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Mort Shuman: Writing Songs Is So Easy

Maureen Cleave, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 11 October 1964

FOR SONG-WRITING we British make do with Lennon/McCartney. The Americans are more extravagant; they use Pomus and Shuman, Leiber and Stoller, Goffin and King, David and Bacharach, Barry and Greenwich.

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