Ep. 45: Allee Willis

And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan

And The Writer Is

Music Creation, Artists, Music Interviews, Education, Interviews, Songwriters, Music, Songwriting

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2018

⏱️ 85 minutes

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This week we’ve partnered with the Songwriters Hall of Fame to bring you our next episode! Our guest is a one-woman creative musical think-tank, a multi-disciplinary artist and visionary thinker whose range of imagination and productivity knows no bounds. This GRAMMY, Emmy and Tony award-winning and nominated songwriter’s hits include the seemingly ubiquitous "September" and "Boogie Wonderland" by Earth, Wind & Fire, “I'll Be There for You” (the Friends theme song), as well as the co-authored Oprah Winfrey-produced Tony and GRAMMY-winning musical, The Color Purple. She has written for artists across many genres, including Cher, Diana Ross, Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock, Bonnie Raitt, Tina Turner, Boy George, Patti LaBelle, Justin Timberlake and more. She is an advocate for songwriter’s rights being credited as the first pop artist to address Congress on artist rights in cyberspace. Our guest most recently completed writing, recording, producing, directing and animating “The D,” a song for her hometown of Detroit. She has also started performing a series of sold-out one-woman shows, combining her songs with her comedy, art, videos and technology. We are honored to introduce this 2018 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, And The Writer is… Allee Willis!

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0:00.0	Welcome to season 3 of and the writer is I am your host Ross Golan. I've written with
0:15.7	hundreds of artists and writers over the years and my favorite part of each
0:19.2	session is the first hour when we catch up about life, the industry, politics, composition, whatever.
0:26.6	So this is a journey of learning why people write songs, how people write songs, and most importantly
0:32.1	who the people are who write the songs.
0:35.0	I'm producing this with the Great Joe London, Big Deal music publishing, and Megahouse
0:39.6	music management. If you want to listen to the songs we discuss in this podcast, follow us on our
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0:57.4	please rate and subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
1:01.2	or whatever your preferred podcast is in the sight.
1:04.0	May I have your attention please. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get
1:15.2	10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk
1:20.1	home in the rain again. Trains, now on Uber.
1:25.0	Tees and C's apply.
1:27.0	Check the Uber app. Welcome to And The writer is.
1:32.0	We are excited about today's episode as we partnered with the
1:36.2	Song Writers Hall of Fame for an episode series that will be included in each season of
1:42.1	Hand the Writer is, where we will interview a songwriter
1:45.8	Hall of Fame and Duffy or Starlight winner. On today's episode we will be
1:51.1	interviewing the amazing Ali will. I want to take a few minutes though. I want to start
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