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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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