writing credits

Joseph Brooks jbrooks at CONNECTNET.COM
Wed Feb 21 20:55:56 EST 1996


At 07:15 PM 2/21/96 +0000, you wrote:
>> This varies from band to band.  Take the Doors.  All their early
>> material was credited as being written by the whole band, while
>> obviously Morrison was the key talent there.
>
>        Not necessarily true.  "Light My Fire" was Krieger, words and music,
>except the keyboard intro which was written by, uh, the keyboard player,
>whatever his name was (M-something).

Morrison, interesting lyricist that he was, didn't write a lick of music for
the doors, that was all (or almost all) Manzaric (sp?).
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