writing credits

[Stephen Swann]

Jean Lansford writes:
>
> On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Stephen Swann wrote:
>
> >Now, that I wouldn't know.  I was just referring to what I thought was
> >a pretty well known fact around here on BOC-L, namely that Sandy did
> >the lyrics, and the other guys did the music.
>
> Based on Deb's and Al's past comments, Meltzer's lyrics were much more
> "finished" than Pearlman's, and it wasn't uncommon for Albert to clean
> up SP's words while putting them to music.

Yes, that's true, but the point to be made here was that Pearlman/
Meltzer et al received lyrics credits, not music credits.

Steve