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Originally Posted by jpkusa
This is just what happens when you do market-research and focus-groups to determine what kind of songs your assembly-lines should churn out. Have you ever seen some of the songwriting credits on a typical Nashville hit? Sometimes it's the usual 2 or 3 people, but often it's as high as 5 or 6. That's fine for a big-budget movie, but a 3 minute country song?
I have heard an account of a particular label head in Nashville in the late 90's who once mentioned at a meeting that he wanted to get Patsy Cline to duet with one of his artists. The staff had to inform him that she'd been dead for several decades. Doesn't that just sum it up?
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I took no offense at all to what you had to say. I just wanted to touch on a couple of things though. Is 4 writers too many for a 3:36 song?
1982....Leave Them Boys Alone from Hank Jr's album Strong Stuff was written by the following: Dean Dillon; Gary Stewart; Hank Williams, Jr.; Tanya Tucker (sorry, I just
had to ask that)
The label head/Patsy Cline story:
I can't remember the label head's name but, they were having a meeting about an artist. They wanted to get the Patsy Cline master tapes from, I believe, MCA. They were discussing doing that when the label head piped in that it would cost a fortune to get those tapes. He then asked (I'm paraphrasing here) "Why don't we just have her come in do the duet?"
If I remember the story correctly, that pretty much ended his career as a label head in NashVegas.
Joel