I Wanna Rock with Q. Edition Part 2

Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia

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Music, Music History, Music Commentary

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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What does a music producer do? If his name is Quincy Jones, a little bit of everything: conducting, arranging, composing. Assembling teams of ace session musicians. Sometimes, even picking a catchy title and telling an artist to go write a song about it— would “Thriller” have worked as well if it had been called “Starlight”? Quincy Jones was pop’s Renaissance Man, and he could not be limited either by genre or by role. He played in jazz bands…produced teen pop hits…discovered young talent…scored Hollywood films…helped invent Yacht Rock and Yacht Soul…even released hit albums under his own name featuring cavalcades of guest vocalists. And he worked with so! many! legends! Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Little Richard, Lesley Gore, Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan … and all that happened before he even met a former child star named Michael Jackson and helped him produce the best-selling album in history. No wonder only Quincy had the clout to wrangle the superstars for the recording of “We Are the World.” Join Chris Molanphy as he tells the story of the music man who truly did it all and is known affectionately by the letter Q. He made the world a better place for you and me. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis. Host Chris Molanphy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.9	CODieK slash Special Offer. Welcome back to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart History from Slate magazine about the hits from Coast to Coast.
0:44.4	I'm Chris Mulanphy, chart analyst, pop critic, and writer of Slate's Why Is This Song Number
0:49.9	One series.
0:51.4	On our last episode, we talked about the rich, varied, and
0:55.6	exceptionally busy career of Quincy Jones, arranger, conductor, composer,
1:01.9	producer, and the secret sauce behind hits from Ray Charles to Leslie Gore,
1:07.8	Frank Sinatra to Aretha Franklin, The Brothers Johnson to Shaka Khan.
1:13.0	And all that was before he even met Michael Jackson.
1:18.0	We're now at the end of the 70s,
1:20.0	when the man whom the music industry fondly calls Q, is about to produce Jackson's first
1:28.2	adult solo album and change the parameters of pop.
1:34.0	By the time he met Quincy Jones,
1:37.0	Michael Jackson had already been famous for the better part of a decade, back to pre-adolescence and he had
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