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This is a list of notable
songwriter teams.
Collaborators
|
Period
|
Songs
|
Benny Andersson and
Björn Ulvaeus
[1] of
ABBA and post-ABBA
|
1966
[2]–present
|
"
Waterloo" "
SOS" "
Mamma Mia" "
Fernando" "
Dancing Queen"
|
Ashford & Simpson
[3]
|
1964–2011
|
"
Ain't No Mountain High Enough" "
You're All I Need to Get By" "
Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" "
Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)"
|
Burt Bacharach (music) and
Hal David (lyrics)
[3]
|
1957–1973
|
"
Alfie" "
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" "
This Guy's in Love with You" "
(They Long to Be) Close to You" "
Walk On By" "
The Look of Love" "
One Less Bell to Answer" "
Do You Know the Way to San Jose"
|
Randy Bachman and
Burton Cummings
[4]
[5] of
The Guess Who
|
|
"
These Eyes" "
No Time" "
American Woman" (with
Garry Peterson and
Jim Kale) "
No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature"
|
Jeff Barry and
Ellie Greenwich
[6]
|
1962–late 1960s
|
"
Da Doo Ron Ron" (with
Phil Spector) "
Be My Baby" (with Spector) "
Leader of the Pack" (with
Shadow Morton) "
Do Wah Diddy Diddy" "
Chapel of Love" (with Spector) "
River Deep, Mountain High" (with Spector)
|
Walter Becker and
Donald Fagen
[7] of
Steely Dan
|
1971–2017
|
"
Do It Again" "
Rikki Don't Lose That Number" "
Reelin' In the Years" "
Peg" "
Hey Nineteen"
|
Barry,
Robin and
Maurice Gibb, the
Bee Gees (and also for other artists)
[8]
|
|
"
Massachusetts" "
I've Gotta Get a Message to You" "
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" "
Jive Talkin'" "
How Deep Is Your Love" "
Night Fever" "
Stayin' Alive" "
Too Much Heaven" "
Tragedy" "
Islands in the Stream"
|
Alan and Marilyn Bergman
[9]
[10]
|
1956–2022
|
"
The Windmills of Your Mind" (with
Michel Legrand) "
The Way We Were" (with
Marvin Hamlisch) "
It Might Be You" (with
Dave Grusin) "
In the Heat of the Night" (with
Quincy Jones) "
All His Children" (with
Henry Mancini)
|
Boyce and Hart
[11]
|
|
"
Come a Little Bit Closer" (with
Wes Farrell) "
(Theme From) The Monkees" "
Last Train to Clarksville" "
I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight"
|
Andrew Farriss and
Michael Hutchence of
INXS
|
1977–1997
|
"
Original Sin" "
What You Need" "
Need You Tonight" "
New Sensation" "
Never Tear Us Apart"
|
Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
[12]
|
|
"
Bye Bye Love" "
Wake Up, Little Susie" "
Rocky Top"
|
Gamble and Huff
[13]
|
early 1960s–?
|
"
If You Don't Know Me by Now" "
Love Train" "
Me and Mrs. Jones" (with
Cary Gilbert) "
TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)"
|
David Gilmour and
Roger Waters of
Pink Floyd
[14]
|
1968–1979
|
"
Comfortably Numb" "
Wish You Were Here" "
Run Like Hell" "
Dogs"
|
Gerry Goffin and
Carole King
[3]
|
|
"
Will You Love Me Tomorrow" "
The Loco-Motion" "
One Fine Day" "
Up on the Roof" "
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman"
|
Isaac Hayes and
David Porter
[15]
[16]
|
|
"
Hold On, I'm Comin'" "
When Something Is Wrong with My Baby" "
Soul Man" "
I Thank You"
|
James Hetfield and
Lars Ulrich of
Metallica
|
1981–present
|
"
Seek & Destroy" "
For Whom the Bell Tolls" (with
Cliff Burton) "
Master of Puppets" (with
Cliff Burton and
Kirk Hammett) "
One" "
Enter Sandman" (with
Kirk Hammett) "
Sad but True" "
Nothing Else Matters" "
Until It Sleeps" "
Hero of the Day" "
The Memory Remains" "
Some Kind of Monster" (with
Kirk Hammett and
Bob Rock) "
The Day That Never Comes" (with
Kirk Hammett and
Robert Trujillo)
|
Holland–Dozier–Holland
[17]
-
Lamont Dozier and
Brian Holland (music)
-
Eddie Holland (lyrics)
|
1960s–1970s
|
"
(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave" "
Can I Get a Witness" "
Where Did Our Love Go" "
Baby Love" "
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" "
Stop! In the Name of Love" "
I Hear a Symphony" "
You Can't Hurry Love"
|
James Horner (music) and
Will Jennings (lyrics)
|
1988–2001
|
"
If We Hold on Together" "
Dreams to Dream" "
My Heart Will Go On" "
Where Are You, Christmas?" (with
Mariah Carey)
|
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
[3]
[18] of
The Rolling Stones
-
Mick Jagger
-
Keith Richards
|
|
"
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" "
Paint It, Black" "
Honky Tonk Women"
|
Elton John (music) and
Bernie Taupin (lyrics)
[3]
|
|
"
Crocodile Rock" "
Daniel" "
Bennie and the Jets" "
Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" "
Don't Go Breaking My Heart" "
Something About the Way You Look Tonight"/"
Candle in the Wind 1997"
|
Kalmar and Ruby
[19]
-
Bert Kalmar (lyrics)
-
Harry Ruby (music)
|
1920–1947
|
"
Who's Sorry Now?" "
I Wanna Be Loved by You" "
Three Little Words"
|
Lennon–McCartney
[3]
[20] of
The Beatles
-
John Lennon
-
Paul McCartney
|
1957–1969
|
|
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
[3]
[21]
- Jerry Leiber (lyrics)
- Mike Stoller (music)
|
1950–?
|
"
Hound Dog" "
Jailhouse Rock" "
Kansas City" "
Stand By Me" (with
Ben E. King) "
On Broadway" (with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil)
|
Livingston & Evans
[22]
[23]
-
Jay Livingston (music)
-
Ray Evans (lyrics)
|
|
"
Silver Bells" "
Buttons and Bows" "
Mona Lisa" "
Que Sera, Sera" "
Tammy"
|
Barry Mann (music) and
Cynthia Weil (lyrics)
[24]
[25]
|
1960–?
|
"
On Broadway" (with Leiber and Stoller) "
We Gotta Get Out of This Place" "
(You're My) Soul and Inspiration" "
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" "
Somewhere Out There" (with
James Horner)
|
Morrissey (lyrics) and
Johnny Marr (music)
[26] of
The Smiths
|
1983–1987
|
"
How Soon Is Now?" "
This Charming Man" "
Bigmouth Strikes Again" "
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out"
|
Doc Pomus and
Mort Shuman
[27]
|
|
"
Save the Last Dance for Me" "
This Magic Moment" "
A Teenager in Love" "
Suspicion" "
Viva Las Vegas"
|
Nile Rodgers and
Bernard Edwards
[28] of
Chic
|
early 1970s–1983
|
"
Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" (with Kenny Lehman) "
Le Freak" "
Good Times" "
We Are Family"
|
Rick Davies and
Roger Hodgson of
Supertramp
[29]
|
1970–1983
|
"
Babaji" "
Bloody Well Right" "
Breakfast in America" "
Dreamer" "
Give a Little Bit" "
Goodbye Stranger" "
It's Raining Again" "
My Kind of Lady" "
Take the Long Way Home" "
The Logical Song"
|
Sherman Brothers
[30]
[31]
-
Robert B. Sherman
-
Richard M. Sherman
|
|
"
It's a Small World (After All)" "
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" "
Chim Chim Cher-ee" "
A Spoonful of Sugar" "
Feed the Birds" "
Let's Go Fly a Kite" "
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" "
I Wanna Be Like You" (from
The Jungle Book) "
The Aristocats" "
You're Sixteen"
|
Stock Aitken Waterman
[32]
-
Mike Stock
-
Matt Aitken
-
Pete Waterman
|
1984–1991
|
"
Respectable" (Mel and Kim) "
Never Gonna Give You Up" "
I Should Be So Lucky" "
Together Forever" "
Especially for You" "
This Time I Know It's for Real" (with
Donna Summer) "
Too Many Broken Hearts" "
Hand on Your Heart" "
You'll Never Stop Me Loving You"
|
Barrett Strong and
Norman Whitfield
[33]
[34]
|
|
"
I Heard It Through the Grapevine" "
War" "
Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" "
Smiling Faces Sometimes" "
Papa Was a Rollin' Stone"
|
Barry Hay and
George Kooymans of
Golden Earring
|
1967–2021
|
"
Radar Love" "
When the Lady Smiles"
|
Joe Strummer and
Mick Jones
[35]
[36] of
The Clash
|
|
"
London Calling" "
Rock the Casbah"
|
Neil Tennant and
Chris Lowe
[37]
[38]
[39] of
Pet Shop Boys
|
1981–present
|
"
West End Girls" "
It's a Sin" "
What Have I Done to Deserve This?" (with
Allee Willis)
|
Sid Tepper and
Roy C. Bennett
|
1948–1970
|
"
Red Roses for a Blue Lady" "
Suzy Snowflake" "
The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane" "
Twenty Tiny Fingers" "
Nuttin' for Christmas" "
Kewpie Doll" "
Travellin' Light" "
G.I. Blues" "
The Young Ones" "
Puppet on a String"
|
John Wetton and
Geoff Downes of
Asia
|
1981–2017
|
"
Heat of the Moment" "
Only Time Will Tell" "
Don't Cry" "
Go"
|
Martin Gore (lyrics) and
Alan Wilder (music) of
Depeche Mode
|
1982–1995
|
"
Enjoy the Silence" "
Shake the Disease" "
Personal Jesus" "
People Are People"
|
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"ABBA Songwriters Get Lifetime Award".
Associated Press. May 24, 2002.
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The Story of ABBA
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"From Leiber and Stoller to Lennon and McCartney: the alchemy of the duo".
The Guardian.
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^
"Bachman, Cummings named into Canadian Songwriters Hall".
The Globe and Mail. December 7, 2004.
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^
"The Guess Who is Taking Care of Unfinished Business.(What's Happening)".
Seattle Post-Intelligencer. November 2, 2001. Archived from
the original on April 11, 2013.
The core of the Canadian band has always been Winnipeg natives Cummings (vocals/piano) and Randy Bachman (vocals/guitars), a prolific songwriting duo. In the late '60s and early 1970, the duo produced a string of hits ...
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^ Thomas Conner (July 3, 2005).
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Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from
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^ Stephen Holden (January 18, 1981).
"Steely Dan's New Songs".
The New York Times.
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^
"Robin Gibb: the hits you didn't know were written by the Bee Gees".
The Daily Telegraph. May 21, 2012.
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^
"The Couple Behind Some Of Hollywood's Classic Tunes".
NPR. September 2, 2011. Retrieved February 3, 2013.
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^
"1997 Award & Induction Ceremony: Johnny Mercer Award: Alan & Marilyn Bergman".
Songwriters Hall of Fame. Archived from
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^
"Tommy Boyce, Musician, Songwriter for Monkees".
Chicago Sun-Times. November 25, 1994. Archived from
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^
"Full List of Inductees". Country Music Hall of Fame. Archived from
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^
"Gamble & Huff earn prestigious award: Songwriting team to be recognized at Grammy's banquet".
Philadelphia Tribune. February 19, 1999. Archived from
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^ Hiatt, Brian (October 13, 2011).
"Pink Floyd: Journey to the Dark Side".
Rolling Stone. Retrieved September 7, 2013.
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^
"Isaac Hayes".
Songwriters Hall of Fame. Archived from
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^
"David Porter".
Stax Museum of American Soul Music. Archived from
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^ John Jurgensen (November 10, 2007).
"Hit List: Holland-Dozier-Holland".
The Wall Street Journal.
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^
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MSN. December 7, 2010. Archived from
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Archived 2009-02-13 at the
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Archived 2013-12-27 at the
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^
"RIP Jerry Leiber: half of one of rock's greatest songwriting teams".
Los Angeles Times. August 22, 2011.
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^ Dennis McLellan (October 18, 2001).
"Hollywood Star Walk: Livingston & Evans".
Los Angeles Times.
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^ Dennis McLellan (February 18, 2007).
"Ray Evans, 92; won 3 Oscars as part of songwriting team".
The Boston Globe. Archived from
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^
"Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil".
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
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^
"Interview: Songwriters Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil discuss their careers as a songwriting team and a married couple for 40 years".
Fresh Air. National Public Radio. July 18, 2000. Archived from
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