Today on The Immortal Jukebox I’m going to celebrate two of those songs, written by the teenage Bobby Womack, which he recorded with his four brothers in their group, The Valentinos, in 19. People, other artists, will sit up and take notice and they will want to perform and record your songs because such songs are rare beasts. Songs which manage to mark our personal and collective times.īut, if you write such songs you can be sure of one thing. Nobody has a guaranteed formula for producing songs that can get up and walk on their own, songs with the mysteriously vitality and stickability which lodges them deep in our consciousness. That certainly holds true for writing and recording hit songs especially songs which endure not for five or ten or twenty-five years but for 50 years and more. Every time out it’s a guess and, if you’re lucky, an educated one’. It seems to me he was speaking the plain truth when he observed that when it comes to predicting success in any artistic enterprise, ‘Nobody knows anything … Not one person knows for a certainty what is going to work. William Goldman, the screenwriter of Hollywood boffo smashes such as, ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and, ‘All the President’s Men’ was a highly intelligent and perspicacious observer of the cultural scene.
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