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Eric Bellinger Says Beyoncé Paved The Way For Artists To Get SongWriting Credits On Songs They Didn’t Write
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NoirDynosaur
Yurrrrrrrrrr
You're right
The practice dates back as far as the 5th century B.C., when scribes wrote material for royalty. And world leaders throughout history have relied on ghostwriters to present an amenable front to their constituents.
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The Supremes
The Supremes left their lyrics in the hands of Motown writers like Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland (a.k.a. Holland-Dozier-Holland). This trio penned hits like the 1965 single "Stop! In the Name of Love", and 1964’s "Baby Love" and "Where Did Our Love Go?," all of which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. "Where Did Our Love Go?" was originally for The Marvelettes, "who refused to do it," Dozier said in a 2003 interview. Though The Supremes "felt like they were getting leftovers" they yielded a hit. After being deemed the first group to earn three Billboard No. 1 singles from one album, the song didn't look so unappetizing after all.
Frank Sinatra
While Frank Sinatra provided timelessly gliding vocals, he had songwriters like Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder and Bart Howard to tackle his lyrics. Singleton and Snyder's 1966 "Strangers in the Night" peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart while Howard's 1964 "Fly Me to the Moon" hit No.14. Howard stuck to his guns and ignored one publisher's advice to change the lyrics to "take me to the moon". "Had I done that," he told The New York Times in 1988, "I don't know where I'd be today."
Elvis Presley
Presley took care of the hip-gyrating and smooth vocals while songwriters like Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller covered the swoon-inducing lyrics of tracks like 1968 single "Jailhouse Rock" and 1969’s "Hound Dog." “I didn’t like the way he did it,” Leiber admitted about Presley's "Hound Dog" rendition (which was originally written for blues singer Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thorton) in the autobiography Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Collection. “The song isn’t about a dog, it’s about a man, a freeloading gigolo." Stoller was of the same sentiment, but "after [the song] sold seven or eight million copies it began to sound better," he joked.
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The earliest examples of musicians hiring ghostwriters to make hit songs
OperationNumbNutts
Superstar
That statement is a cluster fyck of stupid.
it didnt
Makavalli
Sinister is a system
Oooh ok thanks for explaining i was confused. I get it from beyonce’s business side. She want a cut of the residuals for when she too old to be out here like these legacy artists doing them WBLS throwback concerts for a check
You're right
The practice dates back as far as the 5th century B.C., when scribes wrote material for royalty. And world leaders throughout history have relied on ghostwriters to present an amenable front to their constituents.
POP MUSIC WISE
The Supremes
The Supremes left their lyrics in the hands of Motown writers like Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland (a.k.a. Holland-Dozier-Holland). This trio penned hits like the 1965 single "Stop! In the Name of Love", and 1964’s "Baby Love" and "Where Did Our Love Go?," all of which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. "Where Did Our Love Go?" was originally for The Marvelettes, "who refused to do it," Dozier said in a 2003 interview. Though The Supremes "felt like they were getting leftovers" they yielded a hit. After being deemed the first group to earn three Billboard No. 1 singles from one album, the song didn't look so unappetizing after all.
Frank Sinatra
While Frank Sinatra provided timelessly gliding vocals, he had songwriters like Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder and Bart Howard to tackle his lyrics. Singleton and Snyder's 1966 "Strangers in the Night" peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart while Howard's 1964 "Fly Me to the Moon" hit No.14. Howard stuck to his guns and ignored one publisher's advice to change the lyrics to "take me to the moon". "Had I done that," he told The New York Times in 1988, "I don't know where I'd be today."
Elvis Presley
Presley took care of the hip-gyrating and smooth vocals while songwriters like Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller covered the swoon-inducing lyrics of tracks like 1968 single "Jailhouse Rock" and 1969’s "Hound Dog." “I didn’t like the way he did it,” Leiber admitted about Presley's "Hound Dog" rendition (which was originally written for blues singer Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thorton) in the autobiography Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Collection. “The song isn’t about a dog, it’s about a man, a freeloading gigolo." Stoller was of the same sentiment, but "after [the song] sold seven or eight million copies it began to sound better," he joked.
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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 across the...
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The earliest examples of musicians hiring ghostwriters to make hit songs
This issue is not about ghost writing
Does that really matter? it's an exploitative act that she engages in.
Richard Glidewell
Superstar
See how you singled her out and added some vitriol to it instead of attributing it to a standard business practice........there's your answer
on page on 1 I said the below, so you tell me how you want to proceed?
Diddy did this back in the 90's.
Richard Glidewell
Superstar
Okay........ that's what you said. Point being is he shouldn't have made her the focus of the practiceduring that interview which is what I said......
Goes back further than that. White Jewish record executives were getting credit for songs they had no hand in writing. David Chase touched on it in the Sopranos (1:30 mark):
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I don't remember anyone ever calling Beyonce a Singer-Songwriter
