Hi Imaze,"Simply put", (as Iīve ever able to do that)? - I can say this:
Yes, there have always been an music consultant or more. In the earlier years up to the China Special in 1986 it was George Whyle. I doesnīt know any info about him really, but heīs kind of an Idol of me, since he have had my favorite job. LOL...
After him Iīve seen the names on the credits have changes quite often actually. Perhaps thereīs room for my name in the future...?
Well. Back to the...(Future)? - I mean the other questions you have.
Allthough, he has a Music Consulant, David DOES CHOOSE FOR HIMSELF on the songs!!!
Itīs pretty obvious. Off Course, he wants to use the songs he feel approperate, which is often some songs from his favorite artist/composers etc. (previous alot of Gershwin) than he connects to the Illusion.
Like Stephen Bishopīs One More Night is a song that made him come up with the idea of the story for that particular Illusion.
As for Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel theyīre both his favorite artists as well as having a perfect style of music for his types of Magic. Simple a perfect combination!
Well, he have used more rap and techno lately!!! - But that wouldnīt have fitted so good several years ago though.
To be able to use the song he wants, he have to purchase the rights for those who own the rights.
Pay for 5 Phil Collins songs, and get the 6th one for free???
Eh, you donīt need an 6th sence to not "buy" that statement...
...But Seriously - If you first got a song approved at a good price, itīs easier to get "rights-deals" for the same artist again I guess.
Anyways, if David wants to used one particular song. Heīs going to buy the rights o.k.!!!
Heīs probable not cheap about it, so he could had dropped Holdridgeīs "Flying-music", simply because Bachīs "Air" is SO MUCH CHEAPER to use instead!!!
Please notice that his choise of film scores are often from out of print soundtracks from the middle 80īs LOL. Not planned that way though, but sometimes it feels like it.
I would say that Collins and Gabriels style of music they posses are perfect for Magic, but remember that itīs not just because of this heīs using them.
Phil Collins is his favorite artist, and I believe itīs becasue of the good music in general from Phil, and not BECAUSE itīs good "Magic-Music"...
Since Collins/Gabriel is both pre-genesis, they could perhaps give out and cd-collection together, and call it Collins/Gabriel:
The David Copperfield Collection?
LOL. The have enough money to not need giving out more collection CDs.
Well, thatīs no reason not do it though.
Iīve given out so many replies now that I should stop?
(Perhaps this one though, but I feel like writing today)...
Or as for Collection Cdīs... David has only one "So Far...(So Good") - But for example "that" Sheena Easton song could perhaps be included in the next Sound of Magic?
So whatīs the conclusion?
Letīs say it like this. In the China Special David most likely choosed to use music from John Williamsī Indiana Jones The Temple of Doom Soundtrack himself.
And not because of the "left-over discount" from the "Jaws", "Superman" and "The Towering Inferno" deals made with Williams from before.
Off Course, Davidīs too busy for making the arrangements for buying the rights himself, so I guess thatīs one of George Whyleīs previous jobs...
And what a job that was! LOL...
o.k. Then it comes to make it fit for the TV Specials. Often, including that Indiana Jones score, it was edited and conducted in a different way to be perfect for Davids Illusions (and impossible for the "DC Music Collectors" like myself to be "Satisfied")...
So again, the Music Consultant George Whyle had to make new arrangements so David got an edited different conducted version.
Iīm not really good in conducting though, either in music or trains...whatever(train it would be). Even the Terror one...But I can deliver conduct in a good way for a long time.
As LONG as my replies!!! - ...keeps going on the right tracks.
But as I said, Iīm not a good "train-conductor", so I get off tracks all the time by the end.
You can compare me as an album cause I got alot of tracks to choose from, and I usually last for about 74 minutes to end this...
I guess it would be much better for you readers that I kept myself on just one track, (but I donīt have just "one track mind"), and "read right through me here", that would just take a few minutes.
But hey...Instead of an Album. Would that make me "single"?;-)
LOL. Check out that "Conan Oībrien-hair" ?:-)
So whoīs that "other" famous TV Talkshow host? :- )???
Anyways. If anyone could read right through me in just about 5 minutes that I just have a "one track mind", probable make sense to make me "single" for a long time.
Again, hard to be long than my replies though.
Am I going to compare myself with a dobbel-album tonight?
Well, an album is enough. The CD version off course. The LP-version has two sides, which doesnīt fit me, because I simply canīt change...(sides)?
Again beeing a "LP-singel" is the worst you could be compared too! Then you have this Great side of you people hear over and over again, and then usually this "Bad side", so-called "side B(ad)").
Well, it would have been great to have got "both side of the story" from Collins himself, but I hope that my info here has been correct. As "long" as youīre satisfied, I am. Talking about "am". "after midnight" is passed a long time ago. My reply is obviously a "long" album, Iīm probable playing on the last track tonight...
So...so, "long" I guess. - No(t) futher! ...informations here.
Endre"The D(efinetly).C(oming). "MusiC(onsultant").Guy"
P.S. (Who said I had a "one track mind" anyway)...?
Off Course, Iīm often thinking about that..."Job" of beeing D.C.īs Music Consultant.
THATīS AN JOB-OPPORTUNITY IīM NOT GONNA BLOW!!!
...And if I did so, I would probable get on my knees again...and p(r)ay until I got it? My Bragging would probable be about a mouthfull of all kinds of stuff in bad taste... As working hard, fast, do a "handfull" of jobs at the same time, and be a real player...team-player and off course very "deeply" comitted "All the Way" (DC Music Sinatra-way)? - Yes, sinatra way, which is "My Way".
Then it stops for us from NO(r)WAY... Cause all though I know David is very busy, and needs helps from his Crew on different things, Iīll never be his...
"RIGHT HAND MAN". Itīs not because Iīm "left-handed", which I actually am. Iīm even stronger in my right hand! Go figure?
What does that prove? - Again, that Iīm single??? In that case, Iīm indeed an LP-single.
Now thereīs my side B...(IG TIME)! I guess I can change after all. Or is anyone taking this too seriously...? I rather should say: Is anyone still reading this?
Well, I guess itīs really late, Iīm kinda tired...What:-O...U2)!
And Iīm not feeling much more creative right now. All I can "think" of "right now", (exept Aretha Franklin-DCsong and DC Music Group Van Halen)is to "Jump" (LOL, my mind was all ready there you know) in Bed!!!
B-E-D. Thatīs it! No more Mr. Imaginative tonight. There no place like the bed to...Relax...(donīt do it)?
Hey, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, but Iīm going to bed.
Itīs not even related to DC Music, but that songs sure seems to be related to the type of side B(ull****) has to offer. George Michael is DC Music AND who know what: But please have "faith" in me. If Iīm a "one track mind" person right now...(Van Halen-person)?, itīs certainly not track #3... (Iamaze have to feel the Terror Train taking off here).
Talking about George Michael track #3 in DC Music. (Not "faith"-album)...
"They wonīt go when I go". Well, I guess most of you have gone long time ago. I should have had George (not Michael), but Whyle here to do the conducted edting here, because this is getting too hot for (any) TV...(E)Spesial(ly) if I begin writing about Michael (not George), but Jackson here!!!...Until next time, o.k.? (That will be more of a "Thriller" than Terror Train"). "BAD" would have been a properate DC Music song right now...Iīm TIRED...(of Van Halen links)... Itīs very late in "EUROPE" rig.., about this time. LOL, itīs even late in the U.S. soon.
Hey, the "Final Countown" (couldnīt resist)have to be...(or not to be):
Iīm not the Music Gay... BUT
Endre"The D(oing).C(ontinuance). Music Guy"
...same place, about same time tomorrow with Michael Jackson.
STAY TUNED, STAY STRAIGHT, STAY "ALIVE...& KICKING". ("Simple Minds", simply put in by my one track mind, which is obvious for everyone that itīs link-connections)!!! Thatīs my kick!
I donīt mind get a kick out of...that, but please donīt kick me whyle, I mean, while Iīm down.
I will get up tomorrow.
"First" I have to go, perhaps crawl to bed.
"Secondly" I donīt have to do anything, because I have written my final signature twice now!! So this will be my..
Third Time. ...Simply put, any fourth time is out of the question! And so is my reply. Way out of your questions!!!
In that case, itīs over. The "Defense rest"! (And so will I hopefully soon)... "Itīs the end(...re-version)of the World" (as we know it)
THE END...
...re"The D(iscussion).C(losed). Music Guy"