National Academy of Songwriters Stevie Wonder, Los Lobos, Willie Dixon, Atlantic Starr, Stephen Stills, Michael Bolton, Melissa Manchester, Stephen Bishop, Brian Wilson, Kim Carnes, Michael McDonald, and many others. Also performing over the years at the "Salute To The American Songwriter" concerts were songwriting legends such as Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Barry Mann, Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, Richard Sherman, John Bettis, Diane Warren, and many others. In 1988, the National 'Academy' of Songwriters teamed with VH-1 for the "Fourth Annual Salute To The American Songwriter" which was televised on VH-1 and Showtime in 1989. In 1996, the Los Angeles Songwriters Showcase (LASS)
Homologous somatic pairing it is mechanistically related to meiotic pairing is unknown. The first review of somatic pairing was made by Metz in 1916, citing the first descriptions of pairing made in 1907 and 1908 by N. M. Stevens in germline cells, who noted: “it may therefore be true that pairing of homologous chromosomes occurs in connection with each mitosis throughout the life history of these insects” (p.215) Stevens noted the potential for communication and a role in heredity. While meiotic homologous pairing subsequently became well studied, somatic pairing remained neglected due to what has been described as ""limitations in cytological tools for