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Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge. A great informative and resourceful site. I now have the confidence to continue with my writing. Jim Fiegen - Sun, Jan 8th, 2012 10:52 AM PST Shortcuts for Film & TV is answering all the hard questions I've not found answers for anywhere else. Thanks for sharing it all with us. Jim Fiegen San Marcos CA Tim Wright - Sat, Jan 7th, 2012 8:03 AM PST Robin, Wow!!! Wow!!! Wow!!! I just listened to "California Girl" for the first time. What a great marriage of melody, lyric and instrumentation. Talk about evoking emotion! The way you describe the fish being silver arrows, the blood red sunset, eating Sushi for breakfast... puts me right there on the beach. Brian Wilson must love this song!!! I love how your chorus lifts and then resolves with the memory of how you were his "California Girl." Your voice is so beautiful. I hear the longing in this song for that brief moment in time...for that perfect love. Oh, how I wish time could stand still as well. Thanks for the 3 minute trip to Venice Beach ( I once surfed there in 1969 - early morning before the fog burned off.) Yes, men were walking on the moon that same week and a hillbilly from Indiana was trying to figure out what Brian Wilson had been writing songs about. Tim Thank you so much, Tim, for ALL your kind words... especially welcome from a songwriter as good as you are! - Robin Tim Wright - Sat, Jan 7th, 2012 6:18 AM PST Robin, I kind of thought you might be a lady due to your kind responses to me. It seems that guys don't normally take that much time to soothe another man's bruised ego. Thanks! Got your books. Love your website. I should've been visiting it prior to my barrage of questions to you! You are very kind indeed to have written those responses. In this business of "dog eat dog," (sorry for the cliche') the responses you've written to me stand out like a beacon of hope - artistically and simply from a human to human standpoint. You are one who truly wants to help others. Thanks! 59 and tryin' - Tim Wright Cho - Tue, Dec 13th, 2011 7:46 AM PST I read your article, "Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting," and I must say it is the most concise process outline I've read to date. Thank you for sharing this. Michelle - Sun, Dec 11th, 2011 9:12 PM PST I wanted to know the song that was sung at the end if the show where all the moms and kids would sit together and sing. My daughter is now 26 and I remember her running to get me to sing it with her every day and I cant remember what it was or the words and would really like to have it now...... Hi Michelle - I don't know the song that was used at the end of the show but you might be able to get a copy on one of the four VHS tapes that was released by the Disney Channel. You can sometimes find them on eBay. YouTube has a copy of the opening song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-m_N5DXjxE Check to see if someone has posted the closing song there. George T - Sat, Dec 10th, 2011 10:51 PM PST I read your Hit Songwriting book and now I'm deep into the Film & TV songwriting book. I NEVERTHOUGHT ABOUT THIS STUFF!!! But it's so obvious when you start watching and listening. Thank you SO much for makign me LOOK and LISTEN! annalise - Sat, Dec 10th, 2011 10:06 PM PST Your books have changed my song writing. I used to struggle to write a song. Now I just use the shortcuts and I find its easy to write really GOOD songs!!! Thank YOU! Lisa - Sat, Jul 23rd, 2011 6:42 PM PDT I loved your 80's show.. i would exercise and then cuddle with my mom for the closing song :) Mary - Tue, Jul 19th, 2011 6:47 PM PDT @LJeffcoat: I have the lyrics to Just You and Me. I saved them from a January 1984 Disney Channel magazine. However, I don't have the music. Do you still need them? LJeffcoat - Mon, Jul 11th, 2011 3:51 PM PDT I have been looking for the lyrics to Just You and Me, Kid by Robin Frederick but seem to be spinning my wheels! Can anybody help me? Myreete - Wed, Jul 6th, 2011 8:37 PM PDT I think writing is something that comes with shear determination. There may be some people who are born with a natural gift of lyrics, but I am not one of them. I looked up many many sites about all of this information and I must say, Thank you for seemingly taking your time with me. Very informative. Thank you. I just hope my determination takes control of me sometime soon; I have too many thoughts to write down with a rhyme involved for it not to. jon puhl - Wed, Jun 29th, 2011 4:33 PM PDT Robin, I have been looking all over for the song "Just you and me, kid". I am getting married on July 23, and I wanted to use the song for my mother-son dance. Can you direct me in the right direction? I used to each the show with my mother when I was young, and she would sing the song to me. It would be a great treat and surprise for her. Hi Jon - Unfortunately I don't have a copy of the recording myself and, to my knowledge, it has never been released on a CD of any kind. However, at Amazon, there are episodes of the show "Just You and Me Kid" available on VHS. Each includes, I think, four episodes. You could take the audio outputs of the VCR and record the song on to cassette or into your computer where you could then burn it to CD. Just be aware that it's a short song. I think the longest version runs about a minute. Hope that helps! - Robin Guillermo - Tue, Jun 28th, 2011 5:38 AM PDT Hi Robin, your book helps me to improve everything about my music every day, I have no words to decribe how much I love this book, I am constanly reading it over and over again to keep my mind on track! This book (114 stsf film&tv) is a tool for everyone's writing music, it doesn't matter if you are a pro or amateur, it will help you to understand what is all about music writing. Thank you very very much Robin. Thank you VERY much! You made my day. BTW, if you have an Amazon.com account, I'd love it if you'd leave a review there. It's a big help and reaches LOTS of songwriters. - Robin Barry Nystrom - Tue, Jun 14th, 2011 5:26 PM PDT Saw you on Taxi. You were the best guest host on Taxi live! St.Claire - Mon, Jun 6th, 2011 3:55 PM PDT Hello, Nice Job, your a source of inspiration. Succes. Jorgen Olsen - Tue, May 31st, 2011 6:26 PM PDT I found out about you about fifteen years ago on public access tv and you showed a video of you singing 'The Heart in Motion.' So since then that's still one of my favorite songs. Do you remember being on public access back then? There was another woman on the show who read poetry and ever since then I've been wanting to know who she is. Also, if you still have that video clip of "The Heart in Motion" could you post it on Youtube? It would be a great joy to see it again. Hi Jorgen - Yes, I do remember doing that show. Thank you so much for letting me know that someone else remembers it! I have a video of it but not in a format I can play. Maybe I'll try to get a transfer to DVD and see what I can do about posting it on YouTube. If I can find the video I may be able to let you know the name of the poet, too. Thanks for your post! - Robin Kara Robinson - Sun, May 29th, 2011 2:41 PM PDT This really helped me i have always wanted to write a song but every time i try it they either make no sence or i don't like them but now i know that as long as it has helped me express my thougts and feelings then its good even in other people don't think so Shanequa Armour - Wed, May 25th, 2011 2:55 PM PDT Thanks for helping me write a song I think you guys are really great It was very easy writing it I jus t don't know how to finish my song Eric - Thu, May 19th, 2011 3:27 PM PDT Really think your book is great. Also appreciated your TAXI video session back awhile. Eric Tommy Hogan - Wed, May 18th, 2011 6:43 AM PDT Thank you for the fantastic song writing lesson. I have played guitar for 10 years but always seem to struggle with lyrics. I did a quick search for "song writing" on goole abd this was top of the list ( where it belongs i mite add ) Great site and best of luck for the future Tommy Hogan dennis france - Sun, May 15th, 2011 4:53 PM PDT great site, my son is playing guitar for the last 15 months and will be writting a song and playing it at the end of the week with some other day campers at a summer camp called dayjams. c doggy - Fri, May 13th, 2011 12:52 PM PDT hi my name is c doggy i'm an artist. I need a good songwriter to teach me how to be perfect in songwriting.and i also need an advice on stage performance and music marketing but most especially i need a sponsor how will sponsor me Maggie - Tue, May 10th, 2011 6:18 PM PDT Hi, my name is maggie and this website is awesome. I can write songs and express myself. your advice is going to make me famous one day. scyntoria fuller - Tue, May 10th, 2011 9:31 AM PDT loving this website Next page >> |