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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Old Time Rock and Roll is Bob Seger not Bruce Springsteen.
"Brother can you spare a dime" was written by Jay Gorney.
Let's please give correct credit if we are talking songwriters. 
Sorry I am picky when it comes to songs.
Though you are so right about the blues.
And whether we own the songs or not is irrelevant. I can't stand U2 personally but I still know the song. |
Sorry, that means I have one song in my collection by Bob Seger and none by Bruce Springsteen.
What does it mattter who wrote "Brother Can You Spare a Dime"; Rudy Vallee was the one whose recording of it was popular. I doubt if very many people alive today ever heard of Jay Gorney.
There were many blues songs recorded in the late 1920's and in the 1930's that could be classified as protest songs. Blues are usually about sadness and depression and often about oppression and hard times.
I know of many songs by U2 and many other groups that I may have heard or heard of but I never liked them so never really listened to them. But I fail to see how song lyrics could be classed as literature - whether you like them or not.