The same year he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame two years later.

The same year, Orbison was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and initiated into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Bruce Springsteen, who concluded his speech with a reference to his own song " Thunder Road ": " I wanted a record with words like Bob Dylan that sounded like Phil Spector — but, most of all, I wanted to sing like Roy Orbison.

* Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame ( 1987 )

* 1990 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee

He was posthumously inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002.

Called " the King of Rockabilly ", he was inducted into the Rock and Roll, the Rockabilly, and the Nashville Songwriters Halls of Fame ; and was a Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipient.

Also during 1985, Perkins was inducted to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and in 1987, wider recognition of his contribution to music came with his induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Despite his lack of schooling, Snow was a gifted songwriter and in 1978 was elected to Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

The Songwriters Hall of Fame inducted Kristofferson in 1985, as had the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1977.

* Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970, and he was also inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010.

Autry is a member of both the Country Music Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and is the only person to be awarded stars in all five categories on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for film, television, music, radio, and live performance.

He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1969 and to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

Robbins was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975.

* Robbins page at Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

Stevens was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1980 as well as the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.

* 1980: Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

Despite dying in relative obscurity, A. P. Carter was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

* Nashville Songwriters Foundation

In 1971, Bob Nolan and Tim Spencer were both elected to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

* 1984: elected to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

Holyfield is the current chairman of the Nashville Songwriters Foundation.

The Garden also hosted the 2005 Country Music Association Awards ( normally held in Nashville ).

The Americana Music Association held its annual Americana Honors and Awards Show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, September 2005.

Empresarios " Sterling C. Robertson: Texas Association / Nashville Co ." and Robert Leftwich received a grant from the Coahuila y Tejas legislature to settle 800 families.

A training technician from the Arkansas Rural Water Association helped the utility operators establish a temporary connection to the neighboring Nashville Rural Water System until the National Guard could deliver a pair of portable water purification systems.

On October 16, 2007 Styx received the " Lifetime Achievement Award " from IEBA ( International Entertainment Buyers Association ) in Nashville, Tennessee.

Schmittou and team owners arrived at terms in June 1984 to purchase the Evansville Triplets of the American Association, with plans to move the franchise from Evansville, Indiana, to Nashville for the 1985 season.

Whereas the Country Music Association, founded in 1958, was based in Nashville, the Academy sought to promote country music in the western states.

The Country Music Association ( CMA ) was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Nashville is the seat of the National Baptist Convention, USA, the National Association of Free Will Baptists, the Gideons International, the Gospel Music Association, and Thomas Nelson, the world's largest producer of Bibles.

These developments were not welcomed by the frontiersmen who had gained a foothold on the western Cumberland River at Fort Nashborough ( now Nashville ), or the Overmountain Men of the old Watauga Association.

The College of Business is accredited by AACSB, the Association of Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International or AACSB International ; the first in Nashville to earn dual accreditation of both the undergraduate and graduate programs in 1994.

He became one of the founding members of the Country Music Association in Nashville, Tennessee and spearheaded the effort to build the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

On November 5, 1935, representatives of the General Conference ( Palmer ) and the Cooperative General Association ( a mixture of Randall and Palmer elements west of the Mississippi ) met in Nashville, Tennessee to unite and organize the National Association of Free Will Baptists.

The National Association of Free Will Baptists ( NAFWB ) is a national body of Free Will Baptist churches in the United States and Canada, organized on November 5, 1935 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Representatives of the " Palmer " ( General Conference ) and " Randall " ( Cooperative General Association ) groups of Free Will Baptists met at Cofer's Chapel in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1935 and organized the National Association of Free Will Baptists as a merger of the two groups.

Two colleges, the Free Will Baptist Bible College in Nashville, Tennessee, and the Hillsdale Free Will Baptist College in Moore, Oklahoma, are affiliated with the Association.

He has been a member of the board of directors of the Nashville Songwriters Association International, ( NSAI ) for almost 25 years.

In 1996, the Nashville Music Association nominated the band for their Independent Artist of the Year award.

The National Women's Football Association ( NWFA ) was a full-contact American football league for women headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

The National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association awarded Munson its state-based Sportscaster of the Year Award on multiple occasions: 1960 ( WSM, Nashville ), 1963 ( WSM ), 1964 ( WSM ), 1965 ( WSM ) and 1969 ( WSIX, Nashville ) as the Tennessee Sportscaster of the year ; 1967 ( WSB, Atlanta ), 1971 ( WRFC, Athens ), 1982 ( Georgia Network, Atlanta ), 2002 ( WSB ) as the Georgia Sportscaster of the year.