Re: Tom Snow and other great pop melodists...

Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 02:49:56 GMT
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.songwriting
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> > "Irene Jackson" <email-address-deleted> wrote :
> >
> >> I know I've heard a song or two from it, but now that you've mentioned
it,
> >> I'll have to find it again and have a listen through :-). Bacharach
wrote
> >> some great stuff...I especially liked the songs that Dionne Warwick
> >> recorded.
> >
> > Yep I love a lot of those too. I generally found Hal David's lyrics to
> > be serviceable but not inspired, like say, Paul Simon's lyrics can be.
> > On a few he had some great lines like the "pumping gas" line in San
jose,
> > or the heartfelt simplicity of Alfie.Hal was definitely not a
pyrotechnical
> > lyricist like Simon or Ira Gershwin for that matter...
For the most part, I'd agree with you on that, Irene. But there's at least
one song that I think is just the opposite... the lyric really holds
together and the music seems to fall apart. It's an obscure little song
they wrote called "Whoever you are, I love you" (aka "Sometimes your eyes
look blue to me"). I think the lyric deserves a new setting. Don't know
if you know it, but it's a great lyric, IMO.
Of course, the fact that the music doesn't work too well may explain why
it's still an obscure little song. ;^)
-- James