With less time to spend songwriting as she focused on a burgeoning film career, during the early 1980s Parton recorded a larger percentage of material from noted pop songwriters, such as Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Rupert Holmes, Gary Portnoy and Carole Bayer Sager.

** Burt Bacharach & Carole Bayer Sager ( songwriters ) for " That's What Friends Are For " performed by Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight & Stevie Wonder

** Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil & James Horner ( songwriters ) for " Somewhere Out There " performed by Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram

** James Horner, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil ( songwriters ) for Somewhere Out There performed by Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram

The New York Times wrote in 1996, " These albums were among the first pop records to devote such serious attention to individual songwriters, and they were instrumental in establishing the pop album as a vehicle for serious musical exploration.

Among the six teenage songwriters Simon selected for tutelage were Melissa Manchester, Tommy Mandel and rock / beat poet Joe Linus, with Maggie and Terre Roche ( the Roche Sisters ), who later sang back-up for Simon, joining the workshop in progress through an impromptu appearance.

Matthews and Roberts were the main songwriters.

Popular songwriters were also featured on radio, such as George Gershwin, who in addition to appearing as a guest, also had his own program in 1934.

* Singer and songwriters Mutya Buena and Keisha Buchanan, who both rose to fame as original members of pop group, Sugababes, were born and raised in Kingsbury and attended Kingsbury High School.

) Virtually every type of entertainment appeared on the show ; opera singers, popular artists, songwriters, comedians, ballet dancers, dramatic actors performing monologues from plays, and circus acts were regularly featured.

Diamond's Bang recordings were produced by legendary Brill Building songwriters Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, both of whom can be heard singing background on many of the tracks.

While her singles were mostly kept in the then-current sounds of the day such as Rock And Roll, novelty songs, the Twist, torch ballads, or the Girl Group Sound created by Brill Building alumni Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry, Francis ' albums represented her in a variety of styles, ranging in everything from R & B, vocal jazz and country to Broadway standards, children's music, waltzes, spiritual music, Schlager music, Traditionals from various ethnic groups represented in the US and select songs from popular songwriters of the day, such as Burt Bacharach & Hal David, or Les Reed.

While she was performing background on The Drifters's recording of " Mexican Divorce ," Warwick's voice and star presence were noticed by the song's composer, Burt Bacharach, a Brill Building songwriter who was writing songs with many other songwriters, including lyricist Hal David.

These publishers were in the market for large quantities of new music, providing an outlet for the creative work of many songwriters and composers

Although the band's singles were written by some of the top songwriters of the day, Noone, Leckenby, Hopwood and Green contributed songs such as " My Reservation's Been Confirmed ", " Take Love, Get Love ", " Marcel's ", " For Love ", " Tell Me Baby ", " Busy Line ", Moon Shine Man ", " I Know Why " and " Gaslight Street ".

This time, however, the band was allowed more creative control and professional songwriters were only used on a handful of songs.

It would have helped if, say Boyzone, had recorded songs by Irish songwriters, but most of their songs were written by songwriters from abroad, so we didn't even get a chance to have a song covered.

The song also gave Dion two Grammy Awards for " Best Female Pop Vocal Performance " and the most coveted " Record of the Year ", ( the song itself won four awards, but two were presented to the songwriters ).

Doris ' brothers Dan Fisher (" Good Morning Heartache ") and Marvin Fisher (" When Sunny Gets Blue ") were also songwriters.

Many of these were written by the English music hall songwriters R. P. Weston and Bert Lee.

As a result, professional songwriters were enlisted to provide the music for a plethora of star performers including, more notably Marie Lloyd, Dan Leno, Little Titch and George Leybourne.

Professional songwriters were enlisted to fill the gap.

The music houses in lower Manhattan were lively places, with a steady stream of songwriters, vaudeville and Broadway performers, musicians, and " song pluggers " coming and going.

Gimbel and Fox were also the songwriters of " Killing Me Softly with His Song " and the theme songs to films and programs such as Last American Hero (" I Got A Name ," sung by Jim Croce ), Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, and The New Adventures of Wonder Woman.

Prior to the development of the gramophone, Canadian songwriters ' works were published as sheet music, or in periodicals in local newspapers such as The Montreal Gazette and Toronto Empire.

Most recordings purchased by Canadians in the early days of the gramophone were made by American and British performers, behind some of these international hits were Canadian songwriters.

Anita and Bonnie were also nominated as songwriters for the Grammy Award for Best Country Song.

In 1983, the couple became the first songwriters ever to have written three of the five tunes nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song-" How Do You Keep the Music Playing?

He was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for his debut single " One Voice " and was nominated for Best Country Song for the songwriters, Don Cook and David Malloy.

The award was presented by singer Bette Midler, who, in her presentation of the nominated songs, called the song " ' That Song About the Moon and New York City ,' also known as ' Four on a Song ,' " referring to the four songwriters.

Benny and Björn scored their first hits as songwriters in the spring of 1969: " Ljuva Sextital " ( a hit with Brita Borg ) and " Speleman " ( a hit for The Hep Stars ).

Biafra had received sole songwriting credit for most Dead Kennedys songs on all released albums for the last 20 years or so without complaints from the band, though a minority of songs had given credit to certain group members or the entire band as a whole, indicating a system designed to reflect the primary composers rather than a regimented system like the Jagger / Richards partnership ; today, most Kennedys reissues list the songwriters as " Biafra, Dead Kennedys ", indicating Biafra's lyrical contributions — which the band doesn't dispute, or else simply as " Dead Kennedys ").

On March 1, 2007, the Library of Congress announced that Paul Simon, one of America's most respected songwriters and musicians, was the first recipient of the annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

Downey was sued for allegedly appropriating the words and music to his theme song from two songwriters.

Medley also had solo success: In 1984, he scored country hits with " Till Your Memory's Gone " and " I Still Do " ( which crossed over to the adult contemporary charts and later became a " cult " hit with the Carolina Beach / Shag dance club circuit ); and in late 1987, his duet with Jennifer Warnes — "( I've Had ) The Time of My Life ", which appeared on the soundtrack for Dirty Dancing — topped the Billboard Hot 100 and won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for a Motion Picture ( for the three songwriters, which did not include Medley ) as well as a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals ( which, of course, did ).

The Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting, established in 1955 in Novello's memory, are awarded each year by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors ( BASCA ) to British songwriters and composers as well as to an outstanding international music writer.

Yet with each new generation of English-speaking singers and songwriters, Brel is once again " discovered " for his songs.

Professional songwriters can either be employed to write directly for or alongside a performing artist, or they present songs to A & R, publishers, agents and managers for consideration.

He co-wrote with Baxter Taylor " Marie Laveau ", for which the songwriters received a 1975 BMI Award.

A member of the Brill Building gang of struggling songwriters, Darin was introduced to singer Connie Francis, for whom he helped write several songs.

In 2008, State Line Mob, a Southern rock duo group formed by singer and songwriters Phillip Crunk ( Florence native ) and Dana Crunk ( Rogersville native ), released their first CD, Ruckus and won two Muscle Shoals Music Awards for 2008 for ( Best New Artist ) and Best New Country Album ) of the year.

* Megan and Liz-Youtube celebrities, singer / songwriters, musicians, signed to Collective SoundsAnd also Jake Harroff & Trent Bybee for signing to the label Sam Marsh Records as a musical entrepreneurs.

Because of MTSU's large music program, the city has fostered a number of bands and songwriters, including: The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, A Plea for Purging, Self, Fluid Ounces, The Katies, Count Bass D, Destroy Destroy Destroy, The Features and PRo.