I’ve kept quiet for a few months now about how the coaches
on The Voice – and their team members – sloppily and incorrectly attribute a
song’s ‘ownership’ to the artists best known for performing it. (You can take a look at the blog posts of May
10 and June 14 to read my earlier rants on this
topic.)
Once more, I have to say that Blake Shelton is the most
shocking in this regard, being a Nashville artist. Nashville has long been known for placing songwriters
and good songwriting at the center of its music business, so his crediting only
Kelly Clarkson and Jason Aldean, the artists who had the hit on the song Don’t You Wanna Stay, was a bit shocking
to me. Yes, Clarkson and Aldean
performed it, and really well, but it was written
by Andy Gibson, Paul Jenkins, and Jason Sellers.
But what got me off my duff to compile the lists below was
the reference to I Wish It Would Rain
as only ‘by The Temptations’ and a later reference to contestant Preston Pohl’s
tone as being so close to David Ruffin.
The song was written by Roger Penzabene, a Motown staff writer, and Motown’s
songwriting team of Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield. Lots of folks acknowledge
Holland-Dozier-Holland as Motown songwriters, but there were others.
The earlier posts I referred to mention the problem that
songwriters have today, given that downloaded music is the dominant sales
point: there’s no consistent place for songwriters’ credits to appear. Some talented folks aren’t getting the
recognition they deserve. My suggestion
was for The Voice to add a “Written by” line to the Chiron of the song title that
appears at the beginning of a contestant’s performance. That would be a big step forward in
acknowledging that these writers are where the music begins.
So, here are the credits for the last two rounds of The
Voice, the most recent first. I’ve
organized it by song title, then by the songwriters, and then indicated who
performed it on The Voice. Apologies in
advance for any typos in the names.
Knockout Rounds
|
Song
|
Songwriters
|
Performed on The Voice by
|
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Already Gone
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Kelly Clarkson, Ryan Tedder
|
Grey
|
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Cosmic Love
|
Florence Welch and Isabella Summers
|
Mathew Schuler
|
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Don’t Know Why
|
Jesse Harris
|
Stephanie Ann Johnson
|
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Genie in a Bottle
|
David Frank, Steve Kipner, Pamela Sheyne
|
Nic Hawke
|
|
Hard to Handle
|
Otis Redding, Al Bell, Allen Jones
|
Ray Boudreaux
|
|
I’ll Be
|
Edwin McCain
|
Austin Jenckes
|
|
Last Name
|
Luke Laird, Hillary Lindsey, Carrie Underwood
|
Shelbie Z
|
|
Let Her Go
|
Mike Rosenberg
|
Cole Vosbury
|
|
Living for the City
|
Stevie Wonder
|
Josh Logan
|
|
Mamma Knows Best
|
Jessica Cornish, Ashton Thomas
|
Amber Nicole
|
|
More Than a Feeling
|
Tom Scholz
|
James Wolpert
|
|
No One
|
Alicia Keys, Kerry Brothers, Jr., George M. Harry
|
Tamara Chaunice
|
|
No Woman, No Cry
|
Vincent Ford (credited to)
|
Preston Pohl
|
|
Stompa
|
Serena Ryder, Jerrod Bettis
|
Jacquie Lee
|
|
Stronger
|
Jörgen Elofsson, David Gamson, Greg Kurstin, Ali Tamposi
|
Tessanne Chin
|
|
The Way I Am
|
Ingrid Michaelson
|
Caroline Pennell
|
|
We Can Work It Out
|
John Lennon, Paul McCartney
|
Jonny Gray
|
|
When I Was Your Man
|
Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence, Moe Faisal, Ari Levine, Andrew
Wyatt
|
Will Champlin
|
|
You Oughta Know
|
Alanis Morissette, Glen Ballard
|
Kat Robichaud
|
|
You’re No Good
|
lint Ballard, Jr.
|
Olivia Henken
|
Battle Rounds
|
Song
|
Songwriters
|
Performed on The Voice by
|
|
As Long as You Love Me
|
Sean Anderson, Justin Bieber
|
Caroline Pennell
|
|
Counting Stars
|
Ryan Tedder
|
James Irwin
|
|
Domino
|
Jessica Cornish, Lukasz Gottwalk, Claude Kelly, Max
Martin, Henry Walter
|
Grey
|
|
Don’t You Wanna Stay
|
Andy Gibson, Paul Jenkins, Jason Sellers
|
Shelbie Z
|
|
Done
|
Neil Perry, Reid Perry, John Davidson, Jacob Bryant
|
Olivia Henken
|
|
Harder to Breathe
|
Adam Levine, Jesse Carmichael
|
Josh Logan
|
|
House of the Rising Sun
|
Traditional
|
Jacquie Lee
|
|
I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing
|
Diane Warren
|
Kat Robichaud
|
|
I Wish It Would Rain
|
Roger Penzabene, Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield
|
Preston Pohl
|
|
Listen
|
Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler, Anne Preven, Beyoncé Knowles
|
Amber Nicole
|
|
My Song Know What You Did in the Dark
|
Patrick Stump, Pete Wentz, Joe Trohman, Andy Hurley, Butch
Walker, and John Hill
|
Mathew Schuler
|
|
Next to Me
|
Emeli Sande, Hugo Chegwin, Harry Craze, Anup Paul
|
Tessanne Chin
|
|
Not Ready to Make Nice
|
Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Emily Robison, Dan Wilson
|
Destinee Quinn
|
|
Radioactive
|
Ben McKee, Dan Platzman, Dan Reynolds, Wayne Sermon,
Alexander Grant, Josh Mosser
|
James Wolpert
|
|
Refugee
|
Mike Campbell and Tom Petty
|
Jonny Gray
|
|
Some Kind of Wonderful
|
Gerry Goffin and Carol King
|
Ray Boudreaux
|
|
The Best I’ve Ever Had
|
Gavin DeGraw and Martin Johnson
|
George Horga Jr.
|
|
To Love Somebody
|
Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb
|
Austin Jenckes
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