Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 14:11:35 -0400
From: Salvatore Compoccia <compoccia@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Rolling Stone 100-greatest-songwriters
Given that's a Rolling Stone poll, I'm guess the Bee Gees lack of "rock credentials" has resulted in RS consistently marginalizing or ignoring them. This is pretty much par for the course, I would say.
Sal
Salvatore Compoccia
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From: Joseph Brennan <brennan@columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: Rolling Stone 100-greatest-songwriters
Anne Simpson wrote:
> But Taylor Swift didn’t beat the Bee Gees – they just beat her
> by two positions near the bottom of the list. Whoop de doo.
Hey, what's wrong with Taylor Swift?
Surprisingly we don't see Stephen Foster or Irving Berlin there, and it's
greatest songwriters "of All Time", right? What are they, chopped liver?
Foster, 1826-1864, the first professional songwriter, is especially notable
because people are still singing and recording some of his sings more than
150 years later. Oh! Susannah, Camptown Races, Old Folks at Home (Swanee
River), My Old Kentucky Home, Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, Hard Times
Come Again No More, Beautiful Dreamer.
Joe Brennan
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