Songs Written by Jacqueline SteinerTop Songs / Chart Singles Discography

Jacqueline Steiner (September 11, 1924 – January 25, 2019) was an American folk singer, songwriter and social activist. Steiner is known for having written the lyrics to the song "M.T.A.", about a man stuck on the Boston subway because he could not pay the exit fare. "M.T.A." was co-written with Bess Lomax Hawes as part of a Boston political campaign in 1949 and later altered slightly by the popular folk group The Kingston Trio, becoming one of their hits in... [more on Wikipedia]

As a songwriter, Jacqueline Steiner first charted in 1959 with M.T.A..The artist placed 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100.