Rock bands that never/rarely wrote their own songs

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  1. Pseudonym

    Pseudonym Senior Member

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  2. CliffL

    CliffL Forum Resident

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    I came here to post this! Also Three Dog Night.
     
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  3. erikdavid5000

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    Wasn’t he an official member of the band though?
     
  4. erikdavid5000

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    The Beach Boys could have put together an entire baseball team of all the outside co-writers/lyricists.
     
  5. Dandelion1967

    Dandelion1967 My Favourite Parks Are Car Parks

    Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
     
  6. Mr-Beagle

    Mr-Beagle Ah, but the song carries on, so holy

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    You're straying off-topic here :)
     
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  7. Cryptical17

    Cryptical17 Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall o’ Fame as a member of the Grateful Dead
     
  8. MarcS

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    Manfred Mann, The Turtles, The Carpenters
     
  9. bodine

    bodine Senior Member

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    Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels
     
  10. Vangro

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    Rock bands from the late 60s onwards was specified in the original post. Lots of pop groups in the mid-60s were recording songs by outside writers - in fact the majority of them were. The Monkees don't count, for example.
     
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  11. pbuzby

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    Richard cowrote some of the Carpenters hits. Blood, Sweat and Tears is another band that had a lot of covers but some originals.
     
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  12. Glenn Christense

    Glenn Christense Foremost Beatles expert... on my block

    Jeff Beck has way too many groups to list, and a couple of his albums list him as a main songwriter.

    I’d guess that way more than half of the songs, and maybe three quarters of the songs he’s released since the late sixties have been written by others though.
     
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  13. pizzaland

    pizzaland Child of the 1960s

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    If you look at the Stones's early years, it is clear that they saw themselves as a "proper" R&B/blues band. Their goal was to turn on their peers to the blues and soul records that they were inspired by, Jagger is quoted in an early interview stating that "a British composed R&B number just wouldn't cut it". Of course, once Jagger and Richard put their minds to it, things changed - rapidly.
     
  14. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    Three Dog Night
     
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  15. Glenn Christense

    Glenn Christense Foremost Beatles expert... on my block

    Not really. The OP mentions that most bands since the late 60’ s write their own words and music.
    Then he asks us to name which bands from the “rock era” relied solely on cover tunes or outside songwriters .
    Bands in any year of the 60’s qualify for the “rock era”.
     
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  16. Uuan

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    therefore wrong on two counts
     
  17. Uuan

    Uuan Forum Resident

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    No
     
  18. Uuan

    Uuan Forum Resident

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    They were not the only ones

    Esp. see post 8.58 p m
     
  19. Rfreeman

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    I guess it was a hit in the UK. Being American I never considered it a hit. He certainly did not write a significant number of their songs, and almost none I ever care to hear.
     
  20. Uuan

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    I'm Crying
     
  21. Glenn Christense

    Glenn Christense Foremost Beatles expert... on my block

    Read the OP’s post and tell me where I’m mistaken?

    So, Cream in 1966 and Hendrix and The Who in 1966, etc., etc. aren’t part of the “rock era”?

    Were they part of the “folk era”? :D
     
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  22. Glenn Christense

    Glenn Christense Foremost Beatles expert... on my block


    I said “most”, not “all”.
     
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  23. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product

    Certainly most of their early hits, but they got some in after the initial success
     
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  24. Chemguy

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    Sha Na Na

    ...not sure they qualify as a rock band, of course.
     
  25. Uuan

    Uuan Forum Resident

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    No. 1 in Scotland !
     

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