sea" (Danville CA)  Website
Bob Wallace "Jesus Walks The Shore With Me" (Big Bear Lake CA)  Website
Joseph Romeo "Our King Will Come" (Narrandera NSW Australia)  Website
Aryn Michelle Calhoun / Kaden Slay / Kristina Ray "Cast A Stone" (Irving TX)  Website
Dawn Kenney "Surrender" (North Waltham MA)  Website
Erica Maynord "At Home Now (Holy, Holy, Holy)" (Norman OK)  Website
Allen Browning "By My Spirit" (Idaho Falls ID)  Website
Jana Alayra "Every Minute that I Breathe" (Irvine CA)  Website
Leah McCoy & Mitch Vestel "Hope Lifter" (Johnson City NY)  Website
Cindy Bauchspies "Mustard Seed" (Annapolis MD)  Website
Russ Parrish "All of This and More" (Burnsville MN)  Website
Allison Waldron "Little Links Of Light" (Saint Albans NY)  Website
Amy Abernathy "New Sight" (White GA)  Website
Carol Ervin "Come Praise the Lord" (Harper Woods MI)  Website
Claudia Mautner "My Lord Jesus" (Northrhine-Westfalia GERMANY)  Website
Dennis Coppens "There Is" (Lakewood CA)  Website
Dino Ascari "Even Greater Things" (Melville NY)  Website
Wyatt Brewer "Out of Touch" (Northmoor MO)  Website
Doug McFarland "If I Fall" (Lenexa KS)  Website
Eric Defend "Forgiven" (White Heath IL)  Website
Ken Rhoads "Angel Radio" (Quincy MA)  Website
Kendra Erika Fulmer "In God's Hands" (Hot Springs AR)  Website
Kirsten Hanninen "Prayer Song" (Shakopee MN)  Website
Jude R. Tachias "Perfect Love" (Albuquerque NM)  Website
Mary Bass "I Look Up To Him" (Hot Springs AR)  Website
Rhonda Rattansingh "That First Christmas Night" (Katy TX)  Website
Matthew Stemme "Going Home" (Clayton NC)  Website

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FOLK / AMERICANA

Ynana Rose "Mendocino Sunrise" (San Luis Obispo CA)  Website
Scott Cook "Leave A Light On" (Sherwood Park AB Canada)  Website
Lon Conklin "Ukulele" (Woodstock NY)  Website
Daniel Kenny "Let's Go Home" (Frederick MD)  Website
Mark Stepakoff "Chevy Biscayne" (Wayland MA)  Website
John Keawe "We Are Ohana" (Kapaau HI)  Website
Len Seligman "True, Helpful, and Kind" (Sarasota FL)  Website
Michael Gaither & John Cirillo "Hey Karma" (Watsonville CA)  Website
Richard Martin "The Ballad of Verna Keller" (Boise ID)  Website
Aaron Laughlin "Park Swings" (McKinleyville CA)  Website
Curt Joa "If This Is Us" (Kohler WI)  Website
Arielle Silver "You Were  LIght" (North Hollywood CA)  Website
Roy Gamse "First Kiss" (Arlington VA)  Website
Gabriel Coia "The Dead of Devil's Den" (Glenmoore PA)  Website
Michael R. J. Roth "Gun For Hire" (Rio Rancho NM)  Website
C. Richard Krim "Jesus Sings the Blues" (Millstadt IL)  Website
Kim Moberg  "Angels Fly" (Centerville MA)  Website
Patrick Nagel "Angelina" (Ukiah CA)  Website
Pete Papageorge "Bridge of Roses" (Bethesda MD)  Website
Philip Bowen "Old Kanawha" (Brownstown Township MI)  Website
Scott Ireland "Faster Horse" (Willits CA) Website
Steve Spurgeon "Let's Save America" (Bellevue NE)  Website
Suzanne Dean "Shenandoah Girl" (Brookline MA Website

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INSTRUMENTAL

Samer Fanek "Tides" (Daly City CA)  Website
William Frierson "Elizabeth" (Atlanta GA)  Website
Andre Kerek "Heart In Vain (Miami FL)  Website
Kota Fukuda "Sunset Road" (Nagasaki JAPAN)  Website
Paul Stewart "What Was That?" (Winfield IL)  Website
George Karagiannis "Memory" (Athens GREECE)  Website
Hal Dickens & Paul Cassidy "Angels In My Bedroom" (Buffalo Grove IL)  Website
William Perry "If You Love Me" (Gaithersburg MD)  Website
Fios de Choro "Trama (São Paulo Brazil)  Website
Tomer George Cohen "L.M.G. No Way" (Gan HaShomron ISRAEL) Website
Steve Bradford "One Day" (Raleigh NC)  Website
Serge Moore "Apocalypse" (Lachine QB Canada)  Website
Lila Villasenor "Central Park Lagoon" (West Nyack NY)  Website
Michael Bain "Sunflower Waltz" (Arlington TX)  Website
Samer Fanek "Broken Dreams" (Daly City CA)  Website
Raelyn Olson "Together" (Portland OR)  Website
Katie Hardyman "Before You Close Your Eyes" (Sydney AUSTRALIA)  Website
Len Seligman "On the Caravan (Sarasota FL)  Website
Julius Davis "Bad by My Damn Self" (Lehigh Acres FL)  Website
Jeffrey Carter "Groove City" (Melbourne FL)  Website
Jay Vonada "Sprinkes (Aaronsburg PA)  Website
George Gillen "Just We Two" (Brevard NC)  Website
Jared Murphy "Triumphant" (Carthage IL)  Website
David Brown "Controlled Positive Energy" (London UK)  Website
Dave Crum "Forgotten Days" (Ridgefield Park NJ)  Website
Chihiro Nishi "To the Lightship" (Tokyo JAPAN)  Website
Ben Geil "Mestizo" (Los Gatos CA)  Website

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ROCK / ALT

Michael P. Young "Path To Peace Of Mind" (Omaha NE)  Website
Lauren Brombert "We Got This" (Denver CO)  Website
Andrew Santora "Virus"  (Ridgefield CT ) Website
Louis Loria "Circle" (Sherman CT) Website
R.L. Wolf "Zombie Nation" (Pflugerville TX)  Website
Bob Leggett "Gravedigger (Madison NC)  Website
Lottie Corley "My Mistake (Littleton NC)  Website
Kevin Beadles "Damned If I Know (Berkeley CA) Website
Scott Krentz "Karma" (Long Valley NJ)  Website
Laurie Miller "I Like You (Lynnwood WA)  Website
Eimear O'Sullivan "Sun Arise"  (Dublin IRELAND)  Website
Douglas John Reynolds "Donnie's On the Roof" (Minden NV)  Website
Aaron Cheney "The Speed of Lead" (Kent WA)  Website

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HIPHOP / R&B

Eric Walls "I Apologize" (Raleigh NC)  Website
Jelani Clay "Let Go" (Houston TX)  Website
Mark Ringold "Gre3 D" (Niles OH)  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

J Edna Mae & Susan Muranty "Glitter Is Litter" (Swansea UK)  Website Website
Tom Smith "Stripes and Spots" (Dedham MA)  Website
Winston Coles "Christmas Tree Eyes" (Conception Bay NL Canada)  Website
Kathaleen Hancock Todd "Snap Tap Clap Be Happy" (Canon City CO)  Website
Susan Mannino "The COVID-19 Lament" (New Tripoli PA)  Website
Beth Olson "Let's Put On A Show" (Menomonie WI)  Website
Charleene Closshey "Ave Maria" (Plant City FL)  Website
Josh A. Rodriguez "Czeck-Out Blues" (Buskirk NY)  Website  
John Bradberry "Colors" (Charlotte NC)  Website  
Dawn Kenney "Blue In the Blue Ridge This Christmas" (North Waltham MA)  Website
Lois Gilbert and Tony LaVorgna "Im A Cockroach" (Meriden CT)  Website
Paul Coleman "I Do (Father-Daughter Dance)" (Wappingers Falls NY)  Website
Cindy Bauchspies "Sleep Song" (Annapolis MD)  Website
Scott Anthony Thompson / Scott Anthony Andrews "Santa Plays His Saxophone" (Regina SK Canada)  Website
Adam Levowitz "I Want to Be Jewish - A Letter to Santa" (Huston TX)  Website

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LYRIC WRITING

Roy Gamse "Fingers Intertwined " (Arlington VA) Website
Sidney Selvig "Where Are You" (Dorr MI)  Website
Scott "Bowie" Smith "Where the River Runs Clear" (Columbus OH)  Website
Mark Stepakoff "“They’re not Making Love Like That Anymore" (Wayland MA)  Website
Kelli Caldwell "The Smilers" (Portland OR)  Website
Yvonne (Johnnie) Stanfield "That Girl" (Asheville NC)  Website
Roy Gamse "Picture Window" (Arlington VA) 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