{"id":70274,"date":"2018-07-30T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=70274"},"modified":"2020-07-31T15:12:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:12:43","slug":"jack-blanchard-finding-the-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/30\/jack-blanchard-finding-the-hook\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Blanchard: Finding The Hook"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Thousands of intelligent good-looking readers.<\/i><\/strong><\/h2>\n

FINDING THE HOOK.<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

For readers unfamiliar with music business phrases:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

A “hook” is a part of a recording that grabs public attention.\u00a0<\/strong>All hits have a hook<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

It was ten minutes to one AM in Nashville, by the stud<\/strong>io clock.<\/strong>
\nThe pickers were tired and ready to pack up and head out.<\/strong>
\nThey were also bored cross-eyed<\/strong>
\nby the three songs they had just recorded for the new singer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The material would have been more interesting if it had been terrible,<\/strong>
\nbut it was just amazingly mediocre…<\/strong>
\nin fact it should be in the Guinness Book of Records under \u201cMediocre\u201d.<\/strong>
\nNow the singer was insisting on getting in one more song,<\/strong>
\nand there was no escape.<\/strong>
\nThe union says they are hired for the full three hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They did one quick run-through on the fourth song,<\/strong>
\nand the vocalist began to sing.<\/strong>
\nThe harmonica player found it hard to play while yawning.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As they were heading into the second bridge the singer got unexpected gas,<\/strong>
\nand the rather obscene sound was picked up by the microphone,<\/strong>
\nin living stereo, with reverb,<\/strong>
\nand it bled through all 24 tracks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It did wake the musicians up.<\/strong>
\nThey all looked suspiciously at each other,\u00a0<\/strong>
\nbecause there was no dog to blame.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The engineers tried unsuccessfully to get the noise out during the mixdown.<\/strong>
\nIn their frustration and excitement, mistakes were made,<\/strong>
\nand the first three songs were accidentally erased.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The singer was ready to cry,<\/strong>
\nbecause he was quickly running out of money,<\/strong>
\nand his potential career depended on one single track with a fart in it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The only course he could take was having a few hundred copies pressed<\/strong>
\nand sending them to radio stations,<\/strong>
\nhoping they would not notice that part of the record.<\/strong>
\nA couple of overworked deejays were busy and did let it slip by.<\/strong>
\nCalls started to come in.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Listeners were asking to hear it again because they couldn\u2019t believe their ears.<\/strong>
\nSome of the more vulgar ones thought it was funny,<\/strong>
\nand others could relate to the recording artist\u2019s embarrassment<\/strong>
\nand gave him a sympathy vote.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This, of course, is how popular records come to be.<\/strong>
\nCritics argued about it, some saying that it was artistic integrity,<\/strong>
\nand others condemning it as a bad influence on their children,<\/strong>
\nwho apparently had never heard such a sound.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In some places the song was banned, which is a sure way to get a hit.<\/strong>
\nAlthough the real title was \u201cYou\u2019re So Sophisticated\u201d,<\/strong>
\nthe public called it \u201cThe Fart Song\u201d,<\/strong>
\nand that\u2019s how it will go down in music history.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The singer had a few more chart entries until he ran out of funny sounds,<\/strong>
\nand tried to switch to straight ballads.<\/strong>
\nNobody took him seriously.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He\u2019s been depressed ever since,<\/strong>
\nbut thanks to that unfortunate little outburst,\u00a0<\/strong>
\nhe can sulk while sitting on his yacht.<\/strong>
\nHe’d found the hook.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jack Blanchard<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a9 2009, 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan\u2026\u00a0<\/strong>
\nHome Page:\u00a0http:\/\/www.jackandmisty.net<\/strong>
\nFacebook:\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jackandmisty<\/strong>
\nBillboard Duet of the Year, Grammy and CMA Finalists.<\/strong>
\n\u00a9 Jack Blanchard, 2018.<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thousands of intelligent good-looking readers. FINDING THE HOOK. For readers unfamiliar with music business phrases:\u00a0 A “hook” is a part of a recording that grabs public attention.\u00a0All hits have a hook It was ten minutes to one AM in Nashville, by the studio clock. The pickers were tired and ready to pack up and head out. They were also bored cross-eyed by the three songs they had just recorded for the new singer. The material would have been more interesting if it had been terrible, but it was just amazingly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73621,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70274\/revisions\/73621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}