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Topic: BIG HIT WRITERS, WRITTEN BY FORGOTTEN PEOPLE

How many songs are on the radio, and this is real frustrating, you haven't a clue about who the writer or performer is.
Since a lot of radiostations play only music, and the commercials every 10 minutes, a lot of them don't announce the artist, or they tell the list of artists before or after.
There is one thing that makes me really nervous, hearing a very familiar tune and NOT KNOWING THE PERFORMER(S)
- Do you have the same problem?
- Are there still "writers put together" writing as an entity?

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Re: BIG HIT WRITERS, WRITTEN BY FORGOTTEN PEOPLE

HI phil,I hear alot of these tunes everyday,I am fifty nine so I do rember most of the artist and writers names. I live in california near san francisco. That helps alot.

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Re: BIG HIT WRITERS, WRITTEN BY FORGOTTEN PEOPLE

It is amazing how many one hit wonders there were out there, especially in the 60's. When I am on a long drive I listen to the Sattelite radio and try to guess the artist and it is amazing how many I do not know but I can sing every word of the song.

there are all kinds of them out there and i am sure there are few people out there that can get the names of the performers of those one hit wonder songs.

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Re: BIG HIT WRITERS, WRITTEN BY FORGOTTEN PEOPLE

gitaardocphil wrote:

How many songs are on the radio, and this is real frustrating, you haven't a clue about who the writer or performer is.
Since a lot of radiostations play only music, and the commercials every 10 minutes, a lot of them don't announce the artist, or they tell the list of artists before or after.
There is one thing that makes me really nervous, hearing a very familiar tune and NOT KNOWING THE PERFORMER(S)
- Do you have the same problem?
- Are there still "writers put together" writing as an entity?

Lieven,
I know that virgin radio and Rock radio 96 in scotland has a playlist on their website.
So if you hear a song and you never caught on to who the band was the nye can look up the website. I think with virgin radio you can even type in the time you heard the song and it will tell you who it was. I have done this a few times.

ken

ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending
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Re: BIG HIT WRITERS, WRITTEN BY FORGOTTEN PEOPLE

I think that the band "Golden Earing" was a one hit wonder, because really their only big hit was "radar love", and after that they wern't heard from much.

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Re: BIG HIT WRITERS, WRITTEN BY FORGOTTEN PEOPLE

I don't know for sure about the GOLDEN EARRING.
If that band should be an American band, it would be one of the greatest.
I don't know if there was a lot of money left for these guys, because a tour was exhausting and expensive.
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