I started out this post with what I assumed would be easy-to-answer questions: Why did Stephen Schwartz end up collaborating with Steve Young for this Song, writing the music but having Young write the lyrics? Seemed pretty self-evident: that well-known team of Schwartz and Young, whose songs are all over YouTube. Right? Well, no. I have been unable to find any connection at all between these two musicians, and the song doesn’t appear in the list of compositions for either one. Schwartz and Young are or were both powerhouses in the modern music world. Sadly, Young died in 2016 at ... Read more

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