Burt Bacharach & Daniel Tashian
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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The Power of Lyrics
I like very much writing to Daniel's words if you sense me. I had this one phrase on blue umbrella, the hook, the chorus. The way you spaced it out you added an extra bar so it became are you still under the same blue umbrella? It just a change like that splitting the word instead of going are you stillUnderTheSameBlueUmbrella. That drove the next four bars just by that space. Yeah it continues to evolve and you know Bert thinks about these things a lot. You know he spends a lot of time like I heard that Duke Ellington could write arrangements and orchestration in the middle of chaos with no piano. He could just take some paper
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