Example sentences for: songwriters

How can you use “songwriters” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Rhythm 'n' blues (the music of the black South) and other manifestations of the black "sound," like urban doo-wop, came to the attention of whites--like the record mogul Ahmet Ertegun in Washington, the songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (who wrote "Hound Dog" and "Kansas City") in Los Angeles, DJ Alan Freed in Cleveland, and Elvis Presley in Memphis, who was totally immersed in black music almost by accident.

  • In rock 'n' roll's first decade, songwriters like Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly established its song forms and subject matter: the lives, loves, and modest rebellions of newly enfranchised teens.

  • In the '60s, some boosters said that folk-rock had taken pop away from late '50s commercial songwriters ( Carole King , Neil Diamond, Phil Spector, Neil Sedaka, et al.)

  • For most songwriters after "After The Ball," for everyone from Irving Berlin to Carole King, lyric-writing was an exercise in compression.

  • Catherine Irwin and Janet Beveridge Bean are the singers and songwriters of Freakwater, whose recent album, Old Paint (Thrill Jockey), is "alternative" by process of elimination, not by design.


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