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Ran into a weird issue here with the song "Man in the Street" by Don Drummond & The Skatalites.
If you search for a song with that title with Drummond as an author, you get two results - one crediting Drummond and all of the Skatalites and one crediting just Drummond.
The one crediting just Drummond is T-071.177.125-3.
However, if you search for entries in ISWC with just that work, you get three different entries, each with a different author:
"BOSS THE"
"DODD CLEMENT SEYMOUR"
"DRUMMOND DON"
It's likely that Drummond alone wrote the song, as he apparently wrote a lot of songs for The Skatalites. An article about him on the site Jamaica Observer specifically mentions that song as one he wrote as well.
I have no idea who "The Boss" is, and I'm thinking that the Dodd credit is wrong as well. A reissue of the song on Dodd's own label (Coxsone) credits him, but the original release (on a different label that Dodd wasn't associated with) doesn't credit anyone.
How do I handle this? Do I just add that ISWC and treat it as a link mismatch?