author: marc myers

Anatomy of 55 Hit Songs: The Top Singles That Changed Rock, R&B and Soul

... street. It's about a woman's vulnerability, pride ... Avenue to work on. Next, Dionne came to the Brill Building to hear what I had come up with. Dionne Warwick ... chords and melody. Two very important elements distanced the song from being ...

Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop

... Matala comes back into my life. A couple of years ago, a friend sent me a newspaper article about Matala. It has ... lyrics of Mitchell's song. Cary wasn't such a “mean old Daddy” after all. How did you wind up in Matala? In July 1969, I ...

Why Jazz Happened

... lead sheet from one of my compositions. You had to do that if you wanted your songs played. But nothing had ever happened. So when John took the tune I gave him, I didn't think any more of it. About a month later, I ran into John Coltrane ...

Why Jazz Happened

... sheet-music publishers, who then bought what they liked from them. Then they used the songs in shows or printed them ... law was designed to enable the British government to bring order to the chaos created in the book trade when the ...

Anatomy of a Song: The Inside Stories Behind 45 Iconic Hits

... Deacon Blues.” I transcribed the chords and built an arrangement for the rhythm section that was tight but left plenty of space for other layers—like horns and background vocals that I knew they would add later. The song's famous ...

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