spemanig said:
Respect - Otis Retting. Not Aretha Franklin. In the Ghetto - Mac Davis. Not Elvis. Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson. Not Marvin Gaye or Tammi Terrell Take the 'A' Train - Billy Strayhorn. Not Ella Fitzgerald. With all due respect, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about when it comes to music. The most important songs? To who? 80s/90s kids? Outside of genres like pop, rock, and country, and their branches of more niche connected genres and sub genres like metal or punk, almost no one successful writes and sings their own songs. Especially not "the most important" songs. What you really want to say is "my favorite songs," likely from a select group of your favorite pop/rock singers/bands you hold nostalgia for. I don't know what your scale for "important songs" is, but it is clearly incredebly inaccurate. |
Nice list Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Aretha Franklin never wrote any of their own songs. Marvin Gaye eventually wrote his own songs but still had co writers on some of his songs. Even with singers that write their own songs there are very few that only cover the songs that they wrote themselves.
