question about buddy holly and elvis?

Question

why did elvis never write his own songs but buddy holly did

Answer 1

One might assume that Buddy Holley had both an interest in and a talent for writing songs, and Elvis did not.

Answer 2

I saw Buddy Holly in Concert just before he died,amazing plus I was so very young.Being able to compose music is a gift that Elvis didn't have Two other favourites for me from that era Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis..

Answer 3

Buddy Holly like Bob dylan were composers ,Elvis was not ,he only composed one song
cant think of the one right now ,but the lyrics were simple.

Answer 4

buddy holly only wrote two songs Elvis wrote quite few of is own if you look at the back of all Holly's record sleeves alot of them was n p Norman petty

Answer 5

Many singers are singers because they can't write music or lyrics. There are a lot of singers who don't write their own music. That's what keep songwriters employed. There are a lot of songwriters who wrote music a long time before becoming famous as singers.
Then, there are those who write a lot of their own music. Sadly, Buddy Holly didn't live long enough to fully show his talents as a songwriter.

Answer 6

Elvis did write some of his own songs.

Answer 7

He never had to.His songs were all chosen for him after he signed with The Colonel.
The reason Buddy did was that he was part of a group first plus he had talent.

Answer 8

Elvis had no talent for writing music or song lyrics, kind of obvious is it not.

Answer 9

Because in the very early days of rock n roll most performers didn't write their own songs, they got them from staff writers in the Brill Building or Tin Pan Alley.

Holly , like Chuck Berry, Little Richard,Bo Didley , Neil Sedaka, Carole King, was talented enough to write his own material and he was one of the forerunners of the singer -songwriters who became so popular in the sixties and seventies and even today.

Answer 10

talent , elvis could sing man could he ... but buddy could do both !!