Members Mark Blackburn Posted September 26, 2010 Author Members Share Posted September 26, 2010 I think this time of year may be the most 'celebrated in song,' don't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted September 29, 2010 Author Members Share Posted September 29, 2010 An American friend (who knows I love Sinatra) asked me today, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted October 2, 2010 Author Members Share Posted October 2, 2010 On a cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members htheshadow Posted October 8, 2010 Members Share Posted October 8, 2010 Thanks for sharing this, for my opinion i think that everyone has something that he loves more then others in songs, i saw people who like lyrics more, others like the melody...etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted October 12, 2010 Author Members Share Posted October 12, 2010 Hard to believe that Cole Porter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members htheshadow Posted October 15, 2010 Members Share Posted October 15, 2010 I think that every song part have to be taken care of, because they are all important, but i think that the "Melody" is what attracts most people because it plays directly with their brains, so i try to gather a lot of ideas in order to write a good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted October 15, 2010 Author Members Share Posted October 15, 2010 On another thread today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted October 16, 2010 Moderators Share Posted October 16, 2010 Originally Posted by Mark Blackburn There was Brenda Lee delivering a Cole Porter song (from ten years earlier) with an early (earliest-ever?) funky feel to the arrangement. You have to see it!Lee Knight didn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted October 16, 2010 Author Members Share Posted October 16, 2010 Thanks Lee, for coming out and saying it before I could -- Brenda Lee was sexy! --- The Sirius Radio show host just played my new favorite version (which I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted October 19, 2010 Author Members Share Posted October 19, 2010 Ten months ago, I titled this thread, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted October 21, 2010 Author Members Share Posted October 21, 2010 Another thread quotes Elton John as saying today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted October 30, 2010 Author Members Share Posted October 30, 2010 On an eclectic show today that included Patsy Cline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted November 6, 2010 Author Members Share Posted November 6, 2010 Minutes ago, satellite radio played a great song (a strong melody & evocative lyrics) -- the only version I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members netbrian Posted November 10, 2010 Members Share Posted November 10, 2010 For me having lyrics first before melody after adding a melody then that's the time you can edit the lyrics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted November 10, 2010 Author Members Share Posted November 10, 2010 Thanks, "NetBrian" -- I'm just now reflecting on your note, and how it has been applied by various great song-writers of the past -- a back-and-forth, give-and-take where . . . first there's a song idea, expressed in a snippet of lyric perhaps, and the composer is inspired, in turn, by that underlying thought. Then, maybe some further give-and-take, where the composer may offer to change the melody in places, to achieve a perfect fit with a lyric "you wouldn't want to change." (See earlier this thread, and Sammy Cahn agonizing for weeks to find words for Jimmy Van Heusen's "don't change a note for me" melody -- "ONLY THE LONELY" the title track for arguably Sinatra's greatest album of ballads, circa 1958.) ---- I see we've turned 20,000 "views" and just wanted to thank all the (much)younger folk who've tuned in to see which great old song is being celebrated this day. As it happens, I would like to praise something I just heard in the past hour on satellite radio . . . a case of old wine (two) combined in one new bottle by one of today's great singers, Tierney Sutton. First an aside, if you'll permit. In long ago 1959, my favorite romantic, humorous lyricist Sammy Cahn, and his collaborator/composer Jimmy Van Heusen, wrote the title track for a best-selling album by Sinatra -- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted November 15, 2010 Author Members Share Posted November 15, 2010 On another thread (two doors down, where as Dolly sang famously, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted November 18, 2010 Author Members Share Posted November 18, 2010 On the drive in to work this morning I was listening, not for the first time, to Bob Dylan performing a straight-up cover of a song Dean Martin made famous (back when Bob and I were both about ten years old!) Funny thing, just before the song came on satellite radio, channel 75 this morning, I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members juliet87 Posted November 18, 2010 Members Share Posted November 18, 2010 I allways have the lyrics first, and then the melody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members grace_slick Posted November 19, 2010 Members Share Posted November 19, 2010 I don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted November 19, 2010 Author Members Share Posted November 19, 2010 Wow. Two Ladies present. Thanks for your comments, Juliet87 and Grace Slick! You've made me SMILE. Which is why I'm here this day, actually! Ever hear of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted November 19, 2010 Moderators Share Posted November 19, 2010 One of my all time favorite tunes. It's what made Chaplin great instead of just very talented. It's what separated him from the others in that early era of popular entertainment. To be so funny and yet to write such hopeful sadness... in a melody. Great lyric as well by Parsons and Turner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted November 23, 2010 Author Members Share Posted November 23, 2010 "THESE FOOLISH THINGS" was one of my parents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted November 24, 2010 Members Share Posted November 24, 2010 Originally Posted by grace_slick I don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted November 25, 2010 Author Members Share Posted November 25, 2010 When I met Tony Bennett a little over a year ago (as he inscribed my copy of his autobiography, 'THE GOOD LIFE') I left with him a copy of a review I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rockinrobby Posted November 26, 2010 Members Share Posted November 26, 2010 A classic melody, with classic lyrics can also be a good thing? You can change both "very slightly" and actually make it yours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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