The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
Big Mama Thornton (“Hound Dog”)
John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
A second single, “Quit Playing Games (With My Heart),” was selected from the batch that had been recorded back in June 1995 at Cheiron.
John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
the group managed to put out a third album, the Motown-inspired Flowers.
John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
memoir, Bands, Brands, and Billions, “As I told the Jordache brothers, their name was all over the news that night.”
John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
“As Long as You Love Me,” “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back),” and “I’ll Never Break Your Heart,” all enormous hits.
John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
“Shack Up,” a song by Banbarra,
John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
“Back Stabbers” and “Love Train” for the O’Jays, and “Me and Mrs. Jones” for Billy Paul—all from 1972—and followed by “You Make Me Feel Brand New” (1973) for the Stylistics and “The Love I Lost” (1973) for Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, there was no stopping Gamble and Huff until “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now” (1979)
John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
“Only Girl (In the World)”
John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
“cultural technology.” In a 2011 address at Stanford Business School,