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Famous Songwriter Reveals Secrets:
How to Write a Hit Song...and Sell It
By Tommy Boyce
Foreword by Melvin Powers
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Do you like music? Do you like to sing? Do you write poems? Do you play a musical instrument? Would you like to write a hit song? If your answer is yes to any of these questions and if you are willing to devote some time to a pleasant and fun-filled hobby, you can be successful in the exciting world of music. Your dreams of song-writing success can come true! Listen to this.
Songwriter with 22 Gold Records
Tells You How |
Tommy Boyce, an internationally well-known songwriter, has written a how-to book for the beginner or the up-and-coming songwriter called How to Write a Hit Song...and Sell It. In it he reveals professional song-writing tips and charts a course of instruction for you to follow. He tells you how he wrote six of his biggest hits and has even included the music and lyrics for you to study, sing, and play. This fabulous book, which includes many personal photos of celebrities plus royalty statements from around the world, tells it all.
Here are some of the hit songs that Tommy Boyce has written:
LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE....COME A LITTLE BIT CLOSER....I WANNA BE FREE....VALLERI....I WONDER WHAT SHE'S DOING TONIGHT....LAZY ELSIE MOLLY....BE MY GUEST....PRETTY LITTLE ANGEL EYES....ALICE LONG....I'M NOT YOUR STEPPING STONE....PEACHES 'N' CREAM....WORDS....SHE....THEME FROM THE MONKEES
Plus: The theme song for The Days of Our Lives
Plus: His country songs:
WILLIE BURGUNDY....WHO WANTS A SLIGHTLY USED WOMAN?....I WANNA BELIEVE IN LOVE
For the first time a famous songwriter shares what he has learned in his 17 years of writing hit songs year after year.
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Can the Amateur Song-Writer Reach Stardom? |
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How to Begin With or Without a Musical Background |
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Moods, Titles, and Melodies |
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Where Do Songs Come From? |
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Which Comes First, the Lyrics or the Melody? |
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What Makes a Hit Song? |
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Professional Song-Writing Tips for the Amateur or the Up-and-Coming Songwriter |
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How I Created Six of My Hit Songs |
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Evaluating Your Music |
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Re-Writing Before Presenting Your Song |
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Promoting Your Own Song |
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Copyright, ASCAP, BMI |
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The Business Side of Music |
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How to Sell Your Song in Person or by Mail |
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Tommy Boyce Songwriters' Club: You Can Be a Successful Songwriter |
| An Exciting, Profitable Song-Writing Future Can Be Yours |
Wilshire Book Company, the publisher of How to Write a Hit Song...and Sell It and other best-selling books such as Psycho-Cybernetics, Think & Grow Rich, A Guide to Rational Living, Magic of Thinking Big, and Three Magic Words, stands behind this offer. You'll be encouraged in your own writing by an almost unbelievable musical success story of Melvin Powers, publisher, Wilshire Book Company, who as a direct result of reading Tommy Boyce's book in its manuscript form, wrote a song entitled MR. SONGWRITER which became a best seller on the country western charts. What this remarkable, instructive book did for new amateur songwriter, Melvin Powers, it can do for you.
Don't delay. Get started in the fascinating world of song writing and music.
How to Write a Hit Song...and Sell It
8 1/2 x 11, 160 pages, extensive photographs and illustrations....$10.00 |
Available wherever books are sold or from the publisher. Send $10.00 (CA res. $10.93) plus $4.00 per book S/H ($20.00 per book for airmail outside USA) to:
Wilshire Book Company, 9731 Variel Avenue, Chatsworth, CA 91311-4315.
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