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Lots of good choices but I'm going with Jim Steinman, Wrote many for Meat Loaf and others like Bonnie Tyler, Air Supply and Celine Dion.

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Hmm. Let me think who that could possibly be. Who was it again that wrote these?

  • ‘Love Me Do’
  • ‘P.S. I Love You’
  • ‘I Saw Her Standing There’
  • ‘Hold Me Tight’
  • ‘All My Loving’
  • ‘Can´t Buy Me Love’
  • ‘And I Love Her’
  • ‘Things We Said Today’
  • ‘Every Little Thing’
  • ‘What You´re Doing’
  • ‘Eight Days a Week’
  • ‘I’ll Follow the Sun’
  • ‘She’s A Woman’
  • ‘Another Girl’
  • ‘The Night Before’
  • ‘Tell Me What You See’
  • ‘I’m Down’
  • ‘I´ve Just Seen a Face’
  • ‘Paperback Writer’
  • ‘Yesterday’
  • ‘Drive My Car’
  • ‘I’m Looking Through You’
  • ‘Michelle’
  • ‘You Won’t See Me’
  • ‘Got To Get You Into My Life’
  • ‘Eleanor Rigby’
  • ‘For No One’
  • ‘Yellow Submarine’
  • ‘Good Day Sunshine’
  • ‘Here, There and Everywhere’
  • ‘Penny Lane’
  • ‘Hello, Goodbye’
  • ‘When I’m 64’
  • ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’
  • ‘Fixing a Hole’
  • ‘Lovely Rita’
  • ‘Getting Better’
  • ‘She’s Leaving Home’
  • ‘With a Little Help From My Friends’
  • ‘Sgt. Pepper´s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)’
  • ‘Magical Mystery Tour’
  • ‘Your Mother Should Know’
  • ‘The Fool on the HIll’
  • ‘Blackbird’
  • ‘Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da’
  • ‘Helter Skelter’
  • ‘Mother Nature’s Son’
  • ‘Rocky Raccoon’
  • ‘Wild Honey Pie’
  • ‘Back in the USSR’
  • ‘Lady Madonna’
  • ‘Hey Jude’
  • ‘I Will’
  • ‘Birthday’
  • ‘Honey Pie’
  • ‘Martha My Dear’
  • ‘Why Don´t We Do It in the Road?’
  • ‘All Together Now’
  • ‘Oh! Darling’
  • ‘You Never Give Me Your Money’
  • ‘Her Majesty’
  • ‘Golden Slumbers’
  • ‘Carry That Weight’
  • ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’
  • ‘The End’
  • ‘She Came In Through The Bathroom Window’
  • ‘Get Back’
  • ‘Two of us’
  • ‘Let It Be’
  • ‘The Long and Winding Road’
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2 hours ago, Utilit99 said:

Hmm. Let me think who that could possibly be. Who was it again that wrote these?

  • ‘Love Me Do’
  • ‘P.S. I Love You’
  • ‘I Saw Her Standing There’
  • ‘Hold Me Tight’
  • ‘All My Loving’
  • ‘Can´t Buy Me Love’
  • ‘And I Love Her’
  • ‘Things We Said Today’
  • ‘Every Little Thing’
  • ‘What You´re Doing’
  • ‘Eight Days a Week’
  • ‘I’ll Follow the Sun’
  • ‘She’s A Woman’
  • ‘Another Girl’
  • ‘The Night Before’
  • ‘Tell Me What You See’
  • ‘I’m Down’
  • ‘I´ve Just Seen a Face’
  • ‘Paperback Writer’
  • ‘Yesterday’
  • ‘Drive My Car’
  • ‘I’m Looking Through You’
  • ‘Michelle’
  • ‘You Won’t See Me’
  • ‘Got To Get You Into My Life’
  • ‘Eleanor Rigby’
  • ‘For No One’
  • ‘Yellow Submarine’
  • ‘Good Day Sunshine’
  • ‘Here, There and Everywhere’
  • ‘Penny Lane’
  • ‘Hello, Goodbye’
  • ‘When I’m 64’
  • ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’
  • ‘Fixing a Hole’
  • ‘Lovely Rita’
  • ‘Getting Better’
  • ‘She’s Leaving Home’
  • ‘With a Little Help From My Friends’
  • ‘Sgt. Pepper´s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)’
  • ‘Magical Mystery Tour’
  • ‘Your Mother Should Know’
  • ‘The Fool on the HIll’
  • ‘Blackbird’
  • ‘Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da’
  • ‘Helter Skelter’
  • ‘Mother Nature’s Son’
  • ‘Rocky Raccoon’
  • ‘Wild Honey Pie’
  • ‘Back in the USSR’
  • ‘Lady Madonna’
  • ‘Hey Jude’
  • ‘I Will’
  • ‘Birthday’
  • ‘Honey Pie’
  • ‘Martha My Dear’
  • ‘Why Don´t We Do It in the Road?’
  • ‘All Together Now’
  • ‘Oh! Darling’
  • ‘You Never Give Me Your Money’
  • ‘Her Majesty’
  • ‘Golden Slumbers’
  • ‘Carry That Weight’
  • ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’
  • ‘The End’
  • ‘She Came In Through The Bathroom Window’
  • ‘Get Back’
  • ‘Two of us’
  • ‘Let It Be’
  • ‘The Long and Winding Road’

You lose I said song writer and not plural. That said yea they wrote some great ones.

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1 hour ago, BeenHereBefore said:

You lose I said song writer and not plural. That said yea they wrote some great ones.

Paul McCartney wrote all those songs. 

So basically what you are saying now is, anyone who wrote a song that was in a really good band, doesn't get credit for writing that song. 

Why even have this thread?

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10 minutes ago, Utilit99 said:

Paul McCartney wrote all those songs. 

So basically what you are saying now is, anyone who wrote a song that was in a really good band, doesn't get credit for writing that song. 

Why even have this thread?

To pee you off is why the thread lol. No if they wrote the song all by themself they get credit.

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3 minutes ago, BeenHereBefore said:

To pee you off is why the thread lol. No if they wrote the song all by themself they get credit.

No. You said:

1 hour ago, BeenHereBefore said:

You lose I said song writer and not plural. That said yea they wrote some great ones.

 

But those were written by McCarthy. So what was your point?

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10 minutes ago, Utilit99 said:

No. You said:

 

But those were written by McCarthy. So what was your point?

If so him alone then good choice even though think some of them suck and am a Beatles fan. Just a Opinion post and no wrong answer and you still get a trophy for participating. Trophy was handed out on your last post.

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Neil Young 

Bob Marley

some my personal favorites J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr, Doug Martsch of Built to Spill.

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2 hours ago, supermike80 said:

Bernie Taupin

he was only a lyricist, Elton composed the music - i'd say their combined efforts rank as high as any not named Lennon/McCartney. 

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8 hours ago, BeenHereBefore said:

To pee you off is why the thread lol. No if they wrote the song all by themself they get credit.

Why don’t you list the  great Jim Steinman R&R songs so we can compare. 
 

and don’t throw any of the Pop crap in there. Your idea of R&R and mine are very different.

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32 minutes ago, Herbivore said:

Neil Young 

Bob Marley

some my personal favorites J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr, Doug Martsch of Built to Spill.

Saw Built to Spill a few years ago - great live show. :cheers: 

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14 hours ago, BeenHereBefore said:

Lots of good choices but I'm going with Jim Steinman, Wrote many for Meat Loaf and others like Bonnie Tyler, Air Supply and Celine Dion.

Not one rock & roll band here…

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Warren Zevon

 

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2 hours ago, kutulu said:

Lemmy :headbanger:

I am the one, Orgasmatron.  :thumbsup:

 

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The writer of Elton John songs. 
Taylor Swift and Tupac.

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Otis Blackwell (yes, he was black)

When Elvis Presley recorded one of his songs, the result was 1956's epochal "Don't Be Cruel," which was simultaneously Number One on the pop, R&B and country charts. Blackwell subsequently gave Elvis "All Shook Up" and "Return to Sender," and wrote a cluster of hits for other artists, including "Great Balls of Fire" for Jerry Lee Lewis. And even though Blackwell's own singing career never took off, it's been noted that his vocals on demos of songs that Presley recorded were followed faithfully by the King. "At certain tempo, the way Elvis sang was the result of copying Otis' demos," said Blackwell's friend Doc Pomus. Oddly, Blackwell and Presley never met.

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a handful of my faves are....

Neil Peart ( Rush )

 Kerry Livgren ( Kansas )

Tom Petty

Dennis DeYoung ( Styx )

Don Henley (Eagles )

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12 hours ago, MDC said:

Saw Built to Spill a few years ago - great live show. :cheers: 

🐮 Moooo....

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