Ben Peters

Ben Peters
Birth nameBenjamin James Peters
Born(1933-06-20)June 20, 1933
Greenville, Mississippi, U.S.
DiedMay 25, 2005(2005-05-25) (aged 71)
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
OccupationSongwriter

Benjamin James Peters (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. 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.

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