Possible Clues:

• Produces eggs
• Deposits, as eggs
• Drama doesn't start with songs
• Sets down the old songs
• Ascribes, as blame
• Does a hen's job
• Attributes, as blame
• Be idle, by the sound of it, with such affirmatives by the half-hundred
• Melody ultimately in place of Hollywood's songs
• Bets on Macaulay's songs