Songwriter

Lady Grizel Baillie (December 25, 1665–December 6, 1746), was a Scottish song-writer. The eldest daughter of Sir Patrick Hume (or Home) of Polwarth, afterwards earl of Marchmont, she was born at Redbraes Castle, Berwickshire. When she was twelve years old she carried letters from her father to the Scottish patriot, Robert Baillie of Jerviswood, who was then in prison. Home's friendship for Baillie made him a suspected man, and the king's troops occupied Redbraes Castle. He remained in hiding...

David Gates (born December 11 1940, in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the group Bread. Gates is the son of a band director and a piano teacher, and has been around music since he was young. He was proficient in piano, bass and guitar by the time he enrolled in Tulsa, Oklahoma's Will Rogers High School. As a teenager, Gates joined local bands around Tulsa. In 1957, his high school band backed Chuck Berry during a concert. Later, Gates...

Andy Sturmer is an American-born musical artist, writer and producer. He was a member of the band Jellyfish from 1990-1994. Prior to that, he was a member of Beatnik Beatch (1987-88). Jellyfish released two albums, Bellybutton (1990) and Spilt Milk (1993). Sturmer held the rare distinction of being a drummer who regularly sang lead in a rock group, a specialty shared by the likes of Ringo Starr, Levon Helm, Karen Carpenter, Don Henley, Peter Criss, Phil Collins, and Micky Dolenz. He was even...

Frank Crumit (sometimes misspelled "Crummit") (September 26, 1889 - September 7, 1943) was a popular United States singer and songwriter. Crumit was born in Jackson, Ohio, the son of Frank and Mary Poore Crumit, and he died of a heart attack in New York City at the age of 53. Attending local schools, Crumit graduated from high school in 1907. After briefly attending an Indiana military academy, he entered Ohio University and later Ohio State. His primary purpose for entering Ohio University...

Francis Hutcheson (c. 1722-1773) was a Scottish songwriter. He was the author of a number of popular songs, including "As Cohn one evening", "Jolly Bacchus" and "Where Weeping Yews". The son of philosopher Francis Hutcheson, he published some of his father's work after the latter's death.

Paul Hamilton Williams (born September 19 1940, in Omaha, Nebraska, USA) is an American musician, composer, songwriter and actor. Williams is responsible for a number of enduring pop hits from the 1970s, including "(Just an) Old Fashioned Love Song", a U.S. top-ten hit for the band Three Dog Night in late 1971 which reached #4, and a number of The Carpenters hits, most notably "We've Only Just Begun", which has since become a cover-band standard and de rigueur for weddings throughout North...

Chris Difford (born 4 November 1954, Greenwich, London) is a singer, songwriter and record producer. He has written lyrics for almost thirty years, most notably in partnership with Glenn Tilbrook. The two were primary members in Squeeze and Difford & Tilbrook. Some of their best-known song are "Tempted", "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)", "Black Coffee in Bed", "Cool for Cats", "Up the Junction" and "Annie Get Your Gun". Difford has also written lyrics for music by Jools Holland, Elton...

Lene Marlin (born August 17, 1980) is a Norwegian musician. She was born Lene Marlin Pedersen in Tromsø, Norway. Marlin made her Norwegian debut on October 12, 1998, with the single "Unforgivable Sinner", which proved to be a hit as it reached number one and kept that position for eight weeks. It was also the fastest selling single in Norwegian music history, and appeared in the soundtrack of the Norwegian movie Schpaaa. It was followed by her first album, Playing My Game. She won an MTV...

David Paich (born David Frank Paich on June 25 1954 in Los Angeles, California) is a session musician from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, keyboard player, vocalist and main composer of the Los Angeles based rock/pop band '''Toto'''. David is the son of the late jazz composer Marty Paich. David Paich is one of the most prolific songwriters of the 1980s. He wrote "Rosanna", "99", "Hold the Line", "Georgy Porgy", and most of Toto's hits over the years, including several 1970s hits by pop artists ...

David Lee Marks (born August 22, 1948) is a songwriter and musician. Sometimes referred to by Beach Boys historians as the "forgotten" Beach Boy, Marks was part of the group's line-up when they signed to Capitol Records in 1962. David Marks played rhythm guitar and sang harmony vocals. As a child, Marks had lived across the street from the family home of young Brian Wilson in 1956 and began playing music with them. By 1958, David Marks and Brian's younger brother Carl had begun to develop...

Darryl Purpose is an American singer-songwriter folk musician, known for his narrative (often very personal) lyrics and fingerstyle guitar. Before becoming a professional musician, Purpose was a professional card counter, and walked across the USA with The Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament. Purpose, DarrylPurpose, Darryl

Hubert Gregg (July 14 1914 - March 30 2004) was a BBC broadcaster, writer and stage actor, in recent times probably best known for the BBC Radio 2 "oldies" shows A Square Deal and Thanks For The Memory. In an earlier era he had also been a novelist, a theatre director and a hit songwriter. Born in Islington, London, he worked for the BBC since the 1930s, wrote the wartime hit I'm Going To Get Lit Up When The Lights Go On In London in 1943, and on seeing the German Doodlebug flying over London,...

Moe Berg (born 1959 at Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer for the rock group The Pursuit of Happiness. Before forming The Pursuit of Happiness, Berg was in the Edmonton bands Troc '59, The News, Modern Minds and facecrime. After working with The Pursuit of Happiness for ten years, Berg released his first solo album, Summer's Over, in 1997. He has also produced a number of records for other artists. Berg has been published as a writer, releasing...

Gus Edwards (18 August 1879 – 7 November 1945) was an American songwriter and vaudevillian. He also organised his own theatre companies and was a music publisher. Edwards was born Gus Simon in Hohensalza (Inowrocław), German Empire. When he was seven, his family moved to the United States, ending up in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. During the day, he worked in the family cigar store, and in the evenings, he wandered looking for any sort of show business job. He found work as a...

Harry Ruby (October 29 1895 – February 23 1974) was an American songwriter and screenwriter. Born in New York, Ruby failed in his early ambition to become a professional baseball player. Touring the vaudeville circuit as a pianist with the Bootblack Trio and the Messenger Boys Trio he met his long-time partner Bert Kalmar. Together, Ruby and Kalmar formed a successful songwriting team until the latter's death in 1947, and this partnership is portrayed in the 1950 MGM musical Three Little Words...