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the real great songwriters
was looking at the AFI's top 100 movies and checked out the top 100 movie songs. The list is impressive (with come clunkers....Flashdance?!?), but got me thinking about the *really* great songwriters over the past 75 years or so. Lennon and McCartney were mentioned in another thread, but if you step back a bit you have (in no particular order)
Stephen Sondheim (with Leonard Bernstein for West Side Story) George and Ira Gershwin Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein Henry Mancini Irving Berlin Frederick Loewe and Alan Lerner Sondheim especially knocks me out...and West Side Story has amazing music throughout. |
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John Williams comes to mind, although I'd consider him more of a "composer" than "songwriter".
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Songwriters?
Johnny Mercer should be somewhere near the top of that list... Tim |
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My two favorite songwriters are Donald Fagen and Cy Coleman.
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See those are performers as well. I think Nostatic's list is just people whoe *write*. BTW, I'm f***ing ecstatic. I finally started getting around to recording my old bootleg and demo tapes into the PC. Some of this stuff I haven't heard in like 10 years. Old Neil Young live tapes, demos of Counting Crows and Smashing Pumpkins. It's like college all over again.
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I've always felt that Pete Townshend was a great songwriter.
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Add another one, Carol King.
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Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA.
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No I mean the people you mentioned weren't on that list for that reason. But I may be wrong. I personally think that you're more relevant if you do both write and perform. But I'm DIY like that. 
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Seriously? Randy Newman. Pure genius.
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I know this is gonna sound gay but I really like West Side Story and Grease.
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Billy Joel CSN&Y the Beatles The Who and I guess I've gotta add the Stones since I added the Who but now that makes it 6 instead of 5...oh well! Forgot to add Tom Petty.
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