![]() ![]() I received a check from BMI in the amount of $63,000.00. I was thrilled that I might have a Chubby Checker record and told him, “Certainly”!įast forward a few months to royalty time…. He then asked if he could change the title, to which I said, “I don’t give a damn WHAT you want to call it!!!” I never knew what the new title was! A few months later I received a call from Chubby Checker’s manager, Jon Sheldon, asking if he could put lyrics to my song. ![]() Several weeks later I got a phone call from Dave Burgess asking if he could record my song “Monotonous Melody”. Buzz came back and I gave him a tape of it and, again, totally forgot about it. ![]() Again we all had a great laugh about the dumb thing that we’d just laid down. “What A Monotonous Melody … What a monotonous Melody” etc, etc, etc. When Buzz left the studio the musicians and I laid down a track and then we all sang the words. Several weeks later I were doing a Ricky Nelson session and his band leader, Buzz Adlam, asked if anyone has a song that he could publish in his new music publishing firm. I didn’t give him the hundred back, either!!! I threw the score pad into the back seat and forgot about the entire thing. I always kept a small score pad in the back seat and I reached for it and began to just write down some notes and titled it, “Monotonous Melody”, which I sang to him, and picked up his hundred and we had a big laugh over it. and a record came on by Wayne Raney & Lonnie Glosson titled “What This Whole World Needs Is A Lot More Jesus And A Lot Less Rock And Roll”!!! At that point I said, “I could write a better song than that in five minutes!” My friend pulled a hundred dollar bill out of his wallet and threw it down on the front seat and challenged me to do it! (BTW - the drinking took place AFTER the session!) drinking coffee to sober up after we finished a recording session. It began with a friend and I sitting in a drive in on Sunset Blvd. Here’s the incredible story in his own words, that took place in 1960: Billy Strange – a singer, guitarist, arranger, songwriter and producer – wrote the song. ![]() “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.On Billy Strange’s homepage I found this great story about the birth of the hit song “Limbo Rock”. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. “I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. “Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. ![]()
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