Clef Awards Ceremony Presented under the auspices of Tune Dex Digest and Tune Dex Song Survey The recipients of these awards comprised the writers of the ten top-selling songs for the sales period from the summer of 1944 to the summer of 1945. Irving Berlin was presented with a special Clef for "God Bless America" as "outstanding morale song of the second World War." Other special Clefs went to Frank Loesser, Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers. awards ceremony 1945-09-28T20:30:00