Before Bob Dylan, The Beatles and others it was quite common for song writers to write songs and performers to play them.

While I have nothing against a good singer/songwriter, I think the fact that you pretty much HAD to write your own songs damaged the music industry.

Great song writers are not always great singers and great singers are not always great song writers.

It's too bad the recording industry decided that the two modes couldn't coexist.

From Tin Pan Alley to the Brill Building to the composer at Stax and Motown, and so on, great songwriters wrote the American Songbook. I could list 100 names that penned thousands of classic songs here but if you look at the song credits of the classics, you'll see them again and again and again.

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