If a list was made today it would have to have Chris Stapleton.

Here is a songwriter for you that you may not have heard of but will know the songs that other artists sang. Paul Gilley. Anyone know of any songs he wrote?

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No Steve Goodman? He only wrote the greatest country and western song of all time!

 

Love that song!

 

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A solid list of famous and massively famous artists.

Paul Simon gets mine if m picking just one.

 

If it weren't for Lennon, McCartney and Dylan, I'd be with you.

 

My number 4 - makes it to Mount Rushmore.

Here is a songwriter for you that you may not have heard of but will know the songs that other artists sang. Paul Gilley. Anyone know of any songs he wrote?

 

Didn't know this... This is very interesting.

 

No Jim Croce? Really?

No Jim Croce? Really?

 

Good call... seems he often times gets forgotten, which is a shame because he was such a good and distinctive one-of-a-kind singer/songwriter that there's no mistaking it when you hear a song by him. Once in a blue moon I might hear one of his tunes, but generally it seems that he's sadly often overlooked, and terribly underplayed.

Didn't know this... This is very interesting.

 

 

Thanks for posting this I hadn't seen this one. He was our neighbor in Ezel, Morgan Co. I remember the day he drowned. I was just 5 but I remember some neighbors coming and getting my dad, they thought it was my brother that had drowned, but it was Paul. Their farm was next to ours.

 

If the rest of you all have not watched this video, you need to if you like country music. You will learn who really wrote some of the most famous songs. One is , I Am So Lonesome I Could Cry sang by Elvis.

Thanks for posting this I hadn't seen this one. He was our neighbor in Ezel, Morgan Co. I remember the day he drowned. I was just 5 but I remember some neighbors coming and getting my dad, they thought it was my brother that had drowned, but it was Paul. Their farm was next to ours.

 

If the rest of you all have not watched this video, you need to if you like country music. You will learn who really wrote some of the most famous songs. One is , I Am So Lonesome I Could Cry sang by Elvis.

 

And here I thought all along that Hank Williams had written all of his own songs.

 

That's so interesting that you were neighbors with Paul. Sad that he died so young... just imagine with his talent the many more songs he might've written. Wild too was where they said that his mother had burned up his papers when he died.

And here I thought all along that Hank Williams had written all of his own songs.

 

That's so interesting that you were neighbors with Paul. Sad that he died so young... just imagine with his talent the many more songs he might've written. Wild too was where they said that his mother had burned up his papers when he died.

 

I knew he wrote them, but like you most didn't know. Why I asked for other posters to watch the video you posted. Thanks again for posting it. I really appreciate it.

 

He had royalty checks and more songs written, but they grieved so much that they burnt them and his parents died just a few years after he did. He was a only child.

 

He also played basketball at Morehead , but wasn't real good, just tall. His talent was his song writing. Ezel , where we are from, is a VERY small place in the road. You blink your eyes and you are out of it....:lol2:

I knew he wrote them, but like you most didn't know. Why I asked for other posters to watch the video you posted. Thanks again for posting it. I really appreciate it.

 

He had royalty checks and more songs written, but they grieved so much that they burnt them and his parents died just a few years after he did. He was a only child.

 

He also played basketball at Morehead , but wasn't real good, just tall. His talent was his song writing. Ezel , where we are from, is a VERY small place in the road. You blink your eyes and you are out of it....:lol2:

 

I'm always intrigued to hear about places throughout the State of Ky that I'm unfamiliar with. There's an incredible interesting charm about the Bluegrass State. Being a Northern Kentuckian (Covington) raised in the shadows of Cincinnati, Oh, just a stone's throw from the Ohio River, I've often felt a bit like I'm in Limbo as I'm not an Ohioan, yet when working in Cincinnati they sometimes seemed to think, "Oh he's from Kentucky", yet being from Northern Kentucky I've never completely felt like I had earned the title of Kentuckian with having so limited knowledge of the rest of the state other than NKY, and occasional trips to Lexington, Louisville, and Frankfort. I'm proud of where I'm from, but almost feel like a man without a state. If you dropped me off somewhere deep in Kentucky I'd be crap up a creek without a paddle, and I wouldn't even be able to begin to fake being a Kentuckian, and would be figured out in a heartbeat that I wasn't a local. With all that said, still I get all choked up every time I hear "My Old Kentucky Home". If I were given the choice of watching a documentary on a big city metropolis, or a small town like in Kentucky, I'm choosing the small town everyday.

If it weren't for Lennon, McCartney and Dylan, I'd be with you.

 

My number 4 - makes it to Mount Rushmore.

 

Been thinking about this. McCartney and Lennon wrote too many 2:35 songs way to quick. They did write some great songs later, but they wrote too many too quick.

Been thinking about this. McCartney and Lennon wrote too many 2:35 songs way to quick. They did write some great songs later, but they wrote too many too quick.

 

I think that this is an interesting take. I don't really know how to formulate a response, and in some ways I can't completely disagree.

 

They did create a remarkable body of work in a relatively short period of time, and I personally very much love so many of their tunes from the super poppy ones early in their career to the more experimental ones later in their career, and so many innovative gems in between.

 

I almost think that they spoiled us to death with their plethora of work that it appeared to come too easy for them to see it as the ingenious work that it really was.

 

There was a certain similarity in their hit after hit in the early part of their career that it almost felt as if they kept on rewriting the same song, though they were still just fantastic memorable songs that though no doubt from that early era, are simply just timeless gems, and they never get old from being so enjoyable to listen to.

 

I'd say that their influences with those early tunes were out there boldly on their sleeves, but once they got past that initial pop sound then there were no holds barred, and out popped so many amazing originally innovative melodic phenomenal tunes that didn't always so much nod to their obvious influences heard in the songs previously.

 

Your statement is bold, and in some ways possibly worthy, but maybe just maybe you might be concentrating too much on those first 2:35 tunes in their career, and not enough at their entire body of work, and what it became. In your defense you did mention their later work, but IMO it was just too remarkable to not view as incredibly significant.

 

How's that for being rendered speechless, and not being able to formulate a response? :lol2: