| song writer | total song credits | sole credit |
| HANK MARVIN | 174 | 27 |
| BRUCE WELCH | 124 | 1 |
| BRIAN BENNETT | 120 | 15 |
| JOHN ROSTILL | 48 | 6 |
| JOHN FARRAR | 36 | 8 |
| JET HARRIS | 9 | 1 |
| ALAN TARNEY | 5 | 2 |
| TONY MEEHAN | 4 | 1 |
| LIQUORICE LOCKING | 2 | 0 |
| PETE CHESTER | 4 | 3 |
| ALAN HALL | 2 | 1 |
| ALAN HAWKSHAW | 1 | 1 |
| TREVOR SPENCER | 1 | 0 |
| ALAN JONES | 1 | 0 |
| WARREN BENNETT | 2 | 0 |
| BEN MARVIN | 2 | 0 |
| JERRY LORDAN | 9 | 5 |
| NORRIE PARAMOR | 7 | 6 |
| CLIFF RICHARD | 2 | 2 |
My apologies to Brian and the others I have left out but I do not yet have the information at hand to include their individual work. Maybe in the future? See notes in the Who's Who pages for some details.
I cannot guarantee the numbers exactly, I still need to finalise my checking procedure unfortunately..... however for the time being the figures are a reflection of the relative song writing credits for "self-penned" tracks by the Shadows/Drifters, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, MW&F and M&F and John Rostill.
The water is also muddied by songs written under a pseudonym as revealed by Bruce Welch to Tony Hoffman (in the first part of an interview published by Tony in SHADSFAX ISSUE 10, MARCH-APRIL 1997), including Gonzales and Shotgun. Also FBI was credited to Peter Gormley although it was written by Bruce, Hank and Jet. Apparently this was done because of contractual difficulties.