The Music Memoirs: a Friday Meme
Top 5 On Friday - Week 1 (Their up to 105.)
This week's topic may read a bit tricky so if you have a question, shoot me a question over on yon tagboard. M'kay?
Top 5 songs that weren't written by the artist that recorded them. (But not cover songs)
I'll give you an example
The Monkees - A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You (written by Neil Diamond)
The Monkees - I'm A Believer (written by Neil Diamond for the Monkees then later covered by him.)
Richard Harris - Macarthur Park (written by Jimmy Webb.)
Elvis Presley - In The Ghetto (written for him by Mac Davis, and probably one of the only "Elvis songs" that I prefer to other interpretations. eg. Carl Perkins' Blue Suede Shoes is superior to the Elvis cover.)
Pretty much anything written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach could be on this list as performed by Dionne Warwick; let's go with "Walk On By."
I think in Babes at Arms in the 1930's Mitzi Green first sang - My Funny Valentine (written by Rodgers and Hart.) Which just opens up the can of worms associated with Col Porter, Irving Berlin etc.
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