A very interesting article from Reuters about Ray Charles’ effect as a performer on both the songs he interpreted (helping out those songwriters’ catalogues) and his own publishing catalogue that he owned or that he wrote while under Warner/Chappell Music. Ahead of the 80th anniversary of Ray Charles’ birth on September 23, 2010, the Ray [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Songwriting Story’
Gordon and Gord – Easter Day Broadcast
Earlier this month in Toronto, a master class in songwriting was offered up by two of the greatest Gords in Canada – folk icon Gordon Lightfoot and Tragically Hip rocker Gord Downie in the inaugural concert of a new six-part series, If You Could Read My Mind, named for Lightfoot’s 1970 breakthrough song. Sponsored by [...]
Springsteen to Guest on Spectacle
The Boss will be a guest on Elvis Costello’s Spectacle program this coming season on CTV in Canada (and on January 27 on Sundance in the U.S.). From a New Jersey Star-Ledger article by Jay Lustig about the 2-hour season finale with Bruce and members of his E-Street Band: Songs performed by the entire ensemble [...]
Brandy Alexander, Ron Sexsmith & Feist
John Lennon and Harry Nilsson and a night of Brandy Alexanders in 1974 led to Leslie Feist and Ron Sexsmith co-writing Brandy Alexander some 30 years later… Ah, gotta love your music history and songwriting stories… This is from a recent interview found in the Montreal Gazette: Ron Sexsmith’s songwriting collaboration with Feist would never [...]
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