A good song always tells a story...

Yeahbut ® only the ones with *good words and a good melody!

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...the group "The Archies" didn't exist at all.

The next thing your gonna tell me is that the Monkees didn't exist. {holding hands over ears "la-la-la-la-la"}

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When you say "songwriter" my mind leaps immediately to folks like Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Harry Chapin, Joni Mitchell, John Prine, Cat Stevens, James Taylor, etc...

Grouping those together ties songwriter to a specific type/form of song which were not necessarily all good or even less "pop-pabulum", not to mention a (quite)specific *era of writer. You could have at least included Bjork... or even Steely Dan for that matter... but I digress...)