Self-penned songs by singers who rarely write their own material

ex. Dionne Warwick's 'Two Ships Passing In The Night' (I'm not sure if this is her sole songwriting credit, but it's the only one I've come across):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss9TOhKJLso

Roger Daltrey only has two credits as the sole writer (there's a handful more with collaborators):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFAIocFPfFo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So3gQo_7rJc

The Turtles Thread (Cuz I Couldn't Find One) A.K.A. I Finally Heard Turtle Soup.

i think the turtles wanted to impress their producer ray davies and write their own kinks-like songs for turtle soup and be a real band instead of getting outside people. it worked really well. then they broke up.

George Strait has 29 studio albums but is only credited with writing 5 songs

Come come, Scott, the Turtles wrote plenty of their own songs. Having said that, I'm not sure Mark Volman wrote anything. (xp)

Howard Kaylan certainly did though.

Elvis had a co-write on "All shook up", was there any more?

Linda Ronstadt only has a couple of co-writes, including this Sesame Street album track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vkmtsAIef8

Art Garfunkel was never a songwriter but he's credited with the "Canticle" part of "Scarborough Fair" (itself a rewrite of Simon's "The Side of a Hill") and did the montage "Voices of Old People" on Bookends. Never recorded any self-penned songs on any of his solo albums afaict.

Richard Manuel has a few self-penned songs on Band albums, Helm and Danko get a few co-writes. Ofc this was a big part of their beef with Robertson.

Supposedly Richard Manual just gave up writing around 1971, and Robertson has claimed that the last few songs he had to coax out of him.

"Come come, Scott, the Turtles wrote plenty of their own songs"

i guess i never thought of them as being big songwriters. i always thought their big hits were done by outside people. but i am not a turtlesologist. it just struck me when i first heard/had turtle soup that every song was by the group.

John McVie has "Station Man" (w/Danny Kirwan) and "The Chain" (with the rest of that Mac lineup).

They were totally songwriters! So much so that when a relative got them to autograph a 45 of theirs for me they said they were pissed it wasn't one they wrote (it was "You Showed Me")

Sinatra apparently had six songwriting credits. who knew.

Mr. Success, This Love of Mine, I'm a Fool to Want You, Peachtree Street, and Take My Love.

This Love of Mine is great.

XPS to self John McVie not really a singer though.

but of course: Tony Consiglio (né Anthony J. Consiglio; 1917–2008), Sinatra's boyhood friend and longtime right-hand man, claimed that Sinatra did not write the lyrics; but rather, as a condition for recording it – a condition that Sinatra made with his manager, Hank Sanicola – his name had to be included as lyricist, a practice that was once more common with publisher and record producers.

I suspect he didn't really write it. Sinatra had a weird way with words judging from interviews etc., don't think he had it in him to be a lyricist.

don't think he had it in him to be a lyricist.

He added "Jack!" to lines all the time. That's gotta count.

Elvis had a co-write on "All shook up", was there any more?

i don't think there was a lot of writing involved in that co-write.

Here's a weird one. Petula Clark wrote a fair number of songs, but none of her hits. But she did co-write "You're The One", which was an album track for her and later a hit for the Vogues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tRoevjQcJA

The only song credited solely to Russell Mael that I am aware of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23GRXrB6YcI

His only solo credit (and a hit + great tune):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-HZsigMODE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVamFiNw-rs

(^ Mike Love alone, see also Sumahama)

Billie Holiday didn't write much, but she did manage make "Fine and Mellow" and "God Bless the Child" among them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_written_by_Billie_Holiday

Would no longer say Dave Gahan rarely writes for Depeche Mode anymore, but it took him 11 albums to contribute anything, generally 3 songs per album (4 on the new one)

James Dean Bradfield of the Manics wrote "Ocean Spray" I think that was his first one did he do more?

Yes. 'I Think I Found It' on Postcards From a Young Man.

So, two songs, and both decent. Funny...

I know he did a solo album,but.

Also, on the same subject, 'Some Kind of Nothingness' is a solo Nicky Wire composition!

The only song credited solely to Russell Mael that I am aware of:

there are a couple of songs on the debut album that he gets solo credit for ('Roger' and 'Saccharin and the War'), but I think that's it? lots of songs with co-writing credit for both brothers, though

'Pineapple" is great.

Goes well on a pizza.

Sice from the Boo Radleys gets co-credit for I think just 3 of their (early) songs

Elvis had a co-write on "All shook up", was there any more?

Without checking, I'm pretty sure his cowrite was Love Me Tender

Dusty Springfield: four songs, all B-sides (according to answers.com)

did dagmar krause write any other songs? total shame because "in the sickbay" is great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABmAZHjMpmY

half an album's worth of self-penned dagmar on this:
https://youtu.be/13Etqy3XodI?t=990

Just checked - "Love Me Tender" does have himself credited although he didn't actually write any of it. He did come up with "All shook up" as a title and suggested it to his cowriter. Two other songs from around that time, and that's it.

The ID Company record is great, one of my favourite Dagmar projects, actually, and it does make me wish she wrote more.

Sinatra apparently had six songwriting credits. who knew.

Holy shit, I had no idea! "I'm a Fool to Want You" is one of his best weepers imo