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When you Search or Browse the Warner/Chappell on-line database of titles
and writers, you will be accessing information about the best, most popular and most significant songs and writers in our catalog. If there is
something specific that you are hoping to find -- and if you are unable to find it when you search -- it is
possible that the particular song or composition you want is unavailable via an on-line search at this time.
Another reason could be that you have used a search criterion that is too narrow to obtain the exact match you
had hoped to find. Try the following suggestions, keeping this age-old wisdom in mind: If at first you don't
succeed...try altering the search criteria.
To improve the chances of finding what you want, consider these suggestions:
- When using keyword(s), try to use only the most unique ones. In the world of popular songs, the word "love" is very common. If you enter the word "love" as a keyword -- whether in the title or in the body of the lyrics -- you will get a list of songs that may be too comprehensive to be of practical use in your search for the right one.
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- While we encourage you to use the various search options to identify a particular song, we would advise you NOT to combine too many search options if you are uncertain of the exact title and writer of a particular song. If you are uncertain of the title and writer, and you begin entering strict search criteria, you will probably not find any matches when the search is completed. In that case, try using the "All Songs in Catalog" option.
If you already know that you want songs written by a particular writer, narrow your search by adding more options.
For instance:
- Songwriter -- Elton John -- combined with Decade -- 1980s -- and Chart -- Pop. Searching by those three criteria will provide you with a list of songs written by Elton John which appeared on the Pop charts in the 1980s. However, if you enter Decade -- 1920s -- with the other two Elton John search criteria, you will not find anything written by Elton thirty years before he was born. It's logical. Nor will you find songs that did not appear in a Film, Play or Television series if you select the "Movie/Stage/TV Title" option.
- While you explore the possibilities of the site and get the hang of using it, there's no reason not to use the drop-down menus under each search category. Decade, Genre, Year and especially Subject, have been designed to provide you with a range of choices that might prove to be entertaining and enlightening, even as you work the site to find exactly the right music for your project. You can also try Browsing. It's free, and it may inspire you with ideas you hadn't considered when you first began your search.
For a different approach, try Browsing.
- You may find ideas you hadn't thought of.
Some examples of items you probably won't find might be:
- Songwriter - Elton John combined with Decade -
1920s. (Elton John wasn't yet born yet)
- A complete Search using the selection
"Movie/Stage/TV Title" for a song which did not appear in a play,
television, or motion picture.
Some examples of things you would find might be:
- Songwriter - Elton John combined with Decade -
1980s. (He has many great songs from the 1980s.)
- A Search for a song that was written by a
Featured Songwriter, and which appeared in a major hit recording
or motion picture.
You'll notice that the drop-down menu under Source lists several countries. This is an innovative feature that offers you an opportunity to do a search that is truly global in scope and, in keeping with our primary goal, enables you to do business on a level that is unprecedented in the online music publishing universe. Via a reliable portal to Warner/Chappell's affiliated offices, you have access to the most successful writers and most popular songs from Germany, Holland, Italy, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom. As more of our affiliates make their catalogs available, you will discover a genuine, international resource of voices and sounds that you may tap as easily as you can our American offerings in order to enhance your choices and create a rich cultural mix of influences that will add distinction and authenticity to any project you envision.
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