Those 60 seconds would become the basis for “Satisfaction.”Ħ.
Instead of going back to sleep, Richards dragged himself out of his bed, picked up his trusty acoustic, and recorded about 60 seconds of the guitar part. S: Speaking of mid-slumber song inspiration, on May 9th, 1965, Keith Richards woke up in the middle of the night with a riff in his head. E: One of the greatest songs ever written was originally an ode to protein, written when a young Paul McCartney woke up with a little tune in his head, picked it out on the piano until the real lyrics came to him quite some time later-“Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away.”-McCartney made do with the nonsensical lyrics: “Scrambled eggs, oh my baby, how I love your legs.”Īll: “Scrambled eggs, oh, my baby, how I love your legs.”ĥ. Jean Shepherd, who wrote the book “A Christmas Story” was based on and narrated the movie version.Ĥ. It’s long been rumored though not confirmed that “A Boy Named Sue” was inspired by a friend of Silverstein’s who also had an ambiguous name. Shel Silverstein-yes, the children’s author-wrote one of Cash’s biggest hits. M: Kristofferson isn’t the only off-beat guy to write songs for the Man in Black. Either way, the song “Sunday Morning Coming Down” was a number-one hit for Cash the following year.ģ. Kristofferson stepped out of the chopper with a beer in hand, and announced, “I thought this might be the best way to get a song to you-bring it right out of the sky.” Kristofferson, however, says that Cash wasn’t even at home when the helicopter arrived. In 1969, as Johnny Cash later recalled it, he and June Carter Cash were at their Nashville-area home, when a helicopter landed on their lawn. A: Let’s start our playlist with Kris Kristofferson, the renowned singer-songwriter-slash-history-professor-slash-janitor-slash-helicopter-pilot who combined three of those five skills into one amazing songwriting pitch. S: And that’s the first of many fascinating songwriting stories that we will be talking about today.Ģ. The song was written by polio-stricken Doc, who scribbled them down at his own wedding after watching a line of able-bodied men dance with his bride, a Broadway dancer. At least that's what happened to Doc Pomus of The Drifters when he was writing “Save the Last Dance For Me.”Ī: The lyrics encourages the girl to dance and have fun, but also to remember that she’s coming home with him at the end of the night. M: Writing songs can take a lot of work, and sometimes inspiration strikes at the most random times.Į: And all you have on hand is a wedding invitation and a pen to write your thoughts down.
Together we’re The Gregory Brothers, and this is mental_floss on YouTube.ġ.
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