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From: steiny@idsvax.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Re: Good and bad music
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Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 02:00:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 26 02:00:23 1985
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>
> Just a little more food for thought. There must be a fair number of
> musicians on this net. If top-40 music is so simple and formula, then
> any good musician should be able to write a top-40 hit. Try it. At worst,
> you'll see that's it's not that easy. At best, you'll get rich!
> 
> 				Seth Jackson
> 				dec-curium!jackson

	Writing the song is just a tiny tiny part of making a
top 40 hit.  The marketing is enormous and expensive.

	John Fogerty, now, that guy can crank out top 40 hits.  He
has it wired.

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