Woman: Wow! You're Frazz, the famous songwriter! Do you know Randy Newman?
Frazz: That's pretty much what it's like to be famous.
Girl: Who's Randy Newman?
Had that happen at work: told a new employee, “We;come to the family – some days it’s the Osmonds, other days it’s the [Ozzy] Osbournes.” She looked at me and asked, “What’s an Osmond?” I went into a corner and drowned my age in a quart of MetaMucil.
I work full time, exercise slightly less than Frazz, and have time left to play my musical instrument about once a week. Just saying the songwriting thing stretches credence.
Streaming stations pay for the songs they play, radios (in America) don’t. Radios everywhere else do, and rather a lot. The exact method of payment to various artists is, as noted above, fairly insane… its part of why bands like the Dead just relied on touring, because that was really where the money was (and the ability to follow it, at that.)
Oh, and songwriters sometimes get paid in situations where the performers don’t, but they still get a lot less at the end of the day!
Ewal Doh: So it was claimed in the lyrics, but as bigpuma pointed out, he didn’t write that one. As Dorothy Hammerstein would point out, Jerome Kern didn’t write Old Man River, but dah dah dadah, while her husband wrote Old Man River.
Arianne about 9 years ago
Sigh …. short people…. Oh well, he gives us all his love…
Arianne about 9 years ago
April 3, 2001
emjaycee about 9 years ago
Had that happen at work: told a new employee, “We;come to the family – some days it’s the Osmonds, other days it’s the [Ozzy] Osbournes.” She looked at me and asked, “What’s an Osmond?” I went into a corner and drowned my age in a quart of MetaMucil.
tahoeh2o about 9 years ago
Short People…
Varnes about 9 years ago
Sail away…..Sail away….We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay…
hippogriff about 9 years ago
GorgoloChick: Or more precisely, you write lyrics and compose music.
Varnes about 9 years ago
comicsssfan, she could leave her hat on, if she had one…
tammyspeakslife Premium Member about 9 years ago
Randy Newman sang the song ‘Short People’ … fitting
Seed_drill about 9 years ago
I work full time, exercise slightly less than Frazz, and have time left to play my musical instrument about once a week. Just saying the songwriting thing stretches credence.
sbischof about 9 years ago
Streaming stations pay for the songs they play, radios (in America) don’t. Radios everywhere else do, and rather a lot. The exact method of payment to various artists is, as noted above, fairly insane… its part of why bands like the Dead just relied on touring, because that was really where the money was (and the ability to follow it, at that.)
Oh, and songwriters sometimes get paid in situations where the performers don’t, but they still get a lot less at the end of the day!
hippogriff about 9 years ago
Ewal Doh: So it was claimed in the lyrics, but as bigpuma pointed out, he didn’t write that one. As Dorothy Hammerstein would point out, Jerome Kern didn’t write Old Man River, but dah dah dadah, while her husband wrote Old Man River.