Opinion 
STREET SMARTS: A Better Day is Coming…It Had Better(0)
July 1, 2009
…A model emerged in America that allowed Broadway songwriters, movie songwriters, and even the wretches of Tin Pan Alley, the Brill Building, Nashville, L.A., Detroit and elsewhere across this great land, to forge a living hammering together tunes and lyrics…
THE SCHLANSKY FILES: Dead Ahead
The spirit of the missing Jerry is also alive in these songs, and he seems constantly referenced, gone but not forgotten.
Do American Songwriter Readers Watch American Idol?
Do American Songwriter Readers Watch American Idol?
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Fifty to 75 years ago, mainstream American songwriting was an excruciatingly precise profession.
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