Remember, you have until midnight, 17 february, 2008 to enter the contest through Charlie's website! The interview will be available exclusively to be read beginning 9 January, Wednesday at K LitPark
Check out the LitPark website and their Question of the Week and join in on the discussion there as well.
LitPark is a literary playground for writers and artists of all types to discuss the creative process and to find a sense of community in what can often be solitary and competitive field. LitPark features a Question of the Week every Monday, an interview every Wednesday, and a Weekly Wrap every Friday. Interviews have included authors Neil Gaiman and Lemony Snicket; journalist Amy Wilentz; The New Yorker cover artist Peter de Seve; Auschwitz survivor, Pierre Berg; John Stewart Show regular, John Hodgman; filmmaker and founder of Create Now, Jill Gurr; School of Rock founder, Paul Green; Harcourt and Zoetrope editor, Adrienne Brodeur; and guitarist Ritchie Blackmore.
MORNING SONG written by Robin Lerner & Tommy Lee James: Charles Shaughnessy writing competition
Category: Music
The writing competition on Charles Shaughnessy's Website, inspired by MORNING SONG, written by Robin Lerner and Tommy Lee James
David Habbin recently recorded a demo version of the song MORNING SONG that I wrote with Tommy Lee James. So many of you wrote such heartfelt comments in response to David's version of this song, that his friend Charles Shaughnessy, decided to hold one of his writing competitions, inspired by the song.
You know, it's funny when a song touches someone in a way you didn't expect. I wrote MORNING SONG with Tommy Lee James in Nashville two years ago, after the Natalee Holloway incident. We've written a lot of songs together over the years and he is one of my favorite collaborators.
As a mother of a then 16 year old, Natalee's disappearance resonated with me bigtime. I couldn't stop thinking about her. I watched the coverage every night on the news. What could have happened to her? How was her mother coping? I so identified with her mother, Beth, I felt I had to write something for her. Something to give her hope. To give her solace. Even if she never heard it. Because she was living through the unimaginable horror of losing a child and not knowing what happened to her and that is something no mother should ever have to experience, yet so many do.
So MORNING SONG became a kind of anthem for that theme. The theme of loss. And how to get through it. That is why this contest will be so moving. Because we will get to hear other people's stories of loss, and share it with all of you, the fans and hearing other people's stories always helps promote healing on some level, because loss is universal. But more important, hope is universal.
I am so grateful to all of you who have written in and liked David's version of the song. Music reaches across all borders. oceans. skies. from any loss, always something is learned. I look forward to hearing what you have to say, everyone, and thanks again for your kind words and continued interest in MORNING SONG.
~ Robin
These are the links to all of the comments by all of you that led up to this writing competition, links to the videos and information on how you can enter and what to write about
* MORNING SONG: The Song by David Habbin, on YouTube click HERE
* MORNING SONG: The video between David Habbin and Charles Shaughnessy on YouTube click HERE or launch the video player below for both videos
* To read all of the details about the writing competition on Charlie's website, and how you can enter, click HERE
*David's blog about MORNING SONG on MySpace, where you can read the story behind the lyrics, click HERE
* David's blog about the video of MORNING SONG click HERE
* Charlie's blog about David's MORNING SONG video click HERE
Video of Faith Hill singing THIS KISS written by Robin Lerner
Category: Music
This Kiss was written by
Robin Lerner, Annie Roboff and Beth Nielsen Chapman
#1 Country chart three weeks #7 Pop chart 1 million singles sales album six times platinum Song of the Year 1999 Country Music Awards Single of the Year 1999 Academy Of Country Music Awards ASCAP Song of the Year 1999 Grammy nomination Best Country Song 1999 Practical Magic Soundtrack BMI Millionaire Award for 5 million spins
May 26, 2004 Robin Lerner and Faith Hill Celebrate Million-Air 'Kiss'
BMI Pop and Country Award-winning songwriter Robin Lerner was the guest of honor at a BMI-hosted Million-Air luncheon, recognizing the five million performance milestone of "This Kiss," the #1 smash for Faith Hill from her 1998 Warner Bros. album Faith. The Grammy-, CMA- and ACM-praised song. which Lerner co-wrote with Beth Nielsen Chapman and Annie Roboff, recently entered the list of the top 100 songs in BMI's catalog of more than 4.5 million compositions.
Based on an average length of three minutes, one million broadcast performances are the equivalent of 50,000 hours or 5.7 years of continuous airplay; played consecutively, "This Kiss" would last over 28 years.
Pictured at BMI Nashville are BMI's Joyce Rice, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Faith Hill, Robin Lerner, Annie Roboff and BMI's David Preston. Photo by Kay Williams
