writing credits

[Jean Lansford]

On Fri, 23 Feb 1996, Stephen Swann wrote:

>Jean Lansford writes:
>
>> Based on Deb's and Al's past comments, Meltzer's lyrics were much more
>> "finished" than Pearlman's, and it wasn't uncommon for Albert to clean
>> up SP's words while putting them to music.
>
>Yes, that's true, but the point to be made here was that Pearlman/
>Meltzer et al received lyrics credits, not music credits.

And my point was that SP and RM wouldn't have been alone in the lyric
credit listing, and to divide them up would look more like
"A. Bouchard/S. Pearlman & A. Bouchard".

(Mere semantics, red.)


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