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Bubble Pop Electric on Gwen Stefani's solo album is co-written by André 3000 and Seven, presumably his seven-year-old son with Erykah Badu. Any other infants, pets, grandmothers ever been listed in songwriting or production credits?

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 26 November 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

China Kantner got a songwriting credit at age 5 or thereabouts on the Jefferson Starship's "Don't Let It Rain," if memory serves.

And James Brown gave his daughters the songwriting credit on "Get Up Offa That Thing" and a few other songs in the mid '70s. Bad move on his part.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 26 November 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

sinead o connor's son jake has a whole track on his ma's
'universal mother'. he couldn't have been more than about 4 or 5.

― piscesboy, Friday, 26 November 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Nilsson's mother wrote "Marching Down Broadway" from his album "Harry".

― everything, Friday, 26 November 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Not exactly on topic, but on his '68 "Song Cycle" LP, Van Dyke Parks followed a song called "Public Domain" and credited to himself, with a song called "Van Dyke Parks" credited to "public domain".

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 26 November 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

What a tart.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 26 November 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

brydie scott wrote and sang the last song on the clean's 'modern rock', it's a deep and poignant tale of ginger ale. she sounded like she was about 6.

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 26 November 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Along the lines of the songwriting team of James Brown-and-daughter, there is also that creepy Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg duet "Lemon Incest."

― Matt Sussman, Saturday, 27 November 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone heard Eyeball Skeleton?

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 27 November 2004 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Amy Rigby's daughter (an acquaintance of mine) has appeared on her records if I remember correctly...not with songwriting credits but with instrumentation credits.

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 27 November 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember an especially vile edition of the Simon Bates show which was using BBC airtime to promote Eddie Murphy's album. There was a track based around his child saying "yeah", about which Eddie spoke at length. I mention this to get this out of my head and onto my keyboard, where I may talk about it some more.

My band The Abstainers credited a cat called Kate for the noises we got putting the mike on her belly and playing zithers over it. I hope the track isn't as annoying as that makes it sound.

― Acme (acme), Saturday, 27 November 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

And didn't Nat King Cole credit his daughter, even after he was like dead?

― Acme (acme), Saturday, 27 November 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Tori Amos's daughter Natashya is credited as the 'executive producer' of her concept covers album Strange Little Girls. Natashya was about 2 or 3 at the time.

― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 27 November 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Any other ... pets... been listed in songwriting or production credits?

Steve Albini's cat, Fluss, has a few credits to his name.

― Vic Funk, Saturday, 27 November 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

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