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Fascinatin' Rhythm: I Am and I Want, 08/31/2019

Pintrest

Episode #1935  

8/31      I Am and I Want Two kinds of songs that sound generic unless you write them for a musical that cares about character. During the Great American Songbook, when writers of scores for a new musical thought about what kinds of songs to write and where to put them, what they called “I Am songs” and “I Want songs” were usually near the top of the list.