{"id":447,"date":"2013-04-25T16:06:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T16:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whiskyrebellion.com\/?p=447"},"modified":"2013-04-25T16:06:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T16:06:24","slug":"songwriting-credits-for-nprs-jittery-jams-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Songwriting credits for NPRMusic’s Jittery Jams list"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"coffeesong\"<\/a>NPR’s Jittery Jams list of songs for coffee lovers<\/a>\u00a0reminded me of how much I love the lyrics to the Coffee Song. \u00a0Below are some facts about the songwriters on NPR’s list. (All links are ad-free to the best of my ability.)<\/p>\n

Mississippi John Hurt wrote “Coffee Blues<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Bob Hilliard & Dick Miles wrote “The Coffee Song<\/a>“. Other notable Hilliard lyrics include “I’m Late<\/a>” for Walt Disney’s Alice In Wonderland, “Our Day Will \u00a0Come<\/a>” most famously recorded by Ruby & The Romantics, and “In The Wee Small Hours<\/a>” also recorded by Frank Sinatra. Miles collaborated with Hilliard on several other novelty songs including “Genie The Magic Record<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Chris Difford & Glen Tilbrook of Squeeze wrote “Black Coffee In Bed<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Heavy D’s “Black Coffee<\/a>” contains a sample of James Brown’s “The Payback.<\/a>” which was written by James Brown, John Starks, and Fred Wesley.<\/p>\n

Paul Francis Webster & Sonny Burke wrote “Black Coffee.<\/a>” Webster wrote the lyrics to three<\/a> Academy Award<\/a> winning songs<\/a>\u00a0and<\/em> the Spider Man Theme<\/a>. Burke later collaborated with Peggy Lee for the score to “Lady & The Tramp<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Brendon Small<\/a> wrote the “Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Alonzo Mathis,\u00a0Terius Nash, Darnell Richard, Yung Joc, and Hosea Williams wrote “Coffee Shop<\/a>.” Mathis co-wrote on the BMI-award winning song “Papers<\/a>.” Nash (aka The Dream)<\/a> is a massively successful pop songwriter who co-wrote Rihanna’s “Umbrella<\/a>” and Beyonce’s “Single Ladies<\/a>” to name just two reasons you’d like to visit his house. Richard and Williams also c0-wrote the BMI-award winning song “Do It To It<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

DeSylva, Brown, & Henderson wrote “You’re The Cream In My Coffee<\/a>“. Ray Henderson wrote the music to “Bye Bye Blackbird<\/a>,” “I’m Sitting On Top Of The World<\/a>,” and “Button Up Your Overcoat<\/a>,” the latter also with DeSylva & Brown.<\/p>\n

Blur wrote “Coffee and TV.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

BONUS: Milton Drake and Ben Oakland wrote “Java Jive<\/a>“. Milton Drake also wrote “Mairzy Doats<\/a>“. Ben Oakland was an incredibly prolific composer of film scores who also collaborated with Oscar Hammerstein II to write “I’ll Take Romance<\/a>.”<\/p>\n