It's his destiny, imposed by his limitations as both singer and tunesmith.
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But Alexandrov was an expert tunesmith and knew from his choral conducting the core of the Russian traditions.
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Songs have been on Mr. Adams's mind these days, and he tried his hand at becoming a tunesmith for the new opera.
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It was always a canard that Jerry Herman, the big-thump tunesmith, and Stephen Sondheim, the big-think musical dramatist, represented opposing and hostile camps.
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The German critic Theodor Adorno dismissed Weill's American music as the work of a tunesmith and sellout, and much German thought followed in that vein.
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The legendary tunesmith, record producer and front-man of the Miracles has paved an unparalleled musical legacy—and it all leads back to his days at Detroit's Dwyer Elementary.
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Mr. White, who had formative experience in the vanguard of African-American art music, brought the full spectrum of those interests to the table as a tunesmith, bandleader, producer and singer.
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A recent dropout of NYU, where he studied pre-med on a fencing scholarship, he had laid down both scalpel and épée to pursue his dream of becoming a Tin Pan Alley tunesmith.
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For production help, they tapped Adam Schlesinger, the pop tunesmith behind Fountains of Wayne and the '220s smash that never was, "That Thing You Do." It was Schlesinger who oversaw the Monkees' most recent album, 2016's Good Times — a late-career highlight that gave them their first Top 20 disc in nearly half a century.
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Earlier this year, the three surviving Monkees reunited in the studio with producer Adam Schlesinger – a veteran of the uber-poppy Fountains of Wayne and the tunesmith behind the brilliant '60s sound-alike "That Thing You Do." Vintage studio tracks, abandoned for decades, were revamped, and top tier superfans including Noel Gallagher, Rivers Cuomo and Ben Gibbard all rushed to contribute fresh songs.
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" In conclusion, the master tunesmith sang several lines from his song "Really Gonna Miss You," a touching ballad of loss: "We're going to miss you / It's really going to be different without you / For the rest of my life I'm gonna be thinking about you / I'll miss you by buddy, I'll miss you my friend / I know that my love for you will never end.
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Riedel, Michael. "Play it Again, Jerry. Broadway Tunesmith Jerry herman Looks Back on Years in Revue". New York Daily News.
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He is a book editor, magazine writer, games authority, author, tunesmith, newspaper columnist, lexicographer, businessman, translator, amateur criminologist and a half dozen other lesser things besides.
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American Songwriter gave a glowing review of Gold Dust, stating that often Amos improves upon original versions of the songs and praising her skills as a musician, vocalist, and tunesmith.
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Quickflight was a new wave band formed in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. The band released two albums in the early 1980s Breakaway on Tunesmith and their second Decent Beat on Star Song Records.
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Tunesmith Retrofit is an album by American blues/folk singer and guitarist Kelly Joe Phelps, released in 2006. It was his first recording on the Rounder label after five releases with Rykodisc. It reached #5 on the Billboard Top Blues Albums charts.
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Liszt and Chopin professed themselves fans. Of the 19th-century giants, only Berlioz demurred. Those musicologists who consider Bellini to be merely a melancholic tunesmith are now in the minority.Tim Ashley, "Opera must make you weep and die", The Guardian (London), 1 November 2001.
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Rhyme Genie 3.0 was released in January 2011 to introduce a thesaurus that not only matches the meaning but also the number of syllables of words. Rhyme Genie 4.0 was released in January 2012 to introduce a new accompanying songwriting software named TuneSmith that is able to run the Mac version of the rhyming dictionary as a plug-in. Developed by Idolumic, TuneSmith includes an advanced lyrics editor, a copyright tracker and a pitch journal to assist songwriters in the creation and administration of their songs. TuneSmith's copyright tracker enables users to track the writer and publisher portions of copyright splits and oversee copyright registrations of added songs.
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"Glen Campbell and Namath in 'Norwood'". The New York Times. 57. Variety called it "little more than perpetuation of the Elvis Presley format for Glen Campbell, complete with a parade of pretty faces and uninspired countryish rhythm by Presley tunesmith Mac Davis.""Film Reviews: Norwood". Variety.
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Portrait of Timothy Swan, composer Timothy Swan (1758-1842)American Composer Timeline. was a Yankee tunesmith and hatmaker born in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. The son of goldsmith William Swan,The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass., Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, New York, 1874.
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Saketharaman also dons the hat of a tunesmith. He has tuned several Mira Bhajans, Purandharadasar Devarnamas, compositions of Annamacharyar, Kanakadasar, Sadhasiva Brahmendral and Subramania Bharathiar. He presented a full-fledged 2.5 hour concert of Shri Adhi Shankaracharyar's works that were set to tune by him in Bengaluru Gayana Samaj.
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He also co-wrote the song "Film Noir" with Simon. Webb reprised his role as arranger and co-producer on Simon's 2008 album, "This Kind of Love". In 1998, Webb completed his first book, Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting, which was published by Hyperion Books. It was well received by songwriters and performers and became a best-seller.
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"Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues" is a song written and performed by Danny O'Keefe. It was first recorded by O'Keefe in 1967, but not released. It was recorded by The Bards and released in 1968 as the b-side to the song "Tunesmith" on Parrot Records. The Bards were a band from Moses Lake, Washington.
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"Don't Make a Beggar of Me" is a popular song recorded by Frank Sinatra on 2 April 1953, at his first recording session for Capitol Records, but not released until the CD reissue of his 1962 album, Point of No Return. The song was written by the former Tin Pan Alley tunesmith Al ShermanACE Title Search Database - ASCAP.com and arranged by Axel Stordahl.
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During his childhood, Card read widely. His favorite book was Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper and he read his family's World Book Encyclopedia in its entirety. At age ten, he read science fiction short stories, including Poul Anderson's "Call Me Joe" and Lloyd Biggle Jr.'s lesser-known novel "Tunesmith". He also read works by Andre Norton and science-fiction anthologies edited by Groff Conklin.
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It was written by Estefan and famed tunesmith Diane Warren, and co-produced by Estefan's husband, Emilio Estefan, Jr. and Lawrence Dermer. The lyrics are about overcoming troubled times and coming back stronger than ever. Radio reactions to the song were strong and the videoclip got active play on various music TV channels, like VH1. It also received remixes from David Morales, Pablo Flores and Love To Infinity.
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Rob Beattie in Q magazine described her as a "gifted tunesmith, happy to wrangle words into memorable phrases ('You cannot see these bruises/They are inside my head')" and praised "Weather Song, with its infectious chorus, and the beautiful, bouncing Warhol and Williams". Songs from the album were played on Jeremy Vine's BBC Radio 2 show. The title track was used in a BBC television programme about women runners.
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Shallow Water is the debut album by Servant, and also served to launch the new label Tunesmith Records in 1979. The gatefold jacket opened to reveal a photo of the cover scene (people, furniture and all) being washed away in the tide. The album was originally issued in Canada on red vinyl, but later pressings were in standard black. In 2006, Shallow Water was reissued on CD by Retroactive Records.
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Opsvik plays upright bass and writes all the music. Four records have been released, starting with Overseas (2003), then Overseas II (2005) and third Overseas III (2008). Overseas IV was recorded in the summer of 2011 and released in 2012. Opsvik & Jennings is an experimental pop duo with tunesmith and guitarist Aaron Jennings, that have released three albums, Fløyel Files (2005), Commuter Anthems (2007) and A Dream I Used to Remember (2009).
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Oasis was an English music group, formed in 1984.Paul Fowles, Graham Wade; Concise History of Rock Music, 2012, p. 299: "A band bearing the name Oasis had briefly existed c. 1984, comprising Welsh singer and erstwhile Eurovision hopeful Mary Hopkin, classical cellist Julian Lloyd Webber (brother of West End theater tunesmith Andrew), singer/composer Bill ..." The group consisted of Peter Skellern, Julian Lloyd Webber, Mitch Dalton, Bill Lovelady and Mary Hopkin.
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Card read texts that included historical novels by Elswyth Thane and Mark Twain. He credits Tunesmith by Lloyd Biggle Jr. as having a large effect on his life. At age ten, Card wrote his first story, which was about an intelligent child who is assaulted by bullies and sustains brain damage. Card submitted the story to two magazines but it was not published, though Ender's confrontation with Stilson in Ender's Game is based on this story.
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Hyman wrote scripts for BBC radio including the programme Spotlight on a Tunesmith compered by Ben Lyon and Pioneers of Jazz among other musical series. He joined Shell International in 1952, writing and producing scripts for their Visual Aids Unit. From 1954 to 1958 he was a member of the Council of the Screenwriters' Association, and was on the Film Panel that selected the best British film scripts each year. He continued in journalism and became an expert on Sullivan's light operas and on Victorian burlesque theatre.
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Rockin' Revival is the second album by Servant, released by Tunesmith Records in 1982, and was also the first album with Matt Spransy in the lineup. The original cover featured a picture of a revival meeting using a fisheye lens, but was later replaced by a number of concert photographs. The songs "Ad Man" and the high-energy "I'm Gonna Live" both quickly became concert staples. In 2011, Rockin' Revival was added to the "CCM's 500 Best Albums of All Time" blog at No. 176.
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A diarist for The Times once incorrectly reported that he had been "loud and offensive" while attending one of Gabriel's concerts, something Baddiel has referred to in his live act. Baddiel is also a fan of David Bowie and marked the singer's 65th birthday in 2012 by expressing a desire on Twitter to see him come out of retirement. Baddiel attended the tribute concert to Bowie at London's Union Chapel following the musician's death and addressed the audience, describing Bowie as "the greatest tunesmith we have".
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Stephen Jenks (March 17, 1772 – June 3, 1856) was an Yankee tunesmith, teacher, and tunebook compiler. He was born in Glocester, Rhode Island and raised in Ellington, Connecticut. During his life he moved from town to town, living in Ridgefield and New Canaan, Connecticut, Pound Ridge, New York, and Providence, Rhode Island, finally settling in Thompson, Ohio in 1829. Between 1799 and 1810 he authored and coauthored more than ten printed collections of sacred and secular music; after moving to Ohio, he became a farmer and a maker of percussion instruments.
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Shapiro and Glebbeek claim that "From all viewpoints, "Bold as Love" is the album's tour de force". Writing a five-star review of the album for AllMusic, Cub Koda has cited the title track, along with "Little Wing", "Castles Made of Sand" and "One Rainy Wish", as evidence of Jimi Hendrix's "remarkable growth and depth as a tunesmith, harnessing Curtis Mayfield soul guitar to Dylanesque lyrical imagery and Fuzz Face hyperactivity to produce yet another side to his grand psychedelic musical vision". Sullivan singles out "Bold as Love" as the highlight of the album.
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" BBC was also very positive with statement "Crowded House have always sounded in parts like the later solo career Paul McCartney should have had. Despite the anthems being on a tight leash, repeated listens reveal this to be one of their best albums." Entertainment Weekly gave it B+ saying that "the House head honcho proved he was still a classy, clever tunesmith, and does so again here on Intriguer." Mojo, Allmusic Guide, and musicOMH gave it 4 stars with many praises such as "Intriguer will have to stand or fall on its own merits.
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The album was produced by Viktor Krauss and re- established White as a mordant storyteller and a capable tunesmith. After a seven-year hiatus from releasing albums, during which White was married and divorced, he released The Longing in 2011. Produced by White and Roger Moutenot (Yo La Tengo, Josh Rouse, Jessie Baylin), the album presents a softer, early-1970s pop style and an emphasis on love songs, rather than White's typically more challenging subject matter. White's label, Better Angels Music, simultaneously released a video for the song "Perfect Stranger," which was filmed in Paris, France by director Don Julien.
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The first influential tunesmith was William Billings (1746–1800), a native of Boston, who was a self-taught amateur musician and a tanner. William Billings was part of the colonial working class. At the age of twenty-three Billings had already composed more than one hundred original pieces of sacred music, and in 1770 he published his a tunebook, The New England Psalm Singer, the first book in which all the compositions were by an American. He advertised the work as “never before published” and stressed that it was composed by “a native of Boston”—made in America by an American.
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Daniel Fishkin is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and instrument designer, most notable for his installation Composing the Tinnitus Suites.Episode 19: Composing The Tinnitus SuitesQ&A;: Tinnitus tunesmith Fishkin's music career first started with building a daxophone, composing the album You're A Strong One on the daxophone. He has worked with Hans Reichel, inventor of the daxophone, building instruments and gathering instructions which Fishkin has shared on his website, 3 years after Reichel's death.Q&A;: Daniel Fishkin, Mad Scientist of Musical Instruments After working mainly with the daxophone, he started creating experimental musical instruments based on electronic circuits to perceive the interactions between light and sound.
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Often the hammering is done while the metal is hot, having been heated in a forge. Smithing can also involve the other aspects of metalworking, such as refining metals from their ores (traditionally done by smelting), casting it into shapes (founding), and filing to shape and size. The prevalence of metalworking in the culture of recent centuries has led Smith and its equivalents in various languages to be a common occupational surname (German Schmidt or Schmied, Portuguese Ferreiro, Ferreira, French Lefèvre, Spanish Herrero, Italian Fabbri, Ferrari, Ferrero, Ukrainian Koval etc.). As a suffix, -smith connotes a meaning of a specialized craftsperson—for example, wordsmith and tunesmith are nouns synonymous with writer or songwriter, respectively.
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"Catfish John" is a song written by Bob McDill and Allen Reynolds first released on McDill's album Short Stories, and subsequently recorded and released by American country music artist Johnny Russell. It was released in November 1972 as the fourth single from the album, "Catfish John"/"Chained".Edward Morris Songwriter Bob McDill Talks About His Many Hits Legendary Tunesmith Submits to Rare Interview at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum July 4, 2008 CMT News The song is credited with propelling Bob McDill into the front ranks of country songwriters. The song has also been performed by Jerry Garcia (Jerry Garcia Band, Old & In the Way, Grateful Dead), as well as other musicians.
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Coty wrote six of the album's eleven tracks, also covering Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' "You Got Lucky" and Bruce Springsteen's "Sad Eyes". The title track was inspired by a line of dialogue from an episode of the television series Ally McBeal. To promote the album, Coty drove to various radio stations in a truck with his picture painted on it, and the label partnered with Jones Radio Networks and the television channel Great American Country (GAC) to hold a sweepstakes in which said truck was the grand prize. Ray Waddell of Billboard reviewed Legacy favorably, stating that Coty was in "creative, confident mode" and calling him an "edgy yet melodic tunesmith".
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The song is credited with propelling Bob McDill into the front ranks of country songwriters.Edward Morris Songwriter Bob McDill Talks About His Many Hits Legendary Tunesmith Submits to Rare Interview at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum July 4, 2008 CMT News Don Williams would release "Come Early Morning" (with the B-Side "Amanda" - another noted McDill composition) as a single from his debut album, Don Williams Volume One, in 1973, and it would be a number twelve country chart hit. "Come Early Morning" is argued to have one of the first country music videos, produced by Jack Clement. "Help Yourselves To Each Other" would also be included on Williams' 1975 hit album You're My Best Friend.
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According to Lennon, this genius was similarly belittled or compromised by the expectations of fans and music critics, who favoured the conformist, "Engelbert Humperdinck" side of the Beatles, as represented by McCartney. When discussing the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership, Lennon identifies himself as the artist and truth-teller, and McCartney as a commercially focused tunesmith. He complains that, as an artist, having to play the part of a Beatle was "torture", adding: "I resent performing for fucking idiots who don't know anything. They can't feel ... They live vicariously through me and other artists ..." He denigrates the band's US fans at the height of Beatlemania, saying that American youth in 1964 displayed a clean-cut, wholesome appearance yet represented an "ugly race".
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Dan Cairns, writing in the Culture section of The Sunday Times, praised "the title track’s ode to friendship and late developers, the bare-bones upcloseness of Where Are You Going? and the wryly observational Is It Me You’re Looking For?" and said: "there is something of [Joni] Mitchell in her soaring vocal lines and [Suzanne] Vega in her confessional ones, though there are unexpected echoes, too, of Marianne Faithfull at her throatiest". Rob Beattie in Q magazine described her as a "gifted tunesmith, happy to wrangle words into memorable phrases ('You cannot see these bruises/They are inside my head')" and praised "Weather Song, with its infectious chorus, and the beautiful, bouncing Warhol and Williams". Songs from the album were played on Jeremy Vine's BBC Radio 2 show.
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Quickflight's musical style on their first album, Breakaway, was similar to keyboard- oriented, electronic, arena rock bands of the 80s mixed with new wave and was released on Tunesmith Records in 1980. Their second album, Decent Beat, was recorded at Little Mountain Sound Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and was released by Star Song Records in 1983. It was ground-breaking because it was one of the first Christian Contemporary releases in which the instruments used consisted almost entirely of synthesizers and sequencers in a style influenced by British synthesizer bands, particularly After the Fire. The album was also one of the first Christian Contemporary Music albums that was digitally mastered although it was never released on CD. Quickflight toured through the Mid-West and West Coast of the U.S. and parts of Canada, at several outdoor festivals, playing with a variety of Christian artists who included Steve Taylor, Rez Band, Kerry Livgren, Sheila Walsh, Undercover and Larry Norman.
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