Which Song Do You Wish You'd Written?

[tex]

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My way, yesterday, and white christmas

[amethyst]

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I'll be Alright without you-Journey

[spuggybridge]

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there is a light that never goes out by the smiths

[matt321]

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I wish i had written a couple of songs but the one at the top of the list is Wild Horses and id of given it straight to the stones

[80sChav]

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- Night Shift by Lionel Richie and The Communards

- In Private/Nothing Has Been Proved by The Pet shop boys that Dusty Springfield did

- Angels by Robbie Williams

- Wonderwall/Don't Look Back In Anger - by Oasis

A more recent one upon re-investigating the Pet Shop Boys' songs they did with Robbie Williams - who i rate totaly equaly as one of the very best Groups and Solo Artists - I never knew the wrote She's Maddona - imagine that .... a tribute to Maddona wrote by The Pet shop boys and Roibbie singing it. These 3 are just some of the cream el-acarte and your talking here the 2 very best Solo Artists (Male and Female) ever in Robbie and Madge - what a song to write 9and more so that The pet Shop's with their own distinctive voices wrote it too)

80sChav

[beccabear67]

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Jeff Lynne has written a lot of great music from the '60s to the 2000s, amazing talent! I guess if I could have written 'Happy Birthday To You' I might be quite wealthy, but I'd have needed a time machine as well. I'd settle for writing something up there with the Sooty or Wombles themes, or I know... Rainbow... I really liked that theme of theirs! I wonder how much the composer of the Coronation Street trumpet piece gets (or their heirs)?

Actually I am a published songwriter, three with my BF (my words, his music), and one on my own with a little help from him (words and music by me), and apparently that made the top ten in Chile and Peru briefly. I think I've made $50 max, but the stuff is registered with ASCAP. Anyone want to cover our tunes?

[George 1978]

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Jeff Lynnes' masterpiece 'Eldorado' very underrated album.

Nothing to do with that ill-fated soap opera, methinks?

[George 1978]

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Probably that post-Popmaster masterpiece - Macarthur Park by Richard Harris. Who really did leave the cake out in the rain?

[AndrewP]

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For me it has to be Let it Be - so beautiful

[Pussywillow]

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ELO's 'Mr Blue Sky'. A perennial.

Jeff Lynnes' masterpiece 'Eldorado' very underrated album.

[amethyst]

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I suppose one could ask, which songwriter would you have rather wanted to be like?

Christine Mcvie singer pianist with Fleetwood Mac,would have loved to be able to sing and play like her

[George 1978]

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I suppose one could ask, which songwriter would you have rather wanted to be like?

[amethyst]

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Strange Weather-Glenn Frey still can't believe you passed away 4 years on 18th January

[Paddles]

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Unable to edit - but it struck me is that pop and rock music at about this time was producing very complex musical tracks, after the 1950's and early 60's had been fairly simple songs that accentuated a beautiful voice or a catchy tune, soungs were now far more about original compositions, and borrowing from different styles.

Dusty Springfield's son of a preacher man 1969.

Janis Joplin 1967 Piece of my Heart, Bobby McGee 1968, Mercedez Benz 1969.

And just I think Stevie Winwood sums up perfectly what was happening to global music at the time with "Give me Some Loving".

[Paddles]

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Indeed - me too. I really really love this song, it is one of my all time fave's!

Its good, but I always think "All I need is a miracle" is their standout song.

This is 1967. Written 2 years earlier by a 17 year old Steve Winwood and his English pals who feel the gospel organ and the soul of Motor City.

Stones would hit back with Sympathy of the Devil in 1968 and Gimme Shelter in 1969. The Who released Baba Oreilly in 1971. Steepenwulf's Magic Carpet and Born to be Wild ride was in 1968. Suddenly all styles of music and instruments were up for grabs. All voices. Nothing was off limits. CCR released their first album in 1968. Dusty Springfield had released for what its worth in 1966.

The Shondells would release Crimson and Clover in 1968.