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The movie soundtrack album, One-Trick Pony, by Paul Simon, enters the Billboard album chart.
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Paul Simon : The horn part for Late In The Evening was written by Dave Grusin. It's as famous as the song. Maybe more famous than the song. And I thought it was a great horn part. It always sounded like kind of mariachi thing in the middle of a track that had a Mystery Train kind of groove to it. When I first heard it, it said, "It's great! But it's not what the song's supposed to be." But it was so great that I said, "I guess it is what the song is going to be."
How The Heart Approaches What It Yearns has a nice delicacy to it with Eric Gale playing nylon-string guitar. It's a wonderful solo. He played it on my nylon-string guitar; he doesn't ever play nylon string. And it has an evocative lyric. To me, the lyric on this song does feel like it fits the character of Jonah Levin in the One-Trick Pony movie. But the 10/8 time signature probably doesn't. The Belvedere Hotel in the opening was opposite AAndR Recording Studios on 48th Street in New York.
I always thought the music of Jonah would have been better for a love song. Well, it is a love song, in a way, about a love of music. I wrote it for the movie and I like it quite a lot but I don't know if it's the kind of melody or music that character, Jonah Levin, would have made. But I think it's a really good song and I think it stands up independently. I think the music is interesting harmonically. I was pleased with the melody. It wraps itself up nicely. It's a Brazilian type of melody. And it's a nice track with tasty percussion by Ralph McDonald.
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How The Heart Approaches What It Yearns has a nice delicacy to it with Eric Gale playing nylon-string guitar. It's a wonderful solo. He played it on my nylon-string guitar; he doesn't ever play nylon string. And it has an evocative lyric. To me, the lyric on this song does feel like it fits the character of Jonah Levin in the One-Trick Pony movie. But the 10/8 time signature probably doesn't. The Belvedere Hotel in the opening was opposite AAndR Recording Studios on 48th Street in New York.
I always thought the music of Jonah would have been better for a love song. Well, it is a love song, in a way, about a love of music. I wrote it for the movie and I like it quite a lot but I don't know if it's the kind of melody or music that character, Jonah Levin, would have made. But I think it's a really good song and I think it stands up independently. I think the music is interesting harmonically. I was pleased with the melody. It wraps itself up nicely. It's a Brazilian type of melody. And it's a nice track with tasty percussion by Ralph McDonald.
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