Episode # 2125
6/19 How They Wrote the Songs What’s the trick? How do they do it? Sometimes there’s no story at all. Somebody sat at a piano, wrote a song, and walked away. But sometimes there are songs whose invention is a good story. Never lose sight of the practicality, though. When somebody asked lyricist Sammy Cahn which came first, the words or the music, he said, “The phone call.”
