Here are some of the great lyricists of 20th century popular song - ( the list excludes composer / lyricists and singer / songwriters )

Lyricist

Al Dubin...........................(1891-1945)
Ted Koehler.....................(1894-1973)
Irving Mills........................(1894-1985)
Oscar Hammerstein II ......(1895-1960)

Lorenz Hart..............................(1895-1943)

Ira Gershwin ....................(1896-1983)
Edgar "Yip" Harburg.........(1896-1983)
Mitchell Parish.................. (1900-1993)
Dorothy Fields........................(1905-1974)

Paul Francis Webster........ (1907-1984)

Johnny Burke...........................(1908-1964)

Johnny Mercer........................(1909-1976)

Frank Loesser..........................(1910-1969)

Sammy Cahn.............................(1913-1993)
Alan Jay Lerner........................(1918-1986)
Hal David.............................................(1925-)

Jerome "Doc" Pomus.............(1925-1991)
Alan & Marilyn Bergman
Norman Gimbel.................................(1927-)
Leslie Bricusse...................................(1931-)
Jerry Leiber.........................................(1933-)
Joe Melson..........................................(1935-)
Cynthia Weil.......................................(1937-)
Eddie Holland.....................................(1939-)
Gerry Goffin........................................(1939-)
Tim Rice................................................(1944-)
Bjorn Ulvaeus.....................................(1945-)
Bernie Taupin......................................(1950-)
Paul Heaton.........................................(1962-)

Main Collaborator(s)

Harry Warren
Harold Arlen
Duke Ellington
Richard Rodgers

Richard Rodgers

George Gershwin
Harold Arlen
Hoagy Carmichael
Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh
Arthur Schwartz, Cy Coleman
Duke Ellington, Sammy Fain,
Johnny Mandel
Jimmy Van Heusen

Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael
Harry Warren, Henry Mancini
Jule Styne, Jimmy McHugh,
Hoagy Carmichael
Jule Styne, Jimmy Van Heusen
Frederick Loewe
Burt Bacharach

Mort Shuman
Michel Legrand
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Anthony Newley, John Barry
Mike Stoller
Roy Orbison
Barry Mann
Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier
Carole King
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Benny Andersson
Elton John
Stan Cullimore, David Rotheray

Opening line to their most famous song ?

" My love must be a kind of blind love......"
" Don't know why, there's no sun up in the sky"
" What good is melody, what good is music......"
" When you walk through a storm....."
" The hills are alive with the sound of music......"
" Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone......"
" Summer journeys to Niag'ra......"
" Summertime, an' the livin' is easy......"
" Somewhere over the rainbow......"
" And now the purple dust of twilight time......"
" The minute you walked in the joint......"

" The poets say that all who love are blind....."

" Every time it rains, it rains......"
" Would you like to swing on a star......"
" Moon River, wider than a mile......"
" The autumn leaves, drift by my window......"
" Here we are, out of cigarettes......"

" Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away......"
" Bed? Bed? I couldn't go to bed......"
" Why do birds suddenly appear......"
" If you see me walking down the street......
" Each time we have a quarrel......"
" Round, like a circle in a spiral......"
" Tall and tan and young and lovely......"
" Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew ?"
" You ain't nothin' but a hound dog......"
" Dum-dum-dum-dumdy-doo-wah......"
" You never close your eyes anymore......"
" Whenever I'm with him, somethin' inside......"
" When this old world starts getting me down"
" It won't be easy, you'll think it strange......"
" My my, at Waterloo Napoleon did surrender"
" Goodbye Norma Jean......"
" I love you from the bottom of my pencil case"