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Ben Peters

Ben Peters is credited on 2,424 releases across 740 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1965–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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2,424

Pressings credited

740

Albums

7

Decades active

121

In collections

Biography

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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Credited work

2,424 releases · 740 albums · active 1965–2025

  • Performance · 2,707
  • Other credits · 23
  • Production · 19

Studios: RCA Victor Studios, Nashville · Sugar Hill Studios · Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville · Jack Clement Recording Studios

Discography

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