Songwriters and Songs

John Lennon was my favorite Beatle. You can pick his songs almost at random and come up with gold.

A manuscript of Like a Rolling Stone sold for $2 million today.

I consider Kristofferson a good songwriter, just ordinary as a vocalist

Harry Belafonte had a hand in writing this song.

And he wrote this

The Stones write lots of songs

Woody's greatest song

Paul Anka was a prolific songwriter. He wrote this one for the girl who spurned him

Fats had cowriters but he wrote many songs

Marty Robbins is alright but his singing sometimes sounds as if somebody's hands are around his throat half-choking him

Steve Goodman wrote these

Cohen writes most of his own stuff. Here are two of my favorites

Don Gibson is one of my top favorites

Not that many people know who Fred Rose was. He wrote hit songs that were recorded by top country and pop artists

Ray Charles wrote lots of good ones too

Save Country Music

On July 5th 1980 , George Jones went to Number One with what many consider the best Country song of all time."He Stopped Loving Her Today"was written by Curly Putman and Bobby Braddock. Johnny Russell recorded the song before George but it was never released to the public & Jones returned it to Putman & Braddock citing it needed another verse and have the love intrest return at the end which they added to the song & returned it. Jones was rarely sober in the time period it was recorded & in such bad shape health wise that it took him nearly 18 monthes to finish it. On top of that Jones & producer Billy Sherrill clashed as George kept trying to perform the song to the melody of "Help Me Make It Through The Night". Jones did finally nail the song but wasn't impressed and thought it was to sad and told Sherrill that "Nobody'll buy that morbid son of a bitch". It would go on to be the biggest song of his career , win dozens of awards and would close his shows with it for decades afterwards.The week after Jones' death the song re-entered the Hot Country Songs chart at No. 21.

Waters became the band's primary lyricist, and by the mid-1970s, their dominant songwriter, devising the original concepts behind their critically and commercially acclaimed albums The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), The Wall (1979) and The Final Cut (1983).

Bobby Darin wrote many songs in his short life.

People often credit Hank Williams with writing all of his hit songs. But he did not. He was unable to read or notate music to any significant degree. Among the hits he wrote were "Your Cheatin' Heart", "Hey, Good Lookin'", and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry".