There are two alternatives to this list, located at Talk:List of songwriters/temp and Talk:List of songwriters/temp2. Some refactoring would be good.
This list of songwriters includes names of those who have written the lyrics or music, or both, for successful songs. It is not limited to popular music.
Songwriters who perform their own work -- a relatively recent phenomenon -- are usually called singer-songwriters. (See List of singer-songwriters.) This list only includes those who remain in the background and rarely, if ever, perform(ed) their own songs in public.
- Joe Allison
- Duane Allman of The Allman Brothers
- Tori Amos
- Trey Anastasio of Phish
- Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day
- John Austin
- Afrika Bambaataa
- Burt Bacharach, songwriter for Dionne Warwick among others
- Bert Berns
- Irving Berlin
- Leonard Bernstein
- MissyFoxx [3]
- Clint Black
- Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple and Rainbow
- Shelton Brooks
- Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
- Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac
- Hoagy Carmichael
- Kim Carnes
- Johnny Cash
- Tracy Chapman
- Kurt Cobain of Nirvana
- Hank Cochran
- Bootsy Collins of Parliament, Funkadelic and Bootsy's Rubber Band
- Jim Croce
- Dick Dale
- Glenn Danzig of Samhain, Danzig and The Misfits
- Hal David
- Mac Davis
- Kim Deal of the Pixies and The Breeders
- Claude Demetrius
- John Denver
- Ani DiFranco
- Jimmy Driftwood
- Bob Dylan
- Steve Earle
- Danielle Egnew of Pope Jane
- Don Gant
- George Gershwin
- Ira Gershwin
- Amy Grant
- Dave Grohl of Nirvana and The Foo Fighters
- Merle Haggard
- Oscar Hammerstein II
- Ben Harper
- Lorenz Hart
- Eddie Hazel of Parliament and Funkadelic
- Richard Hell
- Gil-Scott Heron
- Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon
- Harlan Howard
- Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders
- Waylon Jennings
- William Jerome
- Tim Jones
- Gordon Kennedy , writer for Eric Clapton, others
- Jerome Kern
- Antony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Merle Kilgore
- Wayne Kirkpatrick, writer for Eric Clapton, Michael W. Smith, Amy Grant, others
- Tom Lehrer
- Alan Jay Lerner
- Dennis Linde
- Frank Loesser
- Frederick Loewe
- John D. Loudermilk
- Courtney Love of Hole
- Phil Madeira, writer for Julie Miller, Ashley Cleveland , Wynonna Judd and others
- Ian Mackaye
- Dave Matthews
- Rod McKuen
- Henry Mancini
- Johnny Mercer
- Jim Morrison of The Doors
- Fred Neil
- Mos Def
- Nas
- Willie Nelson
- Mickey Newbury
- Bradley Nowell of Sublime
- Cole Porter
- Rattlesnake Annie
- Eddy Raven
- Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails
- Richard Rodgers
- Tupper Saussy
- Jean Schwartz
- Troy Seals
- John Sebastian
- Neil Sedaka
- Tupac Shakur
- Mort Shuman
- Tommy Simms , writer for Eric Clapton, others
- Paul Simon of Simon & Garfunkel and a solo career
- Carly Simon
- Stephen Sondheim
- Chip Taylor
- James Taylor
- Terry Scott Taylor, writer for Daniel Amos, The Lost Dogs and The Swirling Eddies
- Johnny Tillotson
- Albert Von Tilzer
- Harry Von Tilzer
- Cindy Walker
Songwriting teams
Some songwriting teams are listed below:
See also
Last updated: 10-25-2005 11:23:58
