Long before I considered myself a profession record label weasel I worked in a government bunker as a data librarian. My job title was Records Management Assistant and my duties included archiving government documents, maps, tax records and all matter of ephemera – including name tags from VIPs who visited City Hall and ribbon cutting scissors from shopping mall openings attended by our politicians.
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JAIMIE VERNON – THE ORIGIN OF SONG
Posted in Opinion with tags Antônio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, Bacharach & David, Bernie Taupin, Bob Segarini, Brazil, Brill Building, Bryan Adams, Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, Canadian Music, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Closing Time, Dan Wilson, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elton John, fatherhood, Flying Saucer Reader, Goffin & King, Helo Penheiro, inspiration, Jaimie Vernon, Jim Vallance, John Woloschuk, Klaatu, Leiber & Stoller, Mann & Weil, Muse, Playboy, Rio de Janeiro, robin thicke, Semisonic, songwriters, Stan Getz, Star Wars, Terry Draper, The Carpenters, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Girl From Ipanema, Tin Pan Alley, Vinícius de Moraes, World Contact Day on February 21, 2015 by segarini
Songwriters are a gifted breed. They’re poets that think in three dimensions. It isn’t enough to be able to put pen to paper and Chaucer their ideas onto papyrus. They have to lift those words from this black and white template and insert them into music from which a melody rises and falls.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 