From: piper@gatesofdawn.com   
      
   The old geezer wrote:   
   > When two people are credited with writing a tune (ie. Wilson/Love,   
   Lennon/Mccartney, Zappa/Black) is the first person listed the music composer   
   or the lyricist?  Or is it just the person who did *most* of the songwriting?   
   >   
      
   No rules in a knife fight.   
      
   Early pressings of Please Please Me and From Me to You read McCartney -   
   Lennon on the label.   
      
   Second credit for Why Do Fools Fall in Love is Morris Levy, who wrote   
   NONE of the song.  Not likely he wrote any of Gee (SMiLE) or My Boy   
   Lollipop either.   
      
   When The Ronettes recorded I Can Hear Music, the song was credited to   
   Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector.  When the Beach Boys   
   recorded it, it was credited to Jeff Barry alone (even though there's a   
   demo recording by Phil Spector extant).   
      
   I could never figure how Phil Spector gets a writing credit for There's   
   No Other (Like My Baby) if (as reported) the Crystals were already   
   rehearsing the song the first time Spector heard them sing.   
      
   One of the composers listed for Maybellene is DJ Alan Freed. Chuck Berry   
   said he'd never even met the gentleman.   
      
   In pop music, songwriting crediting is a mysterious process.  Sometimes   
   a name goes on because 'the powers that be' say it does.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)