Word: tunesmith
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Songwriters Burrello and Murray thought they had made a pretty effective protest record, ordered 500 copies for disk jockeys. But in two weeks the composers have received orders for more than 100,000 copies, and the demand shows no sign of falling off. Tunesmith Murray is frightened. He is afraid, he says, that the team will become known as the "Horrible Twins" and will never be able to write anything serious again. Worse than that, the U.S. public may "have a secret desire for really horrible music. It's getting into the psychiatric...
...Hoosier Tunesmith Hoagy (Stardust) Carmichael, getting set to replace NBC Comics Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca for the summer, beat the television critics to the punch with a quick self-appraisal of his vocal talents: "You can't take too much of my voice. I play my records three times and then I can't stand them. It sounds awful monotonous...
...convince record manufacturers that his publisher's song is headed for the bestseller lists. There is plenty of music for record men to choose from; after a weary week of listening, they are ready to believe that every third person in the U.S. is a would-be tunesmith. But since the only way to be sure of not missing a hit is to listen to everything, most companies assign experts to plow through the plankton-like mass of material. The Tin Pan Alley title for the top picker in each record company is "A & R man" (for Artists...
Raminay! (Jo Stafford; Columbia) was a New Orleans chimney sweeps' cry. Judging from this song, neither the tunesmith (Sammy Fain) nor pseudo Blues Singer Stafford ever got within good hearing distance of the South's "Cradle of Jazz...
...Alley's Pentagon-the Brill Building, on Broadway-oldtime songwriters are taking it big. A novice at the trade has written a catchy song called Snowflakes, Guy Lombardo has recorded it for Decca, and song sheets and records are selling in a flurry. The successful tunesmith: a nine-year-old girl from Brooklyn, a fourth-grader who doesn't even know Billboard from Variety...