As the Meek Mill and Drake feud rolls on, ghostwriting is a hot topic. While the rappers continue to tangle — one fiery tweet and diss track at a time — we look at the artists whose hit songs were penned by other artists and songwriters. From Frank Sinatra to Rihanna, music...
From the wiki: “Written by Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Jerry Butler, ‘A Brand New Me’ was first recorded by Butler in 1969. Dusty Springfield would cover the song later that year, adding it as the title track to her albumA Brand New Me. It is Springfield’s only album on which ...
As the Meek Mill and Drake feud rolls on, ghostwriting is a hot topic. While the rappers continue to tangle -- one fiery tweet and diss track at a time -- we look at the artists whose hit songs were penned by other artists and songwriters. From Frank Sinatra to Rihanna, music stars...
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BERG: The final data set is pretty comprehensive. It captures virtually the entire history of pop music from 1959 to 2010. It includes data on over three million songs by about 70,000 artists. It took us about three years total to build. A lot of data on music exists, but for the pu...
“In 1934, John A. & Alan Lomax counted some 300 published versions in theirAmerican Ballads And Folk Songs. Comment of the Lomaxes: ‘No one has ever publicly heard the same version twice, unless from two convict performers who shared the same cell for years.’ These 300 variations begged...
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Alert to a trend, other publishers began scouting for Christmas songs, which led to 25 year-old composer and future bandleader Raymond Scott scoring his first success withChristmas Night In Harlem(1934), recorded notably by a now-unconstrained Whiteman, featuring lyricist/singer Johnny ...
Alert to a trend, other publishers began scouting for Christmas songs, which led to 25 year-old composer and future bandleader Raymond Scott scoring his first success withChristmas Night In Harlem(1934), recorded notably by a now-unconstrained Whiteman, featuring lyricist/singer Johnny Mercer...