And glad you should be, Max, for missing him, I mean. Found comedy;
it's a great mode.
Doug
On 17-May-05, at 4:06 PM, cooee wrote:
> Lucrative lyric writing
> (found, mostly)
>
> Mike Brady to speak on lyric writing
> at the Williamstown Literary Festival.
>
> Brady will explain how song lyrics ‘can be
> like a story condensed down
> to the minimum of words.
>
> In commercials you have to tell a story
> in 30 seconds of words.
>
> Radio is the theatre of the mind, the listener
> creates the pictures in their own mind.’
>
> Brady worked as an insurance collector
> in Williamstown for five years.
>
> ‘I was collecting from one in three households,
> and so I got to know nearly every nook
> and cranny of the town,’ he said.
>
> He’s created thousands of
> radio and TV commercials,
> including ‘Lucky You’re with AAMI’,
> ‘SPC Baked Beans and Spaghetti’,
> and ‘Hard Yakka’.
>
> 25 years ago his football song,
> ‘Up There Cazaly’, became
> Australia’s best-selling single,
> till eclipsed more recently by his releasing
> Joe Dolce's ‘Shaddup Your Face’.
>
> Hear Mike Brady –
> Town Hall Supper Room, Saturday at 10.
>
> Council Chamber, Sunday at 4 :
> Alison Croggon and Helen Morse – play readings.
>
> Missed him. They were good -
> also theatre of the mind.
> But are they in the wrong line of business?
>
>
> Max Richards
> North Balwyn, Melbourne
>
> Wednesday May 18, 2005
>
>
Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
(780) 436 3320
There are places named for
other places, ones where
a word survives whatever happened
which it once referred to. And there are
names for the places water comes and touches.
But nothing for the whole.
Bill Manhire
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