Hi Steve, clarifying your choice of the word "act" is to cover ALL configurations of solo artists, bands, and everything in-between. Thanks. Looks like a good one!

Also, you use your middle name in your example. Does this mean the songwriter's middle name is the second letter in your jumble whether or not we know that songwriter by that (first, middle, and last name) configuration or not? IOW, if Joni Mitchell's middle name was "Nancy." --it's not, but just as an example...

Or is it that if that middle name is indeed the second letter of the jumble, it's because that's the way people know that songwriter's name, such as "Jerry Jeff Walker."

I guess I just want to disallow the possibility of that second letter being a middle name if it's not normally how we know that songwriter, as having that middle name as part of his/her "professional name."

Thanks again, if clarifying gives something away, I understand!

Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 10/10/23 02:36 PM.
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