Steve, B needs to have written on a Carpenters hit.

This was the only guess you have gotten wrong.

You are still the winner on points, having guessed everything correct, including "Arthur's Theme" which was such a crucial element in solving the puzzle.

Congrats on sticking with it!

I will show all the correct answers and all the songs below.

Guessing the actual songs was not something that was needed to be done (they simply needed to be "arrived at" to have gotten the songwriters and artists correct), but I will show all the correct answers and all the songs below:

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Gary Lewis & the Playboys (Recording artist W)>

<"She's Just My Style" (Leon Russell, songwriter A) "Superstar">

<The Carpenters (Recording Artist X)>

<"Close To You" (Burt Bacharach, Songwriter B) "Arthur's Theme">

<Christopher Cross (Recording artist Y)>

<"Arthur's Theme" (Carole Bayer Sager, Songwriter C) "Ghost Town">

<Kanye West (Recording artist Z)

*BTW, "221,000 to 252,000" is the variable distance between the moon and New York City.

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In hindsight, a simpler puzzle involving mostly the same would have been:

Dionne Warwick (Recording Artist X)>

"Anyone Who Had a Heart"<songwriter A (Burt Bacharach) "Arthur's Theme"*>

<Recording Artist Y (Christopher Cross)>

"Arthur's Theme"* (Carole Bayer Sager, Songwriter Y) "Ghost Town">

<Kanye West (Recording Artist Z)

---that would have been much easier and a more elegant puzzle, actually spanning from 1962-2018 with just one connecting artist! Indeed, "Arthur's Theme" is kind of a "magic song" in that the songwriting has a hit writing span of 56 years! That's pretty amazing if you think about it.


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Note to self: Future versions of "6 Degrees of Carole Bayer Sager" will just have ONE middle/hidden recording artist with TWO hidden songwriters, one above, one below the recording artist in question. This should make for more intuitive game play and be more fun.

Thanks Craig, Steve, and whomever else was silently, patiently participating in this "trial" version (0.1).

And again BIG CONGRATULATIONS to Steve!


Mike

Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 09/17/23 01:26 PM.

Fate doesn't hang on a wrong or right choice
Fortune depends on the tone of your voice

-The Divine Comedy (Neil Hannon)
from the song "Songs of Love"
from the album "Casanova" (1996)