[Skybird74]

Originally Posted by Joe Nieves

I appreciate your careful understanding of what I am trying to convey, the whole problem I'm having with this logic is if an average person is looking for a song Title that begins with "The" I'm pretty confident they are not looking for it under "W" and that is straight common sense, If you read the "Billboards" Top 40 listing they don't list a Song Title with "The" at the End of the Song Title..

It's also much easier for customers to find Song Titles on their own and don't have to ask the same questions all THE TIME...

I decided to be logical from a customers point of view and print my books to make sense to them the customer, and make it easier on myself...

Another thing is that the option states clearly "The/A" At Start" which means at the beginning of the (Song Title) as in the dialog image I provided and the second option is ",The/A at end"..., The first option doesn't work properly, if I was to print my books that way, it will Be Useless, and will cause even more confusion and more questions, so this should be fixed so it could be useful, the way it is now it can't be used..

Thank you Walt
Joe...

Joe, regarding "logic" - I have to say that I, personally, think you are making too much out of this. Can I please ask - how long you have been in this business? After 17+ years () I have discovered that there really is NO logic or rhyme or reason as to how Singers look up songs. Although I can't think of a specific example right now, there are definitely some songs that you will automatically think should be listed by "The" and sometimes you won't even consider "The" and will look up the song by the next word. You can only GUESS as to which way one of your customers will look for a song. Sooooooooooooo, you do the best you can at presenting a Songbook that will be appeal to the "masses". What I am trying to say... is that Hoster's way of listing songs in the Songbook DOES work for the majority of Singers. You will never make everyone happy!

One example is ....... some Singers look for specific songs under "Broadway", while others look for those same songs under "Show Tunes" that are not necessarily under any specific Artist.
Am I making any sense?