November's Songwriting Contest Results

The November 2007 songwriting winners have been announced. The songs were judged on songwriting alone. Vocal ability was not taken into consideration. A full instrumental production was also not required. For example, Janet Thomas won the "Country Category" with a simple vocal/acoustic guitar recording. Renee Giamos won the "Adult Contemporary" category with a simple vocal/piano recording. 

A special congratulations to Boyan Radoslavov who won the "Lyric Only" category as well as receiving a finalist placement in the "Rock Category" in November's round. Song of the Year maintains a different set of judges each month to ensure that different opinions are determining the winners throughout the year. December 2007 is the last chance to enter your material into the 2007 songwriting competition.

 

* Songs in MP3 Format

Folk

Winner

Shawn Thies - New Beginnings at Christmas

Finalists Mark Winholz - Hold Me, Mommy Durinda Montoya - With You, With Me Drew Brody - Prove Me Wrong William Ned Miller - I Still Say (One Nation Under God)

Country

Winner

Janet Thomas - Take Your Time

Finalists Art Dickerson - Lie Douglas E Sparks - One Step Closer James Bennett - Souls Collide Arthur DeMonte - All American Country Girl

Pop

Winner

Michael Logen - Mystery

Finalists Jacqueline Lopez - Detox Peter Farrell & Peter Charlton - Every Day (I Climb A Mountain) Kolade Olamide - I Just Wanna Be The One Kylie Edmond - Weak

Lyric Only

Winner

Boyan Radoslavov - Dreamless Eyes

Finalists Tommy Keeler - I Wanna Go Fast Mandy Gale - I Learned It From A Fool Shaqita L Garrett - Wasn't The One Dinky Wesley - It's The Way He Looks At Me

Adult Contemporary

Winner

Renee Giamos - I Saw Myself With You

Finalists Johann G Johannsson - I'm Gone Paul La Bonte - Shake Hands With The Moon The Phoenix - Alive Scott MacPherson & Megan Rzepski - Santa You Make Me Hot

Gospel/Christian

Winner

Chad Boswell - I'm Free

Finalists Abraham & Liza Philip - How Great Is Your Kindness Mary Desmond - I Only Pray For Peace Amy Oberg - Away Delray Agnes - Tell Somebody

Instrumental/Jazz/World

Winner

Marco Pesci - Happinity

Finalists Ronnie Hedderick - Love Song Russ Allen - Oh My Baby Jim Hawthorne - Laurali Gogoshka Kinkladze - Just Lucky

Rock

Winner

Shaun Frank - Don't Let Go

Finalists Howard Herrick - One Love Richard Ippoliti - Told Me Where To Go Boyan Radoslavov - False Ritual Frank L Pietrantoni - Back On Track

Hip-Hop/R&B

Winner

Jamal Tillery - I Must Pray

Finalists Ragni Elisabeth Funner - Back And Forth Darius Glover - What Don't Kill Me Mahyar Jamy Bagheri - The Violin's Cry Sheraw - Gold Diggas

Electronic/Dance

Winner

Michelle Evans - Energy

Finalists Laurie Miller - Sex Candy Jonathan C Nicholson - Just Waiting Hrvoje Dimic - House Party Kanera McEady - 3 Step