Ben Peters | |
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| Birth name | Benjamin James Peters |
| Born | June 20, 1933 Greenville, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Died | May 25, 2005 (aged 71) Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Occupation | Songwriter |
Benjamin James Peters[1] (June 20, 1933 – 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.[2] 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.[3]