The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #52927 Message #813724
Posted By: Stephen L. Rich
29-Oct-02 - 01:22 PM
Thread Name: Songwriting Standards
Subject: RE: Songwriting Standards
"The craetive process is, all at once, easy and complicated." Well said, Kim C!!
alanabit -- Good point about listening and observing. The stories are out there. Tom Dundee is supremely good at that. songs like "Macbride/Argyle Station Furnished Rooms" and "These Cowboys" are fine examples of his ability to "create a movie" as Jerry put it.
Jerry is quite right about alanabit's songwriting. Jerry's no slouch as a tunesmith either.
One finds the earlier references to Cole porter, Johny Mercer, and the like particularly telling. A good song is a good song; genre' not withstanding. There's much to be learned from all of them (the songs and the writers).