The Hello there and welcome once again to our secret portal into the dark and dangerous netherworld of

songwriting. I guess this time around is a piano prodigy, a jazz composer,

musical arranger and for a stretch from the late 70s to the mid 80s a purveyor of chart making pop and soul

it's the incredibly gifted Patrice Russian how did you discover Patrice's music

brine well I was thinking about that and I realized it was actually via the movie Big.

Right, okay. I'm sure you're all pretty familiar with that perennial family favorite,

and you may remember there's a scene in Tom Hank's apartments where he and Elizabeth Perkins are goofing around on a trampoline.

Well, the song that accompanies that scene really caught my ear as a youngster and it turned out to be

Forget Me Nots, which is probably the song for which Patrice is best known.

In fact, it's instantly recognizable groove has been sampled a great deal, most notably by

Will Smith for the title track to his 1998 blockbuster movie Men in Black.

Make your neck work.

And also by George Michael, who refashioned it for his hit single Fast Love in 1996.

So yeah, that was my in as far as Patrice's music was concerned and I later got into straight from the heart

the album from which Forget Me Nots came and I've remained the fan to this day.

Me too old friend. We were

considerable keyboard skills close up, weren't we?

We were. That must be six or seven years ago now that we went down to the jazz

cafe in London. Oh five I think.

God.

Were we ever that young?

And yeah, what can you say?

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