Hollies in the 70's

[jdhogg]

'70s BRIT ROCK SONGS a la Hollies, Animals, Troggs, Yardbirds, etc., are needed by a successful Music Publisher who's gotten tons of great Film/TV placements for many TAXI members. Original songs only and universal lyrics are necessary. No instrumentals please! Vocal and instrumental performances must be top-notch! They offer a non-exclusive, 50/50 split deal - you keep your original copyrights. Broadcast quality needed (great home recordings are fine). Please submit one to three songs online or per CD, include lyrics. All submissions will be screened on a YES/NO BASIS ONLY - NO CRITIQUES FROM TAXI - and must be received no later than Thursday, June 24, 2010.
TAXI # Y100624BR



70's?

[Casey H]

'70s BRIT ROCK SONGS a la Hollies, Animals, Troggs, Yardbirds, etc., are needed by a successful Music Publisher who's gotten tons of great Film/TV placements for many TAXI members. Original songs only and universal lyrics are necessary. No instrumentals please! Vocal and instrumental performances must be top-notch! They offer a non-exclusive, 50/50 split deal - you keep your original copyrights. Broadcast quality needed (great home recordings are fine). Please submit one to three songs online or per CD, include lyrics. All submissions will be screened on a YES/NO BASIS ONLY - NO CRITIQUES FROM TAXI - and must be received no later than Thursday, June 24, 2010.
TAXI # Y100624BR



70's?

I've been wondering about this listing too. Those bands were much more known in the 60's. The Hollies did have 1-2 hits in the 70's but overall that list is a 60's list. Someone should call Taxi and ask for clarification.

Casey

[jdhogg]

I'd like taxi to clarify how this happened.

Do the libraries write them and taxi put them up or do taxi write them for the libraries? I guess the libraries write them.

[paulshamell]

Take a look at the "submit your music" page version of this listing. I think it was changed to "60s" there, just a day or two after the listing originally came along.

As an aside to this, I was musing on what I've always thought to be the simplicity of the chorus to "Carrie Ann". At a glance It reads kind of like a placeholder lyric that never got replaced.

But, I realized its very cleverly constructed-
The first and last words rhyme (master of the obvious!), but it keeps rhyming and/or alliterating as it moves into the sentence from both ends, like a palindrome.

Its an abcdefggfedcba scheme, in a single sentence.... Whether it was that way by accident, or on purpose, it'll never sound like a throwaway line to me again

[Casey H]

The way I understand it is the libraries define the listing requirements with Taxi A&R helping them as best as they can to clarify what they want.

Unless you contact Taxi, you won't know what the scoop is here. It could be that those acts had some early 70's hits and that's more the sound being sought. Or it could be a typo... The Hollies had a hit with Long Cool Woman in the early 70's, for example, and that had a different sound than their mid-60's hits. If you are concerned and are thinking of submitting, give Taxi a shout.

Casey

PS I just read Paul's post after I posted this... Looks like problem solved... Yay! I have a 60's a la Hollies in my catalog too!