[Steve_Seattle]

"A lot of the Animals output wasn’t even self written. Especially before the late 60s."

I know that; I am talking about them as performers, not as song writers. Elvis didn't write his own material, either.

[Borges]

McCartney will endure as a songwriter first. And at his best he had one hell of a voice.

[a fool in paradise]

Elvis recorded a lot of songs from the 1920s-40s.

Henry Burr - Are You Lonesome Tonight (1927)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmBg8hHYoSI
Al Jolson added the monologue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvb9XFgzNMY

Bunny Berigan - Blue Moon (1934)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgxDGDAAaBw

Glenn Miller - Blueberry Hill (Billboard No.10 1940)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooYmgwrxnbs