Stephen, accepting the care in with which you state Stan Rogers uses in his songwriting, are there there any of his songs that you do not like or feel do not compare with the very best examples?

I think the danger of listing songwriters (in general) without giving particular examples of their work, both the best and not so good, is that this does not recognise the length, say of a writing career.

Even using an example of two songwriters who had been writing for the same length of time, they may not both be as prolific.

Using the monkey, complete works of Shakesphere and type-writer, concept, the one that produced the most songs should have an advantage. But it is the ratio in the output of memorable, to less memorable songs, and the reasons for this, that is more informative than just listing a songwriter's name or just a list of their songs.

I think am just trying to give some hope to the newer or less prolific songwriters amongst us. For whilst I recognise the value of a body of work, is it not possible (with luck), for one's only songwriting effort (or indeed a unknown TRAD writer), to be be as good and inspiring to us as the great individuals listed here?