Originally Posted by
heikki
Hi Mr-June,
This is what Thom told me many years ago, when we were talking about Deniece Williams' cover of "It's Gonna Take A Miracle" -
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Thom Bell: “I think Teddy Randazzo and Bobby Weinstein did that song [[plus Lou Stallman). I love their writing. And I love the arranging that Don Costa does for Little Anthony and the Imperials. That was the first guy that turned me on – Don Costa! They had I’m on the Outside [[Looking In), Hurt So Bad, Goin’ Out Of My Head… After that came Burt Bacharach, another one I loved. They were applying their classical training, I believe, to so-called r&b, modern music. I didn’t know anything about the so-called r&b music at all, until I was about seventeen-eighteen, because that’s not where my family was leaning me. I come from the classical end of it.”
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Best regards
Heikki
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