Tricia, on 01 December 2010 - 10:57 AM, said:
No time to search up and share some of my fave lyrics...but I occasionally use a bit of a lyric I like in my sig.
I have gotten to be just as interested in the songwriter now as the singer/s thanks to a show that was on GAC a couple of years back. Might be remembering the name wrong but I think that show was called "The HitMen of Music Row" Four guys who write a lot of songs in the country genre (and not the old twangy things you're likely thinking of), songs that are sometimes --IMHO anyway--so lyrically beautiful. They've had over a hundred #1's between them.
That show made me start actually looking for who wrote the song now. (GAC puts the songwriters's names at the end of the videos) Sometimes now I can hear a song and guess correctly who had some part in writing it. A little harder with pop and rock etc songs to find the songwriters name .
BTW--I listen to everything from country to pop to R&B and sometimes even a little rap. Very ecletic here.
Sometimes I discover artists in roundabout ways. I'll fall in love with a song, then hear it sung by several different people. Then I find out who wrote it. When I finally hear it sung by the author, I wonder why I ever bothered to listen to all those other wonderful versions, because the original is even better!

And then I'm a fan of that artist for life!
I also like funny songs as well as pretty ones. A while ago I learned that Shel Silverstein had written number of country songs, the most famous being "A Boy Named Sue". So if you hear a silly one now and then, it's probably one of his!
SFG