Unlike novels and poems, songs are often written by more than one person. A songwriting team can work their magic in various ways. The Beatles for example. Many, perhaps most of their songs, were team efforts. Paul on the other hand wrote Yesterday alone but added John to the credits because that was the deal they both agreed to when they began to write together.
Some famous songs gave a songwriting credit to someone who only added one idea. As Gate Lepine tells it, that is what happened with Stompin’…
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