In 1990, Andersson scored a Swedish # 1 hit with " Lassie ", sung by female cabaret group Ainbusk, for whom he also wrote the Svensktoppen hits " Älska Mig " and " Drömmarnas Golv ".

At the same time the non-album single " John, I ’ m Only Dancing ", and " All the Young Dudes ", a song he wrote and produced for Mott the Hoople, became UK hits.

In addition to being an upright bassist, he wrote dozens of R & B hits and worked as a producer.

The song was written by Lee Hazlewood, who wrote and produced most of her hits and sang with her on several duets, including the critical and cult favorite " Some Velvet Morning ".

Influenced by contemporaneous hits such as " Come Back to Me ( My Love )" and " Come Softly to Me ", Orbison and Melson wrote a song in early 1960 which, using elements from " Uptown " employed strings and the Anita Kerr doo-wop backup singers.

Dolenz wrote a few of the band ’ s songs as well as providing the lead vocals for such hits as " Last Train to Clarksville ", " Take a Giant Step " and " I'm a Believer ".

His performance as King Lear was lambasted by critics, including Kenneth Tynan, who wrote that Laughton's Nick Bottom "... behaves in a manner that has nothing to do with acting, although it perfectly hits off the demeanor of a rapscallion uncle dressed up to entertain the children at a Christmas party ".

Curtis Mayfield not only scored many hits with his group, The Impressions, but wrote many hit songs for Chicago artists and produced hits on his own labels for The Fascinations and the Five Stairsteps.

In 1938, composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E. Y. Harburg ( composers of " Over the Rainbow " and many other hits ) wrote the song " God's Country ", for the finale of the MGM musical Babes in Arms, starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney.

" In a review of the band's 2003 greatest hits collection Thank You, Allmusic critic Stephen Erlewine wrote that " STP made music that sounded great at the time and even better now ," and that " this music has stood the test of the time ," calling Thank You " nearly perfect.

After signing with Capitol Records in mid-1962, Wilson wrote or co-wrote more than two dozen Top 40 hits including " Surfin ' Safari ", " Surfin ' USA ", " Shut Down ", " Little Deuce Coupe ", " Be True to Your School ", " In My Room ", " Fun, Fun, Fun ", " I Get Around ", " Dance Dance Dance ", " Help Me Rhonda ", " California Girls " and " Good Vibrations ".

With Steve Winwood, Jennings wrote a series albums including While You See A Chance, Arc of a Diver and Back in the High Life, an album which contained the hits " Higher Love ", " The Finer Things ", and " Back in the High Life Again ".

In Nashville, Jennings wrote hits with Rodney Crowell, including " Many a Long and Lonesome Highway ", " What Kind of Love ", and " Please Remember Me ", a number one country hit for Tim McGraw.

Silverstein also wrote one of Johnny Cash's best known whimsical hits, " A Boy Named Sue.

From his movie work, he wrote and recorded one of his greatest hits, " Lonely Boy " and also " My Home Town ", which was a # 8 pop hit for him the same year.

The plans for the CD have changed a bit, because of the loss of a family member she wrote some ballads she will record for the cd as well as new live versions of her hits.

With the group, Finn wrote the hits " One Step Ahead ", " History Never Repeats ", " I Got You " and " Message to My Girl ", among others.

* J. J. Cale, musician who wrote hits such as " Call Me The Breeze ", " Cocaine " and " After Midnight ".

Lyrics, were written by Harold Adamson ( nominated 5 times for an Oscar )-nephew Bruce Adamson noted, that " Harold wrote several hundred songs for the film industry such hits as Wyatt Earp ; Time on My Hands ; Coming in on A Wing and a Prayer ; Around the World in 80 Days, An Affair to Remember, Sinatra's first Oscar nomination " I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night ," Jean Harlow's last song, Did I Remember ; naming a few " and the lyrics to ' I Love Lucy ' was sung by Desi Arnaz, written for the episode by Harold Adamson " Lucy's Last Birthday ":

In 1981, Smith was signed as a writer to Meadowgreen Music, where he wrote a number of gospel hits penned for artists such as Sandi Patty, Kathy Troccoli, Bill Gaither and Amy Grant, to the effect that some of these popular worship songs can now be found in church hymnals.

Among the hits he wrote were " Your Cheatin ' Heart ," " Hey, Good Lookin '," and " I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.

The songs he wrote and recorded have been covered by numerous artists, many of whom have also had hits with the tunes, in a range of pop, gospel, blues and rock styles.

In 1972, Nelson reached the Top 40 one last time with " Garden Party ", a song he wrote in disgust after a Madison Square Garden audience booed him, because, in his mind, he was playing new songs instead of just his old hits.

Starting her career in 1954, she gained fame with hits such as " Roll With Me, Henry ", " At Last ", " Tell Mama ", " Something's Got a Hold on Me ", and " I'd Rather Go Blind " for which she wrote the lyrics.

I don't even remember who wrote it but it was one of those 15th or 16th century poets.

Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.

Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The Waist-High Culture, wrote: `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep South ) I found myself unsympathetic to.

Later Helion wrote of this phase: `` For years I built for myself a subtle instrument of relationships -- colors and forms without a name.

She wrote in her journal, `` I have not heard the least profane language since I have been on board the vessel.

Consequently, on October 31, 1896, Mrs. King wrote to Thompson, quite against her daughter's wishes, asking him not to `` recommence a correspondence which I believe has been dropped for some weeks ''.

O my genius, young and ripening, you would swear, -- when I wrote them ; ;

In `` My Song's Young Virgin Date '', for example, Thompson wrote: `` Yea, she that had my song's young virgin date Not now, alas, that noble singular she, I nobler hold, though marred from her once state, Than others in their best integrity.

Sturley on November 4 answered a letter from Quiney written on October 25 which imported, wrote Sturley, `` that our countriman Mr. Wm. Shak. would procure us monei: which I will like of as I shall heare when, wheare & howe: and I prai let not go that occasion if it mai sort to ani indifferent condicions.

Baker wrote: `` I tooke order with Sr. E. Grevile for the payment of Ceartaine monei beefore his going towardes London.

He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.

Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.

It also happened with the Inauguration, which was not re-run at all during the evening hours, and I wrote to the TV editor of the Times.

I wrote her that I'd met up with Eileen and that old bonds had proved too strong and asked her to send my clothes down by express.

In December I wrote her with authority that we would meet on the steps of the Hotel Astor, a rendezvous spot that I had learned was the most sophisticated.

But in order to keep Letch in the public eye and out of trouble, I wrote in a part especially for him -- that of a dashing ruffian who `` sees the light '' and is saved by the inspiring example of Mother Cabrini.

`` I wrote Bill in my last letter to forget that I had told him that I didn't mean to reconsider my decision not to change my mind -- and he seems to have misunderstood me ''.