Songsmith
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to AirNManky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm |
| 0:08.7 | and Mild. |
| 0:13.0 | Our world is full of the unexplainable. |
| 0:16.3 | And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, |
| 0:22.2 | just waiting for us to explore. |
| 0:25.4 | Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's. |
| 0:36.9 | There's a lot that goes into making a hit song. |
| 0:39.6 | It needs to launch at the right time, with the right promotional team behind it, and it |
| 0:44.0 | has to be performed by the right musician. |
| 0:46.6 | Dolly Parton, for example, wrote her number one hit, Jolene, the same day she wrote another |
| 0:51.3 | well-known tune in 1973. |
| 0:54.5 | But despite that other song also hitting number one, it wouldn't become the classic it |
| 0:58.7 | is today for another 20 years. |
| 1:01.5 | I will always love you. |
| 1:03.1 | Wasn't a sensation until after it was reimagined by the late great Whitney Houston. |
| 1:07.8 | In fact, it's pretty common for one musician to write a song for another to sing it instead. |
| 1:13.6 | It's how some get their start before they break out on their own. |
| 1:16.9 | Others climb the ladder to start them by writing catchy jingles for TV and radio commercials. |
| 1:22.0 | There are many roads that lead to a bright career in the entertainment industry. |
| 1:26.6 | Just look at Barry Pincas. |
| 1:29.0 | Pincas was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1943. |
| 1:31.9 | He called the neighborhood of Williamsburg his childhood home before enrolling at the |
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