Song Poem

Song poem usually refers to song lyrics that have been set to music for a fee. This practice, which has long been disparaged in the music industry, was also known as song sharking and was conducted by several businesses throughout the 20th century in North America.

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Famous quotes containing the words song and/or poem:

    “A song is anything that can walk by itself.”
    —Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)

    “A poem ... begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.... It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)