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12 Of The Highest Earning Songs Of All Time | TheRichest
Stand by Me is one of them, Candles in The Wind, Every Breath You Take and others
The Greatest Lyricists In The World Today | NME
Jarvis Cocker is one of the greatest lyricists in the world today
Follow me to further complications, that's right
Further complications in store, yeah
Your life is just a carrier bag
Overfill it and the straps will snap
I used to think that people all chose the lives they led
But so many different choices that you've got to make instead
Don't write a novel, a shopping list is better
It's a complicated boogie and I don't know any better, baby
Further complications, oh
Further complications in store, yeah
But back in the days, there was of course Irving Berlin. How deep is The Ocean , Ella Fitzgerald
But there was also Mack Gordon
Also one of the most successful . How do I know? I came across his song this morning as I was looking for music written by James Bond
. Mack Gordon and similar musical artists | Frankensaurus.com
American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film.
And by that I mean not to subtract anything to Irving Berlin. After all, ''he is American music'' and had interesting views on the 6 tunes that exist in the world
Irving Berlin, Nation's Songwriter, Dies - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
He often said there are only six tunes in the world. But from those six tunes he fashioned, according to his catalogue, 1,500 songs - and nobody knows how many more he may have stored somewhere. When someone admired one of his melodies, Mr. Berlin was quick to say: ''I like it, too. I've used it lots of times.'' A Classic Story
Not only did he compose the melodies; he also wrote the lyrics. And businessman that he was, he established the Irving Berlin Music Corporation in 1919 to publish his works and retain control over all the copyrights, which he guarded fiercely. His was a classic rags-to-riches story that he never forgot could have happened only in America.
His ''Blue Skies'' reached the top of the pop charts when it was written in 1927 - no surprise for an established songwriter. What is unusual is that the song was adopted some 50 years later by the popular country singer Willie Nelson and reached the charts again as part of an album released in 1978.
According to Ascap records, 25 Berlin songs reached the top of the charts. His songs, with their timeless quality, were picked up again and again by top recording artists like Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Linda Ronstadt, Rosemary Clooney and Diana Ross and became hits all over again. ''White Christmas'' remains one of the most-performed standards in the entire Ascap repertory. A Granter of Holidays
The songwriter Sammy Cahn once said of Mr. Berlin's prodigious output: ''If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something. Irving Berlin can sing 60 that are immediately identifiable. Somebody once said you couldn't have a holiday without his permission.''
''White Christmas'' and ''Easter Parade'' were two Berlin songs that became holiday anthems. When he noticed that he might have slighted Thanksgiving, the Fourth of July, St. Patrick's Day, New Year's Eve and Washington's Birthday he added ''Something to Be Thankful For,'' ''Say It With Firecrackers,'' ''A Little Bit of Irish,'' ''Let's Start the New Year Right'' and ''I Can't Tell a Lie.'' And in case he had missed anything, he composed ''Happy Holiday.''
''Irving Berlin has no place in American music,'' Jerome Kern once said. ''He is American music. Emotionally, he honestly absorbs the vibrations emanating from the people, manners and life of his time and, in turn, gives these impressions back to the world -simplified, clarified and glorified.''
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Christina Aguilera, sings "At Last" in every concert as a tribute to Etta James, her musical inspiration. But "At Last" is a song also written by Mack Gordon, and with Harry Warren, for the musical film Sun Valley Serenade, in 1941.
Etta James' Funeral: Stevie Wonder, Christina Aguilera Sing (archive.org)
But who sings At Last the best? Etta liked Christina's version better than the other great artists' who also did it. And they were good friends