Nun, wenn sie nicht für die Ausnahme ausgewählt wurden, wird's davon wohl keine Aufnahmen geben, oder? Und was würde ein Songwriter wohl mit einer abgelehneten Demo-Aufnahme für einen Elvis-Soundtracks machen? Aufheben und darauf hoffen, dass es 40 Jahre später dafür ggf. mal ein Publikum gibt?
Hier ein Auszug aus einem Interview mit Ben Weisman zum Prozedere der Songauswahl:
Elvis Australia: You wrote quite a few songs for each picture. How did that come about?
Ben Weisman: Well, what happened is that living in New York, they would mail the scripts to myself, Leiber & Stoller, a lot of writers. And we all had to fight for each song in the movie. So we'd all make our demos, and then a gentleman named Freddy Bienstock would take all these demos and go to Hollywood. And they would play for the producers. And the producers picked maybe seven or eight songs for each scene. And then they would present them to Elvis, Elvis would pick maybe two or three and decide which one he would try first. So it was really a scramble. It was really wild times in those years.
Quelle: Elvis.com.au
Eine ähnliche Geschichte habe ich neulich noch irgendwo gelesen, weiß aber nicht mehr wo. Ich werde einmal in mich gehen ...
Hier ein Auszug aus einem Interview mit Ben Weisman zum Prozedere der Songauswahl:
Elvis Australia: You wrote quite a few songs for each picture. How did that come about?
Ben Weisman: Well, what happened is that living in New York, they would mail the scripts to myself, Leiber & Stoller, a lot of writers. And we all had to fight for each song in the movie. So we'd all make our demos, and then a gentleman named Freddy Bienstock would take all these demos and go to Hollywood. And they would play for the producers. And the producers picked maybe seven or eight songs for each scene. And then they would present them to Elvis, Elvis would pick maybe two or three and decide which one he would try first. So it was really a scramble. It was really wild times in those years.
Quelle: Elvis.com.au
Eine ähnliche Geschichte habe ich neulich noch irgendwo gelesen, weiß aber nicht mehr wo. Ich werde einmal in mich gehen ...
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