I've been very tied up with family problems in the past week and will probably continue to be tied up for another week so I haven't got much time nor mental energy to devote to blogging. I do have enough time and energy to blog this scrap, though.
Continuing the discussion about the authorship of 'House with no door', I had occasion to look at the cd sleeve and the songwriting credits, which are as follows (original orthography)
Killer (Hammill/Banton/Smith)
House with no door (Hammill.........Jackson)
The Emperor in his war room (Hammill)
Lost (Hammill)
Pioneers over c (Hammill/Jackson.........Band)
As we know that Killer was definitely a joint composition, one can assume that the use of the slash (/) means that the songwriting credit is shared - thus 'Pioneers' was definitely written by Hammill/Jackson. One can assume that the use of the ellipsis (.....) indicates an arranging credit: thus 'Pioneers' was written by H/J and arranged by the band. Hence 'House' was written by Hammill but 'arranged' by Jackson - this is how his instrumental woodwind arrangement was credited.
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