The Brill Building: all the classic songs were written here…

[@DavidBennettPiano]

📌CORRECTION: 10:07 Bacharach actually wrote "Baby It's You" not with Hal David but instead with Luther Dixon and Mack David. Sorry for any confusion and thank you to the commenter who brought this to my attention 😊 📌📌ALSO… at 2:42 I said “Walker” brothers instead of “Righteous” brothers. Sorry!

[@R.Akerman-oz1tf]

Nose to the grindstone, 9 to 5 types

[@KingoftheJuice18]

David, at 2:42 you called The Righteous Brothers "The Walker Brothers."

[@cmikesmith664]

@DavidBennettPiano please compare Robbie Williams “Forbidden Road” to Jim Croce’s “I Got a Name”.

[@klaxoncow]

What I find interesting is that these songwriters have very obvious styles. When you put their songs side-by-side, they actually have a lot of similarity to each other. BUT, of course, in practice, as they were giving different songs to different artists, all these different styles were mixed together and so there was a lot of diversity in style for the public to enjoy. I'm just thinking that this is somewhat unfair, in that when I write songs, I attempt to have a lot of variety - you want each song to be unique and say something new - but that takes a lot of work and experimenting. While these guys were essentially refining the same style of song again and again, but we don't directly see how focused they were, because it was all mixed up in its public presentation. The difference between being independent and part of a big machine, I guess.

[@R.Akerman-oz1tf]

@@klaxoncow It takes all kinds to make a deck of cards.

[@fileunderwater]

Would be nice with a part two that went into some of the typical aspects of Brill building pop; chord progressions, song structure, rhythms etc

[@oliverzwahlen]

I would actually be intrested in the history of the Brill Building. How comes that they all ended up in one place, what led to their decline (rather than the obvious point with the Beatles) and also what is now there.

[@dalecoffing8655]

Thanks David, for a trip down a memory lane. I'm 72 and have had the opportunity to play guitar in the pit for several musicals. Most recently this past summer I got to play for "Beautiful Carol King" in a summer stock performance. It was great. Stumbled on to your channel while recuperating from a broken leg four years ago. Have learned so much following you. Thanks.

[@hbofbyu1]

This is great. Don't let the music and the memories die.

[@artisans8521]

There is a documentary about the Brill building. Made by Jim Terr. But since my parents were under the impression that music was noise (my father was a church childrens chior soloist until his voice broke, and I'm still not sure what other shit went down there, but he never talked about it), I didn't hear music till I was 7 and hospitalized for 2 weeks with a concussion cause by a rock on which I landed my head after being pushed of a wall by a friend in a rather wild game. The hospital had its own radio station so I was "forced" to listen to pop music more or less 24/7. Result, when I could go home I more or less refused and my mam and dad had to drag me out. Most of the songs were on that playlist. I had to spend six extremely boring weeks at home, but then I discovered the radio, and spend them in front of it. All these magical songs, may some call trivial, but these are the things that keep you going during your life. Not high art, not literature, but a song playing in the background, can make a day feel bearable.

[@jamarwashington6419]

Preach! I know that feeling & remain addicted to good music to endure the ups & downs of life. Because music got worst in ways as time progressed in the 90s, i grew up listening to oldies aka 80s, 70s, & 60s music. I even listened to 90s Japanese music to avoid the music that was on the radio in the mid to late 90s. Then music got so much worst after the 90s that i finally went back & learned to appreciate & love even the 90s music i hated, flaws & all. Today, all my "new" music is old music ive yet to truly hear with my adult mind. Ive been listening to mostly 60s music for years now(im in my late 30s now). The power of melody & quality production expresses the beauty of life like nothing else....transecends language(hence the foreign world loves great American music & even i love great foreign music despite language barriers...btw, Japan has alot of good stuff in the 80s & 90s...their industry went another direction embracing melody & things learned from the 60s more so than much our 90s music...look into the genre "city pop", its pretty interesting among many other 90s j-pop).

[@annamariaisland1960]

Lot of fun here! Another tidbit of trivia is that in their early days, Lennon & McCartney's goal was to become song writers like Goffin & King. Kind of like Ringo planning on opening some hair salons when the Beatles fad ended.

[@iluvpepi]

Thank you for this video. So many classic tunes from all those songwriters

[@pauliecaccamise1980]

All these songs are bangers and full of so much talent and soul

[@louisa9363]

Nearly all the writers were Jewish

[@Stephen_Lafferty]

What a fantastic set of songs to come from just that one location!

[@NealFox]

I was fortunate to be at the tail end of the Brill Bldg's and 1650's hay-days. Most of those hits were already done and the Beatles were changing things big time. But I still got to get the life style into my blood and career. Great times!

[@royalex21]

My family and I are going to NYC in a few weeks! I'm definitely going to stop by there!

[@ynda777]

The facade is still beautiful but there is nothing of the music industry there. Its right at the top of Times Square so its easy to walk by

[@auldthymer]

@@ynda777 Even Colony Records is gone. I spent hundreds of dollars there while they were in business.

[@ynda777]

@@auldthymer While they had a copy of seemingly every obscure record, they were pricey! I always walked over to Sam Goody (on 6th ave?)

[@auldthymer]

@@ynda777 Oh yes. But I went through a phase where I wanted to hear ev-er-y-thing recorded by Bing Crosby.

[@Borella309]

I know all these songs, artists and songwriters - but as you progress through this video I start to go, "Oh Yes - that's the greatest" etc with each set of songwriters - just amazing how much talent we have been lucky to have experienced in our lives. If someone put a gun to my head and said "Pick the best songwriting team out of all of these", I'd say "Pull the trigger".

[@R.Akerman-oz1tf]

Luv Em All. Bacharach/David are My Fave(I usually don't have favorites).

[@Patrickwelsh1]

Paul Simon also started off writing sings in the Brill Building... and is in one of the early photos in the video.

[@appledoreman]

He also issued some singles that sank without trace. His time hadn't yet come.

[@JohnnyCameo]

Some incredible composing teams but, for me, Bacharach and David edge it in terms of number of high class of compositions

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

That was the soundtrack of my youth. Merci. In the 1970s and 1980s, people had a habit when visiting someone to look at the record collection. Everyone had Tapestry. Everyone. You mentioned Burt Bacharach. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. She is the sister of Lili, who died too young. She was carrying on a tradition of music that can be traced back to Napoli Orphanages that dominated European music until the 1800s. Quincy Jones was another who studied with her.

[@auldthymer]

Salut à Nadia! I recently learned she also worked Charles Strouse, composer of Bye-Bye Birdie and Annie. How can one teacher give rise to such divergent music?

[@joermnyc]

Had to look it up to remember, a few blocks south between 6th and 7th avenues on 48th street was “Music row” with all the shops selling instruments like Manny’s Music. And there was a Sam Ash Pro in the building on 7th that sold like mixing desks and all kinds of expensive studio gear. All of that is gone now.

[@succumbtoviolets]

My favorite Goffin/King story is that they had written a song for The Crystals called "He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)" ( a controversial-enough song even in the early '60s that some radio stations wouldn't play it) about their babysitter Eva Boyd, the "LIttle Eva" for whom they later made "The Loco-Motion."

[@tonybates7870]

That is a superb song and it was way ahead of its time, dealing as it did with a complicated subject. His hitting her was obviously a bad thing but the emotion behind it meant that he cared about her. No wonder it was controversial, and the fact that a man - Goffin - wrote those lyrics presumably made it even more so.

[@sergejisd]

03:22 Surrender is the English version of a Neapolitan song entitled "Torna a Surriento" ("Come Back to Sorrento"), composed by the Italian musician Ernesto De Curtis, while his brother Giambattista wrote the lyrics. Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman only re-arranged the music and wrote the English lyrics. "Torna a Surriento" was covered by various artists: from Enrico Caruso to Frank Sinatra, From Fean Martin to Luciano Pavarotti, from Jerry Vale to Il Volo.

[@ynda777]

I used to work at Sound One (87-91) and there were always stories of the past music history were floating around. Today I pick up prescriptions where great movies were mixed.(its now a CVS)

[@Peter-pb8jg]

Soundtrack of my youth...

[@macsnafu]

I was thinking that Neil Diamond was also a Brill Building songwriter, but looking it up, I see that he actually got started at Tin Pan Alley, but wasn't there very long before he started doing his own albums.

[@appledoreman]

I'm not 100% sure, but I think he was at the Brill. He certainly went a long time (maybe as long as 4 years) trying to find the magic formula of successful song-writing before 'Solitary Man' hit in 1966.

[@407arcade]

Interresting video about the Brill Building in New York, i am enjoyed listenning your video, i like,, Alain

[@composer7325]

Excellent,David,thank you.

[@MrGeorgeNkillersmile]

I really love these series about songwriters ❤

[@Fabiano.Bittencourt]

These are my favorite videos. Cheers from Brazil.

[@Juliaflo]

The legendary Brill Building--temple of hit songs.

[@JustAFocus]

Good video, but oops... "You've Lost that Loving Feeling" by the Righteous Brothers, not the Walker Brothers. 😊

[@dockerdave]

Fantastic video. I find this whole concept of professional songwriting teams to be fascinating. I started listening to music as a 13yo in 1984 and all my favourite bands - Duran Duran, Wham!, Spandau Ballet, INXS, Eurythmics etc - wrote and performed their own music. The idea of people churning out hits for others is really interesting.

[@ChristianSirianni]

I love this David. I didn't know that this was the building that gave birth to the 50s and 60s music:):):):)

[@stevenkaminsky]

There is a myth that rock music was great in the early days of Rock (Elvis, Chuck Berry, Everly Brothers, etc.), then went dormant, then got good again with the Beatles and the British invasion. People who actually lived through this time know the truth. The interregnum was a great, fun, entertaining time, too. Music was not dormant. I think of it as the era of the great songwriters. Glad you were able to bring this truth out in your excellent video. Thanks.

[@stephenandersen4625]

Never heard that “myth”. music has always had great new stuff and a lot of derivative drek

[@TheEpicImpaler]

All of that text and didn't mention surf or garage. Neat.

[@ITSupport-q1y]

Enjoyed this, thanks

[@grief8060]

id love to see you cover the chord progressions in Ash - Goldfinger, an underrated britpop hit that seamlessly changes from key to key multiple times throughout

[@tonybates7870]

That's a great song! And yeah, I know what you mean about that chord sequence - it *would* make a good video.

[@grief8060]

@ glad im not the only one

[@scottandrewbrass1931]

Brilliant stuff.

[@richardgratton7557]

Excellent video! Enjoyed it very much.😊❤

[@vultan2000]

Grace of My Heart (1996) is a great film based around a fictional character inspired by Carole King, including her time at the Brill Building.

[@PartTimeBuddhist]

Quick correction: "Baby It's You" was co-written by Bacharach, Luther Dixon, and Mack David (Hal David's older brother). I think Bacharach was teaming up with a number of people before the Hal David partnership truly solidified. Who can forget Bacharach-Mack David's "The Blob"?

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Good catch! I'll pin a correction

[@PartTimeBuddhist]

@@DavidBennettPiano Clearly you weren't staring at the back covers of your Beatles albums long enough. 😊

[@MaxStockinMusic]

Great video - really informative! 🧡

[@grahamdowney5550]

You should make a video like this showcasing recording engineers

[@ryanhayward7358]

Just a small ask, could you make a Spotify playlist for videos like these, I knew every song on this list and they were all amazing tunes I've loved over the years

[@ポールの赤テレ]

WHAT? Does anyone else think that photo of a young Gerry Goffin looks like he could be David's ancestor?

[@collacartacorde]

Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman wrote Surrender for Elvis Presley in 1961? It must have been very hard for them to find an assonance between Surriento and Surrender and create English lyrics for the song Torna ‘A Surriento, written in 1894 You can also say that It’s Now Or Never was composed in 1960 instead of saying that English lyrics was written to ‘O Sole Mio (1898)

[@itim777]

These are literally the greatest songs of all time 😂

[@jeff__w]

Didn’t Laura Nyro, who wrote, among other hits, “And When I Die,” “Wedding Bell Blues,” “Stoned Soul Picnic,” and “Stoney End,” also come out of the Brill Building? And I’m not doubting that the heyday of the Brill Building lasted till about 1963 but, given that Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s songs, Carole King’s, and others (including those of Laura Nyro, if she’s included) were really popular in the late 1960s into the early 1970s, its influence seems to have lasted at least a decade more.

[@lupcokotevski2907]

I don't believe that Laura Nyro worked in the Brill Building. In 1966 aged 18 she was busy recording her first album. However, her first three albums were recorded with session musicians associated with the Brill Building, including several that went on to play for Steely Dan. Nyro was a big influence on the Dan.

[@jeff__w]

@lupcokotevski2907 Thanks! Obviously, I wasn't sure. (It's like she missed it by, say, half a decade or so.) Maybe we can say she was “Brill Building adjacent” as in close to or associated with people who _did_ work there.

[@lupcokotevski2907]

@jeff__w Indeed. Cheers.

[@tonybates7870]

The term 'genius' gets bandied about a lot but I think in Nyro's case it's a pretty accurate description.

[@JustAFocus]

One old song that I love is "Baby" by Ellie Greenwich (1965). She & Him (Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward) did a nice cover of it.

[@owenfitzgerald5928]

Wait does anyone else think Gerry Goffin looks like David Bennett

[@djjoe8899]

Could you do a video on harmonic techniques and how to apply them?

[@frankowalker4662]

Great little documentary. Cheers. (I sung along to every one of them. lol)

[@stephenharwood381]

I first heard of the Brill Building in 'Epitaph for my Heart' by The Magnetic Fields: "Who will mourn the passing of my heart? Will its little droppings climb the pop chart? Who'll take its ashes and singing, fling Them from the top of the Brill Building?"

[@DrBeah]

I have no idea when the video was shot, but at 8:37, Christmas Baby, the guitarist with the shades and bandana sure looks like Steve Van Zandt of the E Street Band (and The Sopranos).

[@yoshi4youmusic632]

Hey David, I admire your music and your content and have been following your channel for quite a bit. Today I've come across the octatonic scale, something I had never heard of before (Video from Ryan Leach about how John Williams changes keys). I would really love to see a video from you about it since it would help me a lot with my own arranging and songwriting.

[@tonybates7870]

That would be right up David's street because Radiohead use the octatonic scale in *Just*, from 'The Bends'.

[@jimbrentar]

You failed to mention Neil Diamond. Neil started off as a Brill Bldg songwriter.He wrote I'm A Believer for the Monkees

[@jules8002]

Very interesting , thank you. That was when music was proper music with great lyrics, feel and beat, and not the crap they dish out today!

[@beatxt]

You might want to do a follow-up on the 'son of Brill' - Bubblegum. Which reinvented the hit-writing factory idea from 1967ish through to Glam. Interestingly the Kasenetz and Katz bubblegum conception at times also involved 3 members-to-be of 10CC - Gouldman, Goldley and Creme. When G&C quit 10cc they put a track called Hit Factory/Business is Business on their 2nd album.

[@jeremiahlyleseditor437]

Great Video

[@jimbrentar]

Kansas City was originally recorded by Little Willie Littlefield.

[@Ringohulk777]

Monkees reference!! What joy

[@ReinoGoo]

Brill musik from the Brill building.

[@nealfig]

The "Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!" part of the Beatles' "Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!" is credited to Richard Penniman (Little Richard).

[@auldthymer]

psst! I'm pretty sure Cynthia Weil was pronounced like "while"

[@willie_the_monkey_king]

I didn’t know Always Something There to Remind Me was a cover

[@robertbrescia3196]

That song was originally recorded by the female artist in this video and then covered by Dionne Warwick and R.B. Greaves, both of whom had minor chart hits with it. The best known and most played version is by Naked Eyes (1983).

[@robrudmanwheelbuilder]

Hi David , would you consider doing feedback on the Shadows , in particular of the skills and unique sound of Hank Marvin’s guitar playing .

[@doctormojo]

No shout out to the Brill Building (or maybe Tin Pan Alley...) being the source of the name of the long-running BBC live music show The Old Grey Whistle Test? If they heard the doormen whistling a tune they'd heard then it would likely be a hit.

[@Xarthis]

How did you withstand the temptation to put in the Beatles' version of "Baby, It's You"?

[@DonDueed]

Haha, I was waiting for that too!

[@blessedwithchallenges9917]

Make Your Own Kind of Music... written for the artist/singer by two guys in a music writer's building - irony 😅

[@jaygillotti610]

Husband and wife team - Mann & Weil. A bit ironic but also demonstrates the skill of great songwriting (to occasionally communicate something outside or beyond your own experience).

[@catherine6653]

Nice history lesson.

[@BushBumperBaker]

Ah, Brill. My favourite Undead starting zone village in WoW.

[@sputniki5477]

Juggy gave me the ol' Hucklebuck!

[@oravlaful]

10:33 is this sampled by that one doja cat song?? have you talked about it in one of your videos on samples?

[@SuperBeachbum74]

Beatles wrote their own songs cause they could only sing in one octave. Imagine Lennon singing “ I Paliagi “, that’d be brutal and painful.

[@ABIRHS]

I am pretty much sure the song "APT." by rose and bruno mars, they copied this tune in the music from some other music but which one? can u tell us @david

[@gj8683]

Probably too far off the topic for this video, but wasn't the Brill Building the site of the "Old Grey Whistle Test"?

[@1KGB]

Her name was pronounced Cynthia "while".

[@danielkoschalka3955]

And YLTLF was sung by the Righteous Brothers, not the Walker Brothers!

[@victorhugotoledocofre1366]

In German it's more like English "vile", with neither initial "w" sound nor aspiration, but with a "v" sound.

[@micahbrill]

Good name for a building…

[@Peter-pb8jg]

Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!is a separate song from Kansas City. IIRC, the Beatles had to pay catchup royalties to Little Richard years later

[@AllThePiecesMatter_]

I was watching a Rick Beato video the other day on The Beatles' She's Leaving Home and in the comments section, someone said they stand out because they had no competition as songwriters. Other than Dylan, Townshend, Davies, Jagger/Richards, Hendrix and everybody mentioned in this video is what they must have meant. Yeh. No competition.

[@love_it_to_death]

From 1967, in terms of range of subject matter x depth x sophistication I have to agree with Rick

[@maverator]

My only knowledge of this building is the song Brill Bruisers by The New Pornographers.

[@slidenaway]

Damn I almost made this comment, figured it wasn’t worth it 😢😂 for the record it’s an album title too :) awesome album!!

[@GibusWearingMann]

And here I thought that this style of composition was all about building "brills", whatever those were. In my defense, there are a lot of crescendos in this genre.

[@tjcronley9462]

No big deal, but "Something Tells Me I'm in for Something Good" was first done by Earl Jean of the Cookies (Check it out !), not Herman, who took a respectable shot at it.

[@jeffffff12]

Willber Harrison recorded Kansas Cirt Before Little Richards and the Beatles. Look on the Beatles album and see what that says. If I remember correct.

[@robertbrescia3196]

Harrison's version hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 1959.

[@jeffffff12]

@@robertbrescia3196 Oh,I thought Wilber was a bit earlier........? Sorry.

[@gerrymcguire7521]

You’ve lost that loving feeling by the Walker Brothers? whaaa?

[@davidhertz2544]

Weren't Donald Fagen and Walter Becker Brill Building song writers?

[@diamonddog13]

Not exactly. They initially tried to be, and ended up working for Jay and the Americans. But I don't think they actually ever worked as songwriters in the Brill Building.

[@davidhertz2544]

​@@diamonddog13 Interesting. Thanks!

[@Rigel7WasAlreadyUsed]

9:35 who is the girl?

[@collacartacorde]

Dionne Warwick without hairspray

[@OVER5TEER]

Don't forget about Neil Diamond...

[@ricardoediza2690]

They was the Pharrell of the day

[@Alchemetica]

My perspective is that about 50% of the songs from the Brill Building era were subpar. When we compare the songwriting of contemporary artists to that of the Brill writers, there is a noticeable difference. On platforms like Spotify, also known to be marginally easier than pirating songs, it is now relatively common to find songs with multiple songwriters-sometimes as many as twelve-who are not even part of the band or the production team. As the number of songwriters increases, we also see a rise in derivative works that tend to sound similar to existing songs, along with a higher likelihood of poorly crafted songs. This trend has been particularly evident over the last twenty years. *Why were mediocre songs viewed as 'hits'? This phenomenon can be attributed to payola, a practice in which managers and record labels secretly compensated DJs. They also targeted specific record stores to manipulate sales data that would contribute to Top 40 charts. Labels would even send individuals to purchase particular records, thereby inflating sales figures and altering the song's chart position. A higher rank typically resulted in increased airplay from radio stations, creating a sense of familiarity among listeners. This psychological effect ultimately encouraged more people to buy the record.

[@Slotnikoff]

You've listened to most of the songs from "The Brill Building" period and were able to come up with the conclusion that fifty percent of them were "sub-par"? Well, that still leaves fifty percent of them that were "above-par"; a pretty good number considering that writing a great song is not as easy as it might seem. And as for payola, it has been said MANY TIMES, that a song that proved to be a "hit" was probably aided somewhat by "payola" but no matter how much money was spent on it, if it sucked, it sucked.... and no amount of coin passed would be able to save it.

[@Alchemetica]

@@Slotnikoff I assumed readers would understand that I was commenting on the video. Although 50% of the songs from the Brill Building highlighted were subpar, they still went on to become hits, as the video rightly shows. The explanation for this is the system of paying DJs. Even when this practice was outlawed in the USA, there are numerous accounts of cash being slipped to DJs in person or the more widespread method of gifting them a weekend away, vouchers, or products. The purchasing of records at stores surveyed for sales by, I believe, the BBC was widespread in the 1960s and was admitted by managers of some groups of the era. As time has moved on, methodologies have varied. There is an excellent ABC Four Corners report on Sony Records in Australia and how they operated to get sales and the denial of knowledge by Sony HQ in New York about the methods and management in Sydney. It's a real eye-opener on how the record label system worked in the near past and, by implication, the Sony Label worldwide. Disgusting would be one word to describe it. The video is on KZbin, and you can search for it. Why do I hold these views? For the last 27 years, I have received royalties on my works and have a little knowledge and first-hand experience

[@thesuncollective1475]

Brill building. When did they name it?...I'm assuming after the success..or they just being cocky before the fact?

[@thesuncollective1475]

Brill were Bros..it was named in 1931 LOL

[@colinbaker3916]

David You said Walker Brothers, when you meant Righteous Brothers.

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Oh yeah! Good spot!!

[@dtlfc3032]

The title of the song is, Will you love me tomorrow? Not, Will you still love me tomorrow?

[@bernhardwall6876]

Does the fact that so many of these songs were written by people who didn't perform them diminish the greatness of the performers, compared to one that were written and performed by the same people, like the Beatles?

[@MKPiatkowski]

No. I hate this framing. Some people can excel in one area but not another - singer or songwriter - but the net output is still brilliant. Collaboration doesn't diminish work and most times elevate it. Song interpretation is an art in itself. Are you saying that Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin aren't brilliant because they didn't write their songs? A ton of singer songwriters pale in comparison.

[@guprovasi]

And now we have AI music 😢

[@adrianhepton9362]

I love the Brill Building catalogue, unfortunately though Max Martin, Shellback etc do have some merit the Brill Building still towers over them, in my opinion.

[@CaryG6666]

50,000 songs with the same 4-chord structure.

[@SuperBeachbum74]

They wrote for real singers with vocal skills because most singer songwriters only sing in one octave, if that ! Or monotone !

[@wardnek-q2v]

Nice try but way off the mark. Half these songwriters never set foot in the Brill Building

[@Syncop8rNZ]

So... artists singing songs written by others is not just a modern thing. (Are they still "artists"? 🤔)

[@Paulnap]

Just not composers but hey are performers/interpreters/artists. Thank God The beatles ended this with "GTFO, I can write and perform my own shit" and pop music took a step forward instead of sounding all the same 3 chords.

[@MKPiatkowski]

Yes. Stop this framing, please. Interpreting a song is it's own art, as you can tell by listening to great singers. Would rather have a great singer sing someone else's song then an average singer sing their own song. Nothing wrong with being a specialist. Is Mozart less of an artist because he never sang his own compositions?

[@Syncop8rNZ]

@@MKPiatkowski No, Mozart WAS an artist because he composed things. Bad comparison. Is someone who copies another's paintings an artist?

[@MKPiatkowski]

@@Syncop8rNZ Bad comparison. Singers are not copying another painting. The songwriter lays out the chords, melody, sometimes other elements. It's like putting out all the ingredients for a meal. A singer add flavour and puts it all together.

[@CaryG6666]

This is nonsense. Check out The Great American Songbook: the Gershwins, Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter, Berlin, Mercer, Loesser, etc. They all wrote works of art, and professional singers interpreted them. And arrangers like Nelson Riddle elevated them to the heavens. The singer-songwriter era was the beginning of the end of quality music.

[@toothbrush5190]

All? How ridiculous

[@Kraflyn]

this video is sponsored by your viewers, isn't it?

[@nicadcock]

real creators unlike today tedious 3 4 note riff repetitive chorus