Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 4 – April 1991 – Interview: Dean Pitchford

Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 4 – April 1991 – Interview: Dean Pitchford

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Table of Contents

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INTERVIEW – DEAN PITCHFORD 7
With the new Whitney Houston hit, “All The Man I Need,” songwriter/ lyricist Dean Pitchford continues a string of successes that led him from acting/singing/dancing roles on Broadway to screenplays and #1 hits.

THE INCREASING VALUE OF FILM AND TELEVISION COPYRIGHTS -PART 2 – THE BACKGROUND SCORE 10
Jeffrey and Todd Brabec are back to show us what kinds of royalties can come from background scores and the paper trail from the source to your pocket.

PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES – IT’S TIME TO SPEAK UP FOR MUSICAL DIVERSITY 12
Clive Davis, president of Arista Records, speaks out against the homogenization of the pop charts and the lack of critical respect for interpretive artists and non-artist writers.

UPBEAT – WHEN THE MUSIC’S OVER: THE DOORS 15
Dan Kimpel reviews the Oliver Stone film, The Doors.

THEORETICALLY SPEAKING -STRATEGIC SONGWRITING 16
David Cat Cohen gives you a check-list of battle plans for your next song assault.

TOOLS OF THE TRADE-1991 WINTER NAMM SHOW 18
Hank Linderman gives us his view of NAMM’s latest cornucopia of electronic and acoustic wizardry for music makers.

LASS NEWS
MEMBER NEWS – NOTEWORTHY – MUSICAL CHAIRS 4
News about classes, biz events, where your favorite publishers and a&r reps are this month, good stuff about our members and Pick Ups.

WEEKLY SHOWCASE SCHEDULE 13
Cassette RouletteTM (publisher song critiques) and Pitch-A-ThonTM (producers and record company reps looking for songs and acts).

APRIL 1991 • SONGWRITERS MUSEPAPER 3

From the Acting Archivist…

Much like the Songmine columns posted earlier, the archives contain a large collection of Songwriter Musepaper publications. With this posting, I am beginning a project to scan the cover and table of contents of each issue and then OCR (convert the scanned picture to text) the table of contents in order to make it searchable. I don’t yet have the staff necessary to create complete scanned issues of the Museupaper, but if there is interest in a particular article or interview, I can scan that and make it available here.

Douglas E. Welch, douglas@welchwrite.com

Previously in Songwriters Musepaper:

• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 10 Issue 1 – January 1995 – Interview: Stephanie Davis
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 12 Issue 1 – January 1997 – Interview: Skip Ewing
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 3 Issue 11 – October-November 1988 – Interview: Jules Shear
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 4 Issue 5 – May 1989 – Interview: Lyle Lovett
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 11 Issue 12 December 1996 – Interview: Allan Rich
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 1 – January 1991 – Interview: Fee Waybill
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 4 Issue 1 – January 1989 – Interview: Steve Lukather: Major Guitar Talks Major Songs
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 5 Issue 9 – September 1990 – Interview: Desmond Child
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 7 Issue 4 – April 1992- Interview: Thom Bell
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 7 Issue 7 – July 1992 – Interview: Robert Byrne
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 3 – March 1991 – Interview: Alan Silvestri
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 5 Issue 4 – April 1990 – Interview: Michael Jay
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 5 Issue 10 – October 1990 – Songwriters Expo 14 – Interview: Glen Ballard
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 10 – October 1991 – Interview: Dewayne Blackwell
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 7 Issue 9 –  September 1992 – Songwriters Expo 16 – Interview: Jennifer Warnes
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 8 Issue 10 – October 1993 – Cover: Charles John Quarto and Pete Wasner
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 8 Issue 8 – August 1993 – Cover: Interview: Janis Ian
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 7 Issue 10 – October 1992 – Cover: Interview: John Trudell