What was the first self-penned album?
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What was the first self-penned album?
What's the earliest album you can think of which contains only material written by the artist(s) ? So no cover versions and no contributions from external writers. I just read an article saying it was A Hard Day's Night but there must be earlier examples than that.
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Re: What was the first self-penned album?
"After School Session" Chuck Berry?
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Beat me to it, Pete. 
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Re: What was the first self-penned album?
Released May 1957. That's a contender.
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Re: What was the first self-penned album?
The first British one has to be Billy Fury's Sound of Fury released April 1960
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The Modernist wrote:The first British one has to be Billy Fury's Sound of Fury released April 1960
I didn't even know he wrote his own stuff!
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NMB wrote:The Modernist wrote:The first British one has to be Billy Fury's Sound of Fury released April 1960
I didn't even know he wrote his own stuff!
The odd thing are the credits are mixed between Fury and Wilberforce, but Wilberforce was a pseudonym for Fury. Not sure why he disguised it in this way.
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The Modernist wrote:The odd thing are the credits are mixed between Fury and Wilberforce, but Wilberforce was a pseudonym for Fury. Not sure why he disguised it in this way.
From Billy Fury dot com
The problem was that Larry Parnes wanted a cut of the royalties.
So Billy invented Wilber Wilberforce, the phantom songwriter. Wilber wrote the songs, Billy bought them from Wilber, and Wilber collected the royalties.
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