but now john prine is getting his due now. his story. ♪ >> reporter: radio city music hall was sold out this spring for john prine. ♪ sometimes my old life is a washing machine ♪ ♪ it lik bounces around most al comes clean ♪ >> reporter: the 72-year-old singer is experiencing a late career renaissance. >> my audience has almost doubled in the last ten years. p>> reporter: and he has just been nominated for both the songwriters hall of fame and the rock & roll hall of fame. are you enjoying this resurgence? >> it took some of them 45 years to get the joke, and some people are getting it now, and i'm still around to reap the benefits. >> reporter: a songwriter revered by other songwriters like bob dylan and bruce springsteen. ♪ oh, people, they just grow lonesome ♪ >> reporter: john prine's tunes have been sung by bette midler. ♪ hey, hello and there, hello >> reporter: johnny cash -- ♪ welcome home, didn't last too long ♪ >> reporter: and bonnie raitt. ♪ make me an angel that flies ♪ when you got hell to pay, but the truth don'

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at 72, prine talked about his late career renaissance for "cbs sunday morning." the joke. they're getting it now, and i'm still around to reap the benefits. ♪ how old do you think i am he said ♪ kent thallhe hall.nu-one "olgs children, and watermelon wine" which "rolling stone" ranked as one of the best 100 songs. ay bt known for the number-one smash genie c. riley had with his song "harper valley pta," in 1968. ♪ today my momma went to the harper valley pta ♪ ♪ so i creeped yeah >> tlc's first number-one hit, "creep," in 1994 was written by dallas austin who enters the song decrease writers hall of fame. austin has also written hits for boys to men. ♪ with madonna on "secret" -- ♪ something's coming over me and with gwen stefani on "cool." ♪ to all that we've been through i know we're cool ♪ jack temtion wrote his best-known song on the floor in a club of california scribbling words on the back of a poster. then in 1972, the eagles recorded "peaceful, easy their i know you won't let me down ♪ >> he would co-write more hits for the band, and with its leader, glen