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How A Guy, Who Passed Away 34 Years Ago, Just Topped Billboard’s Songwriters 100 · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Billboards Songwriters one hundred
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  Speaker 1: ranks the most successful songwriters week by week based on
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  Speaker 1: how successful their songs are on the current charts, and
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  Speaker 1: typically it's dominated by modern artists and producers you know
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  Speaker 1: by name, like Benny Blanc or Farrell Louis Bell. The
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  Speaker 1: guy at the top of the list right now is
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  Speaker 1: the first to ever top the list posthumously, and he's
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  Speaker 1: been gone since. The late Great Johnny Marks rocketed to
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  Speaker 1: number one thanks to two timeless holiday classics that he
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  Speaker 1: penned on his own, re entering the hot one hundred,
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  Speaker 1: Burrow Lives Holly Jolly Christmas at forty eight and Brenda
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  Speaker 1: Lee's Rocking Around the Christmas Tree at twenty nine. Chances
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  Speaker 1: are Johnny isn't going anywhere over the holiday season because
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  Speaker 1: he also wrote Gene Autry's Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
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  Speaker 1: and Chuck Berry's Run Rudolph Run. That's direct from Hollywood