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Bobby Braddock has written more than a dozen #1 country hits, including standards such as Tammy Wynette\u2019s \u201cD-I-V-O-R-C-E\u201d and George Jones\u2019 \u201cHe Stopped Loving Her Today,\u201d which is frequently ranked as the greatest country song of all time. George Jones began finding success with Braddock\u2019s songs in the 1970s with hits such as \u201cNothing Ever Hurt Me (Half As Bad As Losing You)\u201d and \u201cHer Name Is\u2026\u201d Jones and his then-wife, Tammy Wynette, also scored with Bobby\u2019s \u201cWe\u2019re Not the Jet Set\u201d and \u201cGolden Ring,\u201d while Tammy found solo success with \u201cWomanhood\u201d and \u201cThey Call It Making Love.\u201d Other Braddock-penned hits from the 1970s include \u201cI Believe the South is Gonna Rise Again,\u201d which Tanya Tucker took to the Top 20, \u201cSomething to Brag About,\u201d which Mary Kay Place and Willie Nelson took to the Top 10, and \u201cCome On In,\u201d which was a hit for Jerry Lee Lewis in 1978. Bobby continued to reach the #1 position in the 1980s (\u201cI Feel Like Loving You Again\u201d and \u201cFaking Love\u201d by T.G. Shepard), the 1990s (\u201cTexas Tornado\u201d and \u201cTime Marches On\u201d by Tracy Lawrence), and the 2000s (\u201cI Wanna Talk About Me\u201d by Toby Keith and \u201cPeople Are Crazy\u201d by Billy Currington). He earned the CMA's Song of the Year award in both 1980 and 1981. He was, at the time, the youngest person inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1981, and he was honored with the BMI Icon award in 2011.\xa0Additionally, he discovered Blake Shelton and produced or co-produced Shelton's first five albums. Braddock was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2011, and was just inducted into the national Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015. He is the only living person to have written #1 country songs in five consecutive decades. His second memoir, entitled Bobby Braddock: A Life on Music Row will be released in the fall of 2015.