Log In
Register
8.14pm
13 November 2011
Offline
When you put your stuff in iTunes or Spotify etc., what do you put for the composer name. For songs like A Day In The Life , Across The Universe , or Cry Baby Cry , do you put Lennon/McCartney like the original agreement between John and Paul, or do you give John the true credit?
[sp_show_poll id=”24″]
"Time wounds all heels."
-John Lennon
9.39pm
Reviewers
Moderators
1 May 2011
Offline Well I use John Lennon /Paul McCartney . Same for everything – first and second names.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
9.54pm
1 November 2012
Offline I don’t put either. But I’m reminded of the funk pop group War, who apparently long ago had made the mutual agreement to put the same credits — of all band members plus their friend and producer Jerry Goldstein — to EVERY song they record, no matter who “really” wrote it. So on any given War album, you will simply see the following for any and all songs:
“Allen – Brown – Dickerson – Jordan – Miller – Oskar – Scott – Goldstein”
(this was later adjusted when their bassist left in 1979, or their saxophonist was tragically murdered in 1980)
Faded flowers, wait in a jar, till the evening is complete... complete... complete... complete...
9.59pm
Reviewers
Moderators
1 May 2011
Offline Queen i think from the Miracle album onwards agreed that the credits for all songs read Queen.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
10.37pm
9 May 2012
Offline I never bother with that, i just have an artist name. Composer/songwriter is there if the file already had it written.
Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
3.24am
27 December 2012
Offline I don’t know too much of who wrote what, and I am a lazy guy to go look it up so all I do is just write “The Beatles” as composers. 
11.06am
26 March 2012
Offline
“Lennon/McCartney” if it’s John or Paul or both of them. Too much headache involved in specifying who “mainly” wrote them when to be honest we have no idea exactly how much input either of them had to each song. “Harrison” for George’s songs, “Starkey” for Ringo’s, and where appropriate some differences and amalgams, such as on What Goes On and Flying . So I use the traditional album credits, really.
SHUT UP - Paulie's talkin'
11.18am
Reviewers
17 December 2012
Offline The standard assignments, but usually with Christian names included.
"I only said we were bigger than Rod... and now there's all this!" Ron Nasty
To @ Ron Nasty it's @ mja6758
The Beatles Bible 2020 non-Canon Poll Part One: 1958-1963 and Part Two: 1964-August 1966
6.44am
5 November 2011
Offline When I downloaded all my 2009 remasters onto iTunes, all the songs were messed up, like some songs were only credited to John, and some were only Paul, and then some were credited to The Beatles, so I credited them all to Lennon/McCartney or John Lennon and Paul McCartney . I don’t remember which I did. It was just annoying me because there were songs mainly written by Paul credited to only John, and then the other way around. That was a huge waste of time, though, because when do I ever look at the composters?
All living things must abide by the laws of the shape they inhabit
1 Guest(s)