Which Artist Would You Bring Back From The Dead To Write One More Song?

Ranker ^ | July 6, 2020 | Mike Jacobs

[21twelve]

I agree on Jim Morrison - he had a lot of living and growing to do and could have put out some great music.

I was going to say Neil Peart of RUSH, but then the best way to end a last album wouldn’t be the last song anymore.

“The Garden” (live)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsBNzf5JlZA

“The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect
So hard to earn, so easily burned.

In the fullness of time
A garden to nurture and protect.”

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#8. Agree with Jim Croce. Very versatile writer and singer.

Buddy Holly would be another great choice.

[Free in Texas]

Bon Scott.

[Mom MD]

Beethoven

[OrioleFan]

Actually I have 3. George Harrison, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison. Handle with care.

[Hieronymus]

Yeah, whoever he is.........

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The author of “Whose gonna fill their shoes”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1VHSRr_k-g

[amihow]

Haggard writes the most poignant country music on a par with Hank Williams senior.

[MRadtke]

I’d be interested to hear what Frank Zappa would have to say (and write into song) about all the crap going on today.

[Third Person]

Nick Drake, Bert Jansch

[Hot Tabasco]

Leonard Cohen

[stylecouncilor]

Good one!

[No.6]

>I was going to say Neil Peart of RUSH, but then the best way to end a last album wouldn’t be the last song anymore.

Copy that ... but shame it took until #121 until someone wrote it.

[Old Yeller]

Barry Manilow. He writes the songs.

[fedupjohn]

Glenn Frey
Ronnie Van Zant
Charlie Daniels

Off the top of my head

[airdalechief]

“George Jones”

I second that emotion!

[freepertoo]

John Lennon, as long as it was songs like on Double Fantasy, not Mind Games or Imagine. John’s politics had changed a lot by the time he died.

[BuffaloJack]

Glen Miller

[Hardastarboard]

I'd like to see a thread that says "If time travel were suddenly possible, who would you go back in time to STOP from writing songs?"

I'll start with Stevie Wonder, throw in Bob (John) Denver, and close with whoever did Chicago's stuff after Terry Kath died.

Oh, and even though they didn't write the original songs, Manfred Mann's Earth Band's rip offs of Springsteen.

[Cloverfarm]

Charles Wesley

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Absolutely.