Wagner influence on Phil Spector?
November 5, 2008 7:43 AM Subscribe
Phil Spector's "To Know Him is to Love Him," he claims it was influenced by, or based on, a melody of Wagner's. Any guesses which one?
Response by poster: Well, that book is the source of my inquiry. Maybe I'll get all nickyskye on Carol Connors, and just check the phone book.
Yes, I did see "arrangement," but how can a song be based on an arrangement, rather than influenced by it? Maybe a particular harmonic progression, rather than a melody?
posted by StickyCarpet at 10:22 AM on November 5, 2008
Yes, I did see "arrangement," but how can a song be based on an arrangement, rather than influenced by it? Maybe a particular harmonic progression, rather than a melody?
posted by StickyCarpet at 10:22 AM on November 5, 2008
From "Tearing Down the Wall of Sound" by Mick Brown, pgs 39-40:
Spector told Annette [Kleinbard] that he had derived the melody from a Wagner opera. "I don't know which one - I hate Wagner - but that's what he told me."posted by kpmcguire at 2:57 PM on November 5, 2008
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posted by languagehat at 8:31 AM on November 5, 2008