It may be worth remembering that Jimmy Van Heusen's 40 year career as a song writer extended into the 50s and 60s. With lyricist Johnny Burke he wrote Here's That Rainy Day in 1953 (prior to that, Polka Dots and Moonbeams, But Beautiful, Imagination, Swinging on a Star, and with Eddie De Lange, Darn That Dream). He went on to write with Sammy Cahn such memorable tunes as Love and Marriage, Call Me Irresponsible, All the Way, The Second Time Around and Only the Lonely.
Antonio Carlos Jobim did some of his best work with lyracist Vinicius De Moraes: The Girl From Ipanema, Favela, Insensatez, One Note Samba, O Grande Amor, Chega De Saudade (No More Blues), Once I Loved, Agua De Beber.
Last but not least, there was the collaboration of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim on West Side Story in 1957. |
True Tweakgeek, but together they were great. Apart... well... Paul has been good, but I think he lost something when they broke up. Call me strange, but I own none of Paul Simon's albums (even Graceland which I know is pretty good). I own ever studio album that Simon & Garfunkle put out. Sometimes it takes a team to be successful, and I think the two (had they stayed together) would have been much more successful than either did on their own.
KF |
Tok20000,
Simon and Garfunkel were, as you are no doubt aware, more than good. However, it was Paul Simon who got the songwriting credit. |
Bono and the edge
Ian Brown and John Squire |
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Audiotomb mentioned Squeeze...Songwriters with Squeeze were Glen Tilbrook and Chris Difford. I think they are a great band, but not sure they belong in the company of some of the others mentioned..... |
Simon and Garfunkle were pretty good.
I think they should be on any top 10 list.
KF |
I would add Grateful Dead/Robert Hunter collaborations. |
If nothing else, I realized a long time ago that one person's crap = another person's fertilizer, when it comes to music (and politics). There is, of course, a definite "flip side" to that record, too. |
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Yeah, Taupin/Elton JOhn, I concure with "Fatparrot"
"Wayne and garth"!!!...too funny |
At no particular order but with no place for crap i list:
Laurie Anderson/Lou Reed
Robert Fripp/Adrean Belew
Jon Anderson/Rick Wackeman
Bryan Ferry/Phil Manzanera
Phil Manzanera/Brian Eno
Brian Eno/David Byrne
Sting/Andy Summers
David Sylvian/Robert Fripp
David Sylvian/Ryichi Sakamoto
Ryichi Sakamoto/Arto Lindsay
After this list I can add Gilmour/Waters. |
Do David Gilmour/Roger Waters count, or did they more or less write separately for the larger Pink Floyd whole (in the wall)? |
Damn, Rodgers and Hart miss out by just a few years.
Paul Simon/Art Garfunkel
Don Henely/Glen Frey
Lamont Dozier/Brian Holland/Edward Holland
Richard Rogers/Oscar Hammerstein
Nickolas Ashford/Valerie Simpson
Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil
Kix Brooks/Ronnie Dunn
BTW, Mes, the schwing vote goes to Garth for bagging Kim Basinger. |
Richard and Linda Thompson
Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy
Wayne and Garth |
Howard Ashman & Alan Menken |
Becker/Fagen
the Squeeze boys Tilbrook and ?
Elvis Costello and his alter ego |
Elton John/Bernie Taupin especially "Madman Across The Water", "Tumbleweed Connection", "Honkey Chateau", and "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road". After that period, they took a nose-dive, in my opinion! B.T.W., the Mofi Gold CD version of "Madman" SUCKS as far as audio quality (notoriously piss poor fidelty on some Mofi CD's...and this one is VERY pricy at $70 to $100!) I was fortunate enough to find a SEALED DCC vinyl copy, and I could not believe the difference in audio quality! This is not a vinyl vs. digital issue, Mofi just had someone do a NASTY mastering job on this title, which is also the best release in the E.J. catalog, in my opinion, as well. |
To add two or three:
Dan Penn (Pennington) and Spooner Oldham
Charles Hardin Holley (Buddy Holly) and Norman Petty (though it is unclear how much credit Petty actually deserved)
Lately, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings are amazing. |
