Talk:Great American Songbook

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'Autumn Leaves'[edit]

Definitely a core jazz standard, but we'll eliminate because French composers originally --Johnny Mercer, adding the English lyrics in a later version?Dogru144 (talk) 00:20, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Um, so what? "Les Feuilles Mort" is a French song. "Autumn Leaves" is an American song with a French melody, or a French song with American lyrics, but regardless, hyphenates are American. But then, there are no standards for this stupid article, just "some editor thinks a song qualifies for it." --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 15:49, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I concede that you're right. "Autumn Leaves" is a classic standard. So, good point.Dogru144 (talk) 19:49, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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In the list of songs, the credits for "Can't We Be Friends" is incorrect. It should list Kay Swift as COMPOSER and Paul James as LYRICIST, not vice versa. Refer to the Wikipedia page for the song for confirmation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%27t_We_Be_Friends%3F Jedscott (talk) 14:32, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done --Ferien (talk) 15:54, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]