I got all teary this time. Thanks GetTheRightVote
Here is the story about writing it and the singers, muscicians.. Super interesting from start to finish..
By Fred Goldring.Entrepreneur, Strategist, Musician & Lawyer
But I was getting really nervous about this election, sensing a palpable and growing discouragement and worrisome apathy among even previously strong supporters of the president. People were becoming disillusioned from the constant barrage of negativity and mudslinging, and the incredible enthusiasm of 2008 was dormant and diffused. The bar had been set so unrealistically and impossibly high, that there was an unfair focus on what hadn't been achieved by the president in his first term, rather than the significant gains that had been made in the face of unyielding obstinance from the right. It was also evident that the campaign slogan "Forward" was everywhere you turned, but I did not feel it was connecting with people on any visceral level.
So about two weeks ago, a song popped into my head in the middle of the night, and literally woke me up. I went downstairs, grabbed a pad and a pen, wrote down the lyrics to the chorus, and went over to my piano before I forgot the tune. Inspired by the genius of what will.i.am had done last time combining Obama's speech and music (but this time layering the speech into the song rather than writing the song around the speech), I re-watched the president's DNC speech on YouTube, got some more ideas for lyrics, and wrote down what I thought were the appropriate sections of his speech to incorporate.
The next morning, as a reality check I called some well-known hit songwriter friends who had also been very early supporters of the president, Danielle Brisebois and Gregg Alexander (they are also the band The New Radicals) to play my song idea over the phone. I was encouraged when they suggested I come over to Danielle's and her husband, Nick Lashley's, home studio later that day to try to flesh out a full song.
MUCH MORE..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fred-goldring/forward-a-new-song-and-vi_b_2022857.html
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