Soul/Compositions

Purpose of this page

The purpose of this page is to maintain a list of soul compositions that have been recorded many times - with at least 10 entries to the MusicBrainz database - that present either numerous spelling variants, or some specific spelling and/or capitalization difficulty.

Track titles should be harmonized according to the composition title variants that have been chosen.

By "chosen", we mean the following:

• a proposed composition title first enters this page in the "To be discussed" list
• after it is discussed, eventually changed and approved by both soul oriented moderators and native english speakers concerned by style and spelling, it enters the main list

Note that this page is not an official styleguide, it's nothing more than an "ongoing tidying effort memo".

-Proposed- guidelines for this page

• Identify the title
  • Composer(s)
  • First release

• Find it on ASCAP/BMI (favour the main entry over variants)
• Check AllMusicGuide, serious discographies, cover scans...
• Decide and propose a title
• Wait one week or two for discussion, proposed changes, approval
• Harmonize all the occurences of your title
• Report your harmonization, including date (and possibly number of occurences)

Compositions list (proposed)

• Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)
  • Composer: Frank Wilson
  • discogs has credible information and a scan of the 7"
  • Variants: Do I Love You, Do I Love You? (Indeed I Do)
  • Approved by: Creap
  • Discussion:
  • Clean-up status: Only a few non-consistent entries at the moment

Use the following format to propose a composition:

• Proposed variant
  • Composer: Composer(s) name
  • ASCAP/BMI
  • Other sources (AMG/discogs/etc)
  • Variants: list of known variants, mispelling, improper capitalization
  • Approved by: Creap (<- your nick name), (others will add their name here if they agree)
  • Discussion: if needed, your own additional comments, and of course the following discussion
  • Clean-up status: it's strongly recommended you don't start working on it before it's approved...

To be discussed

• Add any composition