Post by the Scribe on Feb 28, 2021 6:44:37 GMT
Linda Ronstadt interview
Linda Ronstadt - A Dream Is A Wish - Cinderella (2020)
David Pack
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A July 2020 birthday tribute to Linda by the song's producer/co-writer David Pack - Who shares the same birthday!
What an honor and joy to work with one of the greatest singers and most beautiful & brilliant people of all time, Linda, for this mid-90’s project.
Disney asked me to take a 1-minute song written for the original 1950 animated classic and create a 3-1/2 min. pop song for Linda - so I had to write a 2nd verse and 2nd chorus, and add a bridge, outro, etc.
I got with super orchestrator-arranger David Hamilton and we composed a really super-playful string arrangement recorded with orchestra in Nashville.
Thanks to former Oceanway Studios Hollywood owner-engineer Allen Sides, who co-produced & engineered, and our pal George Massenburg who engineered Linda’s vocal in Tucson and mixed the final recording.
The sax solo is the great Gerald Albright. Keys: my dear friend and beloved keyboard genius Greg Phillinganes.
Linda: the dinner with you at El Charro was one of the most memorable and fun times of my life. And I’ll never forget how hard you tried for this song to be a duet between you and me—as Jimmy Webb once said: that idea went “adios, but we came pretty close!”
~ David
Video Tribute to Linda created & edited by David Pack & Russell Wiener
c. 1949, 1995 Walt Disney Music Company (ASCAP)
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