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An essay praises prewar American pop lyricists (Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Ira Gershwin, et al.)
But rock lyricists earn their reputations with the kind of elliptical poetic impenetrability that looks great reprinted on a 1960 gatefold LP sleeve.
The only difference is that, in Hugo's original writings, the wordy rhymed couplets conjure a feeling of endless verbal ingenuity, advancing majestically at a stately pace--whereas, with the lyricists' committee at Les Mis , everything rushes forward pell-mell, as always in modern Broadway productions, and clichés tread on one another's heels, and you have this feeling of a hidden stage director crying, "Next!
' ’ I have never appreciated the popular tendency to credit songs automatically to performers or recording artists or both, not all of whom are composers or lyricists and not all of whom perform exclusively songs of their own composition.
Herbert Kretzmer, one of the lyricists of Les Misérables , put it to me this way: "It's a question of finding what Johnny Mercer called the sound of the music.