songwriting

Snoop Dogg and Kelly Clarkson to host a U.S. version of the 'Eurovision Song Contest'

1:58pm February 15, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

NBC's American Song Contest will feature live performances representing all U.S. states, territories and Washington, D.C., with viewers voting for the best original song.

Young Jada Salter and her grandfather, William Salter, in 2002.

'Just The Two Of Us' Songwriter Found His Sound In Solitude

6:59am February 12, 2021

by Abe Selby

William Salter, who co-wrote the popular love song, told his granddaughter that the radio kept him company during a lonely childhood. When he later found the bass, he said, "I found myself."

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Songwriter Allee Willis attends PAWS/LA presents An Evening of Comedy and Kitsch at Avalon in 2012 in Hollywood.

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Songwriter Allee Willis, Whose Work Spanned 'Friends' And 'The Color Purple,' Dies

3:43pm December 25, 2019

by Tanya Ballard Brown

Willis, 72, also worked with Earth, Wind & Fire. She says she learned from the band's Maurice White to "never let the lyric get in the way of the groove."

Paul McCartney and John Lennon wrote songs for The Beatles under Lennon-McCartney, but a new statistical model can be used to tell who actually took the lead.

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A Songwriting Mystery Solved: Math Proves John Lennon Wrote 'In My Life'

8:19am August 11, 2018

John Lennon and Paul McCartney have differing memories of who wrote the music for "In My Life." A mathematics professor has spent 10 years working with statistics to decide once and for all.