Some wrote lyrics. Some wrote melodies. Others did both. Here are some of our favorite song creators. These had several hits. You can find many of their songs by entering their name in the search box.
Maurice Abrahams
Harold Adamson
Richard Adler
Milton Ager
Fred E. Ahlert
Harry Akst
Robert Allen
Paul Anka
Harold Arlen
Nat D. Ayer
Burt Bacharach
Abel Baer
Ernest R. Ball
Irving Berlin
Rube Bloom
Henry M. Blossom
Jerry Bock
David Braham
Lew Brown
Nacio Herb Brown
Alfred Bryan
Vincent P. Bryan
Johnny Burke
Ralph Butler
James Campbell
Hoagy Carmichael
Michael Carr
Harry Carroll
Ivan Caryll
Signey Clare
Grant Clarke
Will D. Cobb
George M. Cohan
Cy Coleman
Betty Comden
Reginald Connelly
Tommie Connor
Con Conrad
Fred J. Coots
Sam Coslow
Noel Coward
Desmond Cox
Henry Creamer
Bob Crewe
Hal David
Mack David
Benny Davis
John Denver
Buddy G. DeSylva
Neil Diamond
Howard Dietz
Mort Dixon
Walter Donaldson
Lamont Dozier
Paul Dresser
Jack Drislane
Al Dubin
Vernon Duke
Bob Dylan
Fred Ebb
Gus Edwards
Raymond B. Egan
Duke Ellington
Raymond B. Evans
Tolchard Evans
Sammy Fain
Dorothy Fields
Fred Fisher
Stephen C. Foster
Arthur Freed
Cliff Friend
Rudolf Friml
Noel Gay
George Gershwin
Ira Gershwin
Joseph Gilbert
L. Wolfe Gilbert
Ray Gilbert
Haven Gillespie
Norman Gimbel
Ray E. Goetz
Gerry Goffin
Al Goodhart
Joe Goodwin
Mack Gordon
Archie Gottler
Bert Grant
Adolph Green
Bud Green
John W. Green
Clifford Grey
Will Grosz
Marvin Hamlisch
Oscar Hammerstein II
Lou Handman
W. C. Handy
Otto Harbach
E. Y. Harburg
Edward Harrigan
Charles K. Harris
Lorenz Hart
William S. Hays
Fred J. Helf
Ray Henderson
Victor Herbert
Jerry Herman
Edward Heyman
Bob Hilliard
Louis A. Hirsch
Al Hoffman
Brian Holland
Eddie Holland
Joseph E. Howard
Richard Howard
Leon Huff
Herbert Ingraham
William Jerome
George Jessel
Billy Joel
Elton John
Howard E. Johnson
Rosamond J. Johnson
Arthur Johnston
Al Jolson
Isham Jones
Irving Kahal
Gus Kahn
Emmerich Kalman
Bert Kalmar
John Kander
James Kendis
Jimmy Kennedy
Jerome Kern
Carole King
Robert A. King
Ted Koehler
Alex C. Kramer
Arthur J. Lamb
Burton Lane
Johnny Lange
Harry Landern
Jack Lawrence
J. Turner Layton
Ernesto Lecuona
Bert Lee
Michel Legrand
Franz Lehar
Jerry Leiber
Carolyn Leigh
Fred W. Leigh
John Lennon
Alan Jay Lerner
Edgar Leslie
Al Lewis
Samuel M. Lewis
Harry Link
Jay Livingston
Jerry Livingston
Frank Loesser
Frederick Loewe
Carmen Lombardo
Ballard MacDonald
Joseph McCarthy
Paul McCartney
Junie McCree
Jimmie McHugh
Tony Macaulay
Cecil Mack
Edward Madden
Herb Magidson
Henry Mancini
Barry Mann
Dick Manning
Edward B. Marks
Hugh Martin
Murray Mencher
Johnny Mercer
Bob Merrill
George W. Meyer
Joseph Meyer
Sonny Miller
A. J. Mills
Irving Mills
Kerry Mills
Sidney D. Mitchell
James V. Monaco
Lionel Monckton
Thomas Moore
Neil Moret
Theodore F. Morse
Lewis F. Muir
Charles Newman
Horatio Nicholls
Ivor Novello
Mitchell Parish
Ross Parker
Harry Parr-Davies
Harry Pease
Don Pelosi
Al Piantadosi
Lew Pollack
Cole Porter
Ralph Rainger
Don Raye
Andy Razaf
Harry Revel
Leo Robin
Richard Rodgers
Sigmund Romberg
Harold J. Rome
George Frederick Root
Billy Rose
Monroe H. Rosenfeld
Adrian Ross
Jerry Ross
Harry Ruby
Arthur Schwartz
Jean Schwartz
Neil Sedaka
Al Sherman
Carl Sigman
Abner Silver
Paul Simon
Sunny Skylar
Chris Smith
Harry B. Smith
Ted Snyder
Alfred Solman
Stephen Sondheim
John Phillip Sousa
Harold Spina
Sam H. Stept
Andrew B. Sterling
Al Stillman
Jule Styne
Arthur Sullivan
Bernie Taupin
Harry Tierney
Dimitri Tiomkin
Charles Tobias
William Tracey
Roy Turk
Egbert Van Alstyne
Jimmy Van Heusen
Albert Von Tilzer
Harry Von Tilzer
Raymond Wallace
Thomas “Fats” Waller
Harry Warren
Ned Washington
Jim Webb
Paul Francis Webster
Kurt Weill
George David Weiss
Pete Wendling
Percy Wenrich
R. P. Weston
Richard A. Whiting
Clarence Williams
Hank Williams
Harry H. Williams
John Williams
Spencer Williams
Meredith Willson
P. G. Wodehouse
Stevie Wonder
Harry M. Woods
Henry Clay Work
Robert B. Wright
Allie Wrubel
Jack Yellen
Vincent Youmans
Joe Young
Rida Johnson Young
Victor Young
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