WSJ.com: Song lyricists may be even less well known than screenwriters, of whom nobody not in the business of making or criticizing movies can name more than five. Most people can name precisely five song lyricists: Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein II, Alan Lerner and Howard Dietz. (Irving Berlin and Cole Porter, of course, wrote the lyrics for their own songs.) The reason these five names are well known is that all are securely linked to composers: Ira to George Gershwin, Hart and Hammerstein to Richard Rodgers, Lerner to Frederick Loewe, and Howard Dietz to Arthur Schwartz.
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