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Serendipity Doo-Dah #2
True Stories of Happy Musical Accidents | Book Two
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Praise
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“Edward Faine has written a well-researched, breezy romp through twentieth-century popular recorded musical history. Each enlightening chapter is about a different famous song, scholarly anecdotal factoids written in an amusing down-home style. Musicians can be serendipitous by nature, and often telepathic as well. There’s a synergy when a hit song, for whatever reason, gels or when a jam ends at the same moment. Herein are twenty-eight vignettes of those ‘happy accidents’ in music that are always so surprising and satisfying.” — VALENTINE SLIM (aka Christian Pestalozzi) “Edward Allan Faine once again provides the background to those ‘True Stories of Musical Accidents.’ There is plenty to interest those who love popular song, whether it be by Jerome Kern, Sammy Cahn and Jules Styne or Phil Collins and Madonna. Plus, with Faine writing, jazz is never far away. But the genre is immaterial, it’s the songs and the stories behind them as well as the author’s own input that makes this such interesting reading. I’ll give you a few questions, but you’ll have to read the book to find out the answers: Which Broadway showstopper was rejected as a beer commercial before achieving immortality on the Great White Way? Which instrumental hits began life as ‘B-sides’? Which hit songs benefited from drastic changes to the original tempo?” — LANCE LIDDLE
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