The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #34914 Message #473606
Posted By: LR Mole
31-May-01 - 10:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: A&R person for a day
Subject: A&R person for a day
Lying awake in the small hours, I was thinking about the Arrangement and Repertoire guys, back in the '40's and '50's--the people who would tell non-songwriting singers, "Hey, have I got a song for you to do."The Beatles and singer/songwriters have made them pretty much extinct, I think, but I started pondering what I'd like to hear covered, and by whom. Richard Thompson's "Waltzin's For Dreamers" could be done well, I think, by Randy Newman, or perhaps Lucinda Williams. SO, what else would we like to hear?