Who Actually Wrote City of New Orleans?

Subject: RE: Who Actually Wrote City of New Orleans?
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 30 Jul 05 - 12:38 PM

Not odd at all, Ron. "Old African-American men" didn't scan.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Who Actually Wrote City of New Orleans?
From: Peace
Date: 30 Jul 05 - 06:54 PM

'Of all the Beatles, Ringo did the least songwriting. He did, however, write "Don't Pass Me By" (on The White Album) and "Octopus's Garden" on the album Abbey Road, albeit with quite a bit of help from Harrison. The former continued to show the taste for country music that Ringo had brought into the band on earlier albums, such as on Rubber Soul's co-write "What Goes On."

In addition Ringo contributed a number of lyrical ideas and song titles to Lennon and McCartney, although usually unintentionally. One of the most famous examples of this was the title for the band's first motion picture, A Hard Day's Night. Starr had emerged from the studio after a long day of work and commented to the others that it had been a "hard day's..." - before he finished his sentence, Starr noticed that it was now night time and added "night". Lennon and McCartney liked the twisted phrase enough that they decided to use it as the title for the still untitled movie the band had been filming. Another example is the title to "Tomorrow Never Knows."'

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Subject: RE: Who Actually Wrote City of New Orleans?
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 08:52 AM

John Denver's version of CONO has an added bridge and the line change to 'old grey men'. On the album the song is credited to both Steve and John. Steve was a remarkably self-effacing man without a trace of bitterness. Also, he was relentlessly passionate about music for music's sake.