Eric VB Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 My wife, helpful and, uh, subtle as she is, bought me The Complete Idiot\'s Guide to Songwriting (2nd Edition) by Joel Hirschhorn . I've briefly skimmed over it, but have yet to start reading. In the meantime, I visited my local library and checked out all the music books that caught my eye. One was If They Ask You, You Can Write a Song. I started reading it and noticed a lot of things looked similar to something I'd seen before. I went back to the Idiot's Guide and there was my answer: authors of If They Ask are Joel Hirschhorn and Al Kasha. Like most things in my local library, it's a little dated (published 1986 -- even has sections devoted to disco). Anyway, did a search of this forum and didn't notice any mention of Mr. Hirschhorn. Has anyone read any of his books on songwriting that could offer a brief review? As a side note, as I was just now googling I noticed that Joel Hirshhorn passed recently (9/18/05). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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