Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 07, 2018

I’ve never heard of Fountains Of Wayne, but I still think it’s safe to say that they don’t rank with Lennon, McCartney, Elton or Bernie.

George & Ira Gershwin.

Talkin’ shop with Frazz.

Streisand & Gibb

Cole Porter was one of the few songwriters of his era who wrote both music and lyrics. Another was his friend Irving Berlin. The two men shared a private joke. Whenever a songwriting team – such as Ira and George Gershwin, Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers, or Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern — had a hit, Porter and Berlin would say to each other, “To think it took two people to write one song!”

Rodgers and Hammerstein. I’m from the rock era, too, but popular music didn’t start with Elvis.

And speaking of Elvis: Leiber and Stoller.

Well after reading the above comments we swept through half the history of music. Well at least the music worth listening to

Willie Nelson and anyone.

Nah. Simon and Garfunkel. Everybody else are just pikers.

Interesting pairs remembered by the above. Could be the subject of a university course. It would not surprise if it were not the thesis for a doctorate.

Brooker and Reid. (Procol Harum)

Leiber & Stoller

Proctor and Bergman…

King and Goffin.

Another vote for Lennon/McCartney. Another vote for Simon/Garfunkle. Another vote for George/Ira.

Not quite a team, but I do like Partridge and Moulding.

Jagger & Richards

Sherman brothers

did mallett buy fountain of wayne’s music catalog?

Leiber and Stroller.

Hunter and Garcia

See the NYT crossword for 11/6 40 across for a “Fountain” treat.

Facts are so 20th century.

Pasek and Paul—up-and-comers.

The output wasn’t large, but what there was was great: Dietz & Schwartz or Sissle & Blake.

Rimsky and Korsakov!

Three little words! Ruby and Kalmar.

Frazz15 hrs ·

We had an election in the United States yesterday, in case you missed it. As I write this, I haven’t yet checked the results, but I can make one prediction about the results with absolute certainty: They aren’t going to shut anybody up.

Let’s take a break. Since a good deal of the problem is that we’ve blurred the line between politics and show business at a time in history when we were already taking show business more seriously than politics, let’s NOT take a step back. Let’s take a step all the way forward and go right past politics and all the way into show business and argue about that. After all, as Winston Churchill said, if you’re going through hell, keep going.

Churchill didn’t say that.

Yes, he did.

No, he didn’t.

Yes, he did.

No, he …

Lieber and Stoller, King and Goffin

Flanders and Swann!

Rogers and Hart & Rogers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Lowe….

Flansburgh and Linnell!