Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A song maker; a poet.
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- noun A
writer ofsongs .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Memory Tapes is the province of Dayve Hawk, a 30-year-old songsmith who bubbled up from rural New Jersey a couple years ago with a sound that mixes melodies for the ages with intimations of murky weirdness.
Continental, Experimental Andy Battaglia 2011
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Think about The Beach Boys and their crazed father Murry Wilson, that manic drive of his and the trauma he inflicted particularly on his most talented son, pop songsmith extraordinaire Brian Wilson.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Think about The Beach Boys and their crazed father Murry Wilson, that manic drive of his and the trauma he inflicted particularly on his most talented son, pop songsmith extraordinaire Brian Wilson.
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By his early 20s, the skinny lad with long brown hair became a worldwide sensation --- the master songsmith behind a little British band known as The Beatles.
Strawberry Fields Forever T. Rees Shapiro 2010
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Recorded between 1962 and 1964, they offer a portrait of the young Dylan as prolific songsmith, spraying out numbers that changed pop history such as "The Times They Are a-Changin '", alongside passing cold war satires such as "Talkin 'John Birch Paranoid Blues", all delivered in Bob's biting, mid-Western burr.
Bob Dylan: The Witmark Demos – review Neil Spencer 2010
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Memory Tapes is the province of Dayve Hawk, a 30-year-old songsmith who bubbled up from rural New Jersey a couple years ago with a sound that mixes melodies for the ages with intimations of murky weirdness.
Continental, Experimental Andy Battaglia 2011
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Rich Cronin, the bleach-tipped "Summer Girls" songsmith from the late 1990s boy band "LFO," has died.
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Quincy Jones took interest in the young songsmith and published some of his titles.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 142 2010
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We're not sure if Mehran is, like Rosenberg/Pink, a Zappa fan, but there is a sense of a playful, even transgressive, mind at work behind the heavenly hooks and catchy choruses, as though Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle had a sideline as a Brill Building songsmith it also reminds you that Lou Reed briefly worked at Pickwick.
Outer Limits Recordings (No 904) Paul Lester 2010
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If you missed Ted Leo's show in Baltimore last night, Midnight Sun has a good interview with the punk rock songsmith.
Remembering John Lennon; Willie Nelson charged with a misdemeanor; T.I. is blogging from jail Chris Richards 2010
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