Sunday, December 13, 2020

Prolific Songwriters

These songwriters have been very busy and prolific in using their creative gifts. I need to buckle down.

HYMN WRITERS
Isaac Watts 600 hymns 
Fanny Crosby over 2500 hymns
Charles Wesley 6,500 hymns 
Horatius Bonar wrote over 600 hymns 
William Howard Doane 2000 melodies for hymns
Daniel Brink Towner over 2000 hymns melodies

SECULAR WRITERS
Dolly Parton, who has written 3,546 songs (and counting)
Irving Berlin more than 1,500 songs, 20 Broadway shows.
Woodie Guthrie 25,000 songs [not a typing error]
Paul McCartney over 500 songs and cowrites
Rodgers and Hammerstein 900 songs and 43 musicals
Bernie Taupin well over 600 songs
Bob Dylan well over 500 songs

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