The half-life of a commercially successful song was brief.
"Nigai Namida," which means "Bitter Tears," was an especially successful song for them.
I'm always surprised when good songwriters tend to downplay a lyric's contribution to a successful song.
It was never a terribly successful song, but it's the most requested thing I do.
Berlin continued his writing and within a few years was a successful "song plugger," demonstrating new tunes.
"If you write a lot of songs, it's the same thing as having written one successful song.
His 1991 Curtis Mayfield-styled hit, "It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over," remains his most commercially successful song.
The family moved to Germany in 1963, where Fred, still with the VOA, became a successful song writer, in German and English, under the name Fred Jay.
There, he became co-owner of the Root & Cady music store and embarked on one of the most successful song writing careers of the war era.
Speedo, also the name of his group's most successful song, has led the Cadillacs since his schooldays at P.S. 139 at 140 St. and 7th Ave.
The closer it lands to the center of a hit cluster, the more likely it is to be a successful song.
