List of songwriter collaborations

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This is a list of notable songwriter teams.

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Rock, soul and pop

CollaboratorsPeriodSongs
Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus [1] of ABBA and post-ABBA (sometimes written with Stig Anderson)1966 [2] –present "Waterloo"
"SOS"
"Mamma Mia"
"Fernando"
"Dancing Queen"
Adam Ant & Marco Pirroni [3] 1980–present"Kings of the Wild Frontier"
"Dog Eat Dog"
"Antmusic"
"Stand and Deliver"
"Prince Charming"
"Ant Rap"
"Goody Two Shoes"
"Friend or Foe"
"Desperate But Not Serious"
Ashford & Simpson [4] 1964–2011"Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
"You're All I Need to Get By"
"Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing"
"Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)"
Burt Bacharach (music) and Hal David (lyrics) [4] 1957–1973"Alfie"
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"
"This Guy's in Love with You"
"(They Long to Be) Close to You"
"Walk On By"
"The Look of Love"
"One Less Bell to Answer"
"Do You Know the Way to San Jose"
Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings [5] [6] of The Guess Who "These Eyes"
"No Time"
"American Woman" (with Garry Peterson and Jim Kale)
"No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature"
Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich [7] 1962–late 1960s"Da Doo Ron Ron" (with Phil Spector)
"Be My Baby" (with Spector)
"Leader of the Pack" (with Shadow Morton)
"Do Wah Diddy Diddy"
"Chapel of Love" (with Spector)
"River Deep, Mountain High" (with Spector)
Walter Becker and Donald Fagen [8] of Steely Dan 1971–2017"Do It Again"
"Rikki Don't Lose That Number"
"Reelin' In the Years"
"Peg"
"Hey Nineteen"
Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, the Bee Gees (and also for other artists) [9] "Massachusetts"
"I've Gotta Get a Message to You"
"How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"
"Jive Talkin'"
"How Deep Is Your Love"
"Night Fever"
"Stayin' Alive"
"Too Much Heaven"
"Tragedy"
"Islands in the Stream"
Alan and Marilyn Bergman [10] [11] 1956–2022"The Windmills of Your Mind" (with Michel Legrand)
"The Way We Were" (with Marvin Hamlisch)
"It Might Be You" (with Dave Grusin)
"In the Heat of the Night" (with Quincy Jones)
"All His Children" (with Henry Mancini)
Boyce and Hart [12] "Come a Little Bit Closer" (with Wes Farrell)
"(Theme From) The Monkees"
"Last Train to Clarksville"
"I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight"
Dwiki Dharmawan and Ags. Arya Dipayana [13] 1992-2002"Dengan Menyebut Nama Allah"
Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence of INXS 1977–1997"Original Sin"
"What You Need"
"Need You Tonight"
"New Sensation"
"Never Tear Us Apart"
Felice and Boudleaux Bryant [14] "Bye Bye Love"
"Wake Up, Little Susie"
"Rocky Top"
Gamble and Huff [15] early 1960s–?"If You Don't Know Me by Now"
"Love Train"
"Me and Mrs. Jones" (with Cary Gilbert)
"TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)"
David Gilmour and Roger Waters of Pink Floyd [16] 1968–1979"Comfortably Numb"
"Wish You Were Here"
"Run Like Hell"
"Dogs"
Gerry Goffin and Carole King [4] "Will You Love Me Tomorrow"
"The Loco-Motion"
"One Fine Day"
"Up on the Roof"
"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman"
Isaac Hayes and David Porter [17] [18] "Hold On, I'm Comin'"
"When Something Is Wrong with My Baby"
"Soul Man"
"I Thank You"
James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich of Metallica 1981–present"Seek & Destroy"
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" (with Cliff Burton)
"Master of Puppets" (with Cliff Burton and Kirk Hammett)
"One"
"Enter Sandman" (with Kirk Hammett)
"Sad but True"
"Nothing Else Matters"
"Until It Sleeps"
"Hero of the Day"
"The Memory Remains"
"Some Kind of Monster" (with Kirk Hammett and Bob Rock)
"The Day That Never Comes" (with Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo)
Holland–Dozier–Holland [19]
Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland (music)
Eddie Holland (lyrics)
1960s–1970s"(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave"
"Can I Get a Witness"
"Where Did Our Love Go"
"Baby Love"
"How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)"
"Stop! In the Name of Love"
"I Hear a Symphony"
"You Can't Hurry Love"
James Horner (music) and Will Jennings (lyrics)1988–2001"If We Hold on Together"
"Dreams to Dream"
"My Heart Will Go On"
"Where Are You, Christmas?" (with Mariah Carey)
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards [4] [20] of The Rolling Stones
Mick Jagger
Keith Richards
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
"Paint It, Black"
"Honky Tonk Women"
Elton John (music) and Bernie Taupin (lyrics) [4] "Crocodile Rock"
"Daniel"
"Bennie and the Jets"
"Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"
"Don't Go Breaking My Heart"
"Something About the Way You Look Tonight"/"Candle in the Wind 1997"
Kalmar and Ruby [21]
Bert Kalmar (lyrics)
Harry Ruby (music)
1920–1947"Who's Sorry Now?"
"I Wanna Be Loved by You"
"Three Little Words"
Lennon–McCartney [4] [22] of The Beatles
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
1957–1969
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller [4] [23]
Jerry Leiber (lyrics)
Mike Stoller (music)
1950–?"Hound Dog"
"Jailhouse Rock"
"Kansas City"
"Stand By Me" (with Ben E. King)
"On Broadway" (with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil)
Livingston & Evans [24] [25]
Jay Livingston (music)
Ray Evans (lyrics)
"Silver Bells"
"Buttons and Bows"
"Mona Lisa"
"Que Sera, Sera"
"Tammy"
Barry Mann (music) and Cynthia Weil (lyrics) [26] [27] 1960–?"On Broadway" (with Leiber and Stoller)
"We Gotta Get Out of This Place"
"(You're My) Soul and Inspiration"
"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"
"Somewhere Out There" (with James Horner)
Morrissey (lyrics) and Johnny Marr (music) [28] of The Smiths 1983–1987"How Soon Is Now?"
"This Charming Man"
"Bigmouth Strikes Again"
"There Is a Light That Never Goes Out"
Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman [29] "Save the Last Dance for Me"
"This Magic Moment"
"A Teenager in Love"
"Suspicion"
"Viva Las Vegas"
Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards [30] of Chic early 1970s–1983"Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" (with Kenny Lehman)
"Le Freak"
"Good Times"
"We Are Family"
Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson of Supertramp [31] 1970–1983"Babaji"
"Bloody Well Right"
"Breakfast in America"
"Dreamer"
"Give a Little Bit"
"Goodbye Stranger"
"It's Raining Again"
"My Kind of Lady"
"Take the Long Way Home"
"The Logical Song"
Sherman Brothers [32] [33]
Robert B. Sherman
Richard M. Sherman
"It's a Small World (After All)"
"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
"Chim Chim Cher-ee"
"A Spoonful of Sugar"
"Feed the Birds"
"Let's Go Fly a Kite"
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
"I Wanna Be Like You" (from The Jungle Book )
"The Aristocats"
"You're Sixteen"
Stock Aitken Waterman [34]
Mike Stock
Matt Aitken
Pete Waterman
1984–1991"Respectable" (Mel and Kim)
"Never Gonna Give You Up"
"I Should Be So Lucky"
"Together Forever"
"Especially for You"
"This Time I Know It's for Real" (with Donna Summer)
"Too Many Broken Hearts"
"Hand on Your Heart"
"You'll Never Stop Me Loving You"
Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield [35] [36] "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
"War"
"Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)"
"Smiling Faces Sometimes"
"Papa Was a Rollin' Stone"
Barry Hay and George Kooymans of Golden Earring 1967–2021"Radar Love"
"When the Lady Smiles"
Joe Strummer and Mick Jones [37] [38] of The Clash "London Calling"
"Rock the Casbah"
Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe [39] [40] [41] of Pet Shop Boys 1981–present"West End Girls"
"It's a Sin"
"What Have I Done to Deserve This?" (with Allee Willis)
Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett 1948–1970"Red Roses for a Blue Lady"
"Suzy Snowflake"
"The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane"
"Twenty Tiny Fingers"
"Nuttin' for Christmas"
"Kewpie Doll"
"Travellin' Light"
"G.I. Blues"
"The Young Ones"
"Puppet on a String"
John Wetton and Geoff Downes of Asia 1981–2017"Heat of the Moment"
"Only Time Will Tell"
"Don't Cry"
"Go"
Martin Gore (lyrics) and Alan Wilder (music) of Depeche Mode 1982–1995"Enjoy the Silence"
"Shake the Disease"
"Personal Jesus"
"People Are People"
Beyoncé and Jay-Z of The Carters 2003-present"Crazy in Love"
"Lose My Breath"
"Déjà Vu"
"Drunk in Love"
"Shining"
"Apeshit"
"Black Parade"
"Alien Superstar"

Jazz

CollaboratorsPeriodSongs
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn [42] [43] [44]
George (music) and Ira Gershwin (lyrics) [45] [46] "The Man I Love"
"I Got Rhythm"
"'S Wonderful"
Rodgers and Hart [44]
Richard Rodgers (music)
Lorenz Hart (lyrics)
1919–1943
Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays 1977-2005

Musicals

CollaboratorsPeriodMusicals
Rodgers and Hart
Richard Rodgers (music)
Lorenz Hart (lyrics)
1919–1943 Fly with Me
Poor Little Ritz Girl (with Sigmund Romberg and Alex Gerber)
The Garrick Gaieties
Dearest Enemy
The Girl Friend
Betsy
Peggy-Ann
The Fifth Avenue Follies
Lido Lady
The Garrick Gaieties
A Connecticut Yankee
One Dam Thing After Another
Present Arms
Chee-Chee
She's My Baby
Heads Up!
Spring Is Here
Ever Green
Simple Simon
America's Sweetheart
Love Me Tonight
The Phantom President
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Mississippi
Jumbo
On Your Toes
The Show Is On
Babes in Arms
I'd Rather Be Right
The Boys from Syracuse
I Married an Angel
Too Many Girls
Higher and Higher
Pal Joey
Two Weeks with Pay
By Jupiter
A Connecticut Yankee
Lerner and Loewe
Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics)
Frederick Loewe (music)
1942–1960;

1970–1972

Life of the Party
What's Up?
The Day Before Spring
Brigadoon
Paint Your Wagon
My Fair Lady
Gigi
Camelot
The Little Prince
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Richard Rodgers (music)
Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics)
1943–1960 Oklahoma!
Carousel
State Fair
Allegro
South Pacific
The King and I
Me and Juliet
Pipe Dream
Cinderella
Flower Drum Song
The Sound of Music
A Grand Night for Singing
Betty Comden and Adolph Green [47] [48] 1944–2002 On the Town (with Leonard Bernstein)
Billion Dollar Baby (with Morton Gould)
Two on the Aisle (with Jule Styne)
Wonderful Town (with Leonard Bernstein)
Peter Pan (with Jule Styne, Mark Charlap Trude Rittmann, and Carolyn Leigh)
Bells Are Ringing (with Jule Styne)
Say, Darling (with Jule Styne)
Bells Are Ringing (with Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne, André Previn, Saul Chaplin, Roger Edens and Cy Coleman)
Do Re Mi (with Jule Styne)
Subways Are for Sleeping (with Jule Styne)
Fade Out – Fade In (with Jule Styne)
Hallelujah, Baby! (with Jule Styne)
Lorelei (with Jule Styne and Leo Robin)
On the Twentieth Century (with Cy Coleman)
A Doll's Life (with Larry Grossman)
The Will Rogers Follies (with Larry Grossman)
Kander and Ebb [49] [50]
John Kander (music)
Fred Ebb (lyrics)
1965–2010 Flora, The Red Menace
Cabaret
Go Fly a Kite
The Happy Time
Zorba
70, Girls, 70
Funny Lady
Chicago
2 by 5
New York, New York
The Act
Woman of the Year
The Rink
And The World Goes 'Round
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Steel Pier
Fosse
All About Us
Liza's Back
Curtains
The Scottsboro Boys
The Visit
Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) and Tim Rice (lyrics) [51] [52] 1965–1976 The Likes of Us
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Jesus Christ Superstar
Evita
Cricket
The Wizard of Oz (with Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg)
Sherlock Holmes and The 12 Days of Christmas
Alan Menken (music) and Howard Ashman (lyrics)1979–1991 Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Little Shop of Horrors
The Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
Aladdin (with Tim Rice)
George Stiles (music) and Anthony Drewe (lyrics)1984–presentTutankhamun
Just So
Honk!
Peter Pan: A Musical Adventure
Mary Poppins (with Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman)
Betty Blue Eyes
Soho Cinders
Three Little Pigs
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Travels with My Aunt
Half a Sixpence (with David Heneker)
The Wind in the Willows
Becoming Nancy (with Terry Ronald and Elliot Davis)
Identical
Stephen Flaherty (music) and Lynn Ahrens (lyrics)1988–present Lucky Stiff
Once on This Island
My Favorite Year
Ragtime
Anastasia
Seussical
A Man of No Importance
The Glorious Ones
Rocky the Musical
Little Dancer
Knoxville
Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman 2002–present Hairspray
Catch Me If You Can
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (with Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse)
Mary Poppins Returns
Some Like It Hot
Smash
Pasek and Paul
Benj Pasek
Justin Paul
2005–present Edges
James and the Giant Peach
Dogfight
A Christmas Story: The Musical
Dear Evan Hansen
La La Land (with Justin Hurwitz)
The Greatest Showman
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
Spirited
Matthew Sklar (music) and Chad Beguelin (lyrics)2006–present The Wedding Singer
Elf
The Prom
Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez Finding Nemo – The Musical
Winnie the Pooh
Frozen
Coco (with Germaine Franco and Adrian Molina)
Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary 2008– present Jet Set Go!
The Great British Soap Opera
Red Riding Hood
The Snow Gorilla
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
Prodigy
Treasure Island
Chicken Little
Friends! The Musical Parody
The Great British Bake Off Musical
Barlow and Bear
Abigail Barlow
Emily Bear
2021-present The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical
Mexican Pizza: The Musical
Moana 2 (with Mark Mancina and Opetaia Foaʻi)

Opera

CollaboratorsPeriodOperas
Gilbert and Sullivan
W. S. Gilbert (lyrics)
Arthur Sullivan (music)
1871–1896 Thespis
Trial by Jury
H.M.S. Pinafore
The Sorcerer
The Pirates of Penzance
Iolanthe
Patience
Princess Ida
The Mikado
Ruddigore
The Yeomen of the Guard
The Gondoliers
Utopia, Limited
The Grand Duke

Duos

Trios

Quartets

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