- Personal name
- Rory Michael Bourke
- Born
- July 14, 1942
- Country
- United States
- IPI
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00003913221 62 works
00041426609 39 works
- Affiliation
- BMI
- Comments
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Bourke, best known for co-writing "the Most Beautiful Girl", was a staff songwriter at Chappell Music and at PolyGram Music. He formed his own song-publishing company in 1994.
Bourke was named ASCAP's Country Songwriter of the Year in 1975, 1979 and 1983, and he has received four Grammy Award nominations for Country Song of the Year. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1989. - Ranking
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1686th most covered composer/author
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