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I have clearance to pitch to a major label.
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:52 am
by bitman
A friend has a very high contact at a very big major label.He heard my country stuff and got me clearance to send in my CD, lyrics and some sort of a letter. The stuff is all copyrighted but not published.Q: Scince I'm not pitching myself, but my songs, Is it still called a bio? Q: And for those who know, what besides good spelling and professionalism, should be in a cover letter that would go along with this package?:Ron
Re: I have clearance to pitch to a major label.
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:28 am
by hummingbird
Hi, since you have clearance to submit I would:1) write a personally addressed cover letter to the person involved, and I would make it very brief. "Dear Mr X/Ms Y, thank you very much for agreeing to hear my work. I have enclosed a demo CD with three country songs, and lyric sheets, for your review. (Insert a short sentence re your publishing/recording credits, if any.) I appreciate your consideration."Make sure your full contact name, address, email & telephone number are on the letter, each lyric sheet, and the CD label. In addition, your demo CD should be 3 song maximum, put your very best uptempo hit song first - in fact I would do 3 uptempo, or 2 uptempo and 1 mid-tempo, and stay away from ballads. Make sure the intros are short. (If you were planning to send a 15-song CD, I wouldn't recommend it. If you do, pick out the top three songs and indicate on the letter which tracks they should listen to. Put the track # & the song length under the title on the lyric sheet)Best of luckHummin'bird
Re: I have clearance to pitch to a major label.
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:57 pm
by og
Way to go, bitman!
Re: I have clearance to pitch to a major label.
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:44 am
by edteja
Hey, best of luck with the pitch.
Re: I have clearance to pitch to a major label.
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:40 am
by bitman
Thanks everyone for the wisdom and encoragement.The package went FedEx today.And it's all TAXI reject songs.(That's all I have) Sigh....:Ron
Re: I have clearance to pitch to a major label.
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 2:27 pm
by edteja
There is a new song in that somewhere, Ron. I was asked to pitch my songsI looked at what I'd brought alongNothing but Taxi rejects....
Re: I have clearance to pitch to a major label.
Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:27 pm
by og
Though they'd been declinedHell, I thought they sounded fine,and I figured, "What the heck".
Re: I have clearance to pitch to a major label.
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:52 am
by edteja
So I burned them on a new CDTossed in a one-sheet that told of meAnd printed out the lyrics of rock and sex.
Re: I have clearance to pitch to a major label.
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 12:55 pm
by og
And I hollered to the rafters "I got nothin' left to lose,it's time to take a chance and shoot the moon!"The worst thing that can happen is they tell me "no" again, and I'll look for someone else to hear my tunes.
Re: I have clearance to pitch to a major label.
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 2:11 am
by edteja
That must be our chorus, OG. Got some music?