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Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow — Rivingtons

Papa Was a Rollin' Stone — Undisputed Truth (the original recording)

Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince — Taylor Swift

Congratulations !!!!!!!!!!!! Back to Becan is good.

Midnight Train To Georgia — Gladys Knight and the Pips

Night Train — Viscounts I know it's Jimmy "Night Train" Forrest song, but this is the one I learned as a kid.

That's all I'm doing, recycling Stan Getz, Buddy Holly, Sil Austin, Paul McCartney, Ace Cannon, Ludwig Beethoven, Bernard Purdie, Jim Horn, Duane Eddy, Henry Mancini, Dmitri Shostakovich, Junior Walker, James Jamerson, Stanley Turrentine, David Sanborn, Jimmy Forrest, Robert Johnson, Sam 'The Man' Taylor, Buddy Guy, Plas Johnson, Maceo Parker, Bobby Keys, Johnny Rivers, David 'Fathead' Newman, Marvin Gaye, Earl Bostic, Bob Marley, Paul Desmond, Tito Puente, Ray Charles, Elvis Presley, King Curtis, and so many thousands of others of all instruments and genres. I've learned thousands and thousands of songs so far in my career, plus I've listened and analyzed hundreds of thousands of others, and I take a piece of all of them with me. IMO, AI can't write a symphony - yet - but some of the things on Suno are better than some of the songs that were popular and I've learned to please my audience. "Get Up And Boogie", "Surfin Bird", "Wooly Bully", "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), "I'm Your Boogie Man", and so many more. But nothing I hear is as good as "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Roundabout", "Crimson King", "Nights In White Satin", "Aqualung", or the Abbey Road Medley. The public doesn't care. Both musical garbage and musical art have made millions. If I knew the secret, I'd market it and make zillions. The Luddites never got their jobs back, so IMO it's useless to fight AI. The "Disco Sucks" movement didn't get rid of DJs taking over the singles bars business. Musicians didn't stop Rap from being popular, either. I am a performer, and I love what I do. When I started, every singles bar, show bar, and hotel from a Holiday Inn on up had a 4 piece or more band playing 6 nights a week, and some had the beginner bands showing up on Monday. Then came "live" DJs, Karaoke, Open Mic Night, Sports Bars, and quite a few others, taking the place of what used to be the exclusive domain of live musicians. I've learned to adapt, going duo, making my own backing tracks (from scratch), and targeting the one-nighter party business for the 45+ year-olds while filling in with one-nighters at adult bars/restaurants, and so on. A lot of lugging, toting, and schlepping, but I'm still making a living doing nothing but music. For those writing songs for a living, AI represents a challenge. It's up to you to figure out a niche you can squeeze into and survive while the world changes around you. AI AIN'T going away. Insights and incites by Notes ♫

It's all in the approach. It takes practice.

I'm not a songwriter. All the lyrics I write sound trite and hackneyed. Probably because the words are the last thing I pay attention to. Until I've digested the song they are just articulations of the melody. But since I play sax, flute, guitar, bass, drums, wind synth, and keyboard synth, I want to know what every musician is doing. How they contrast or complement each other. How about the groove? Phrasing? Balance? Musical ornaments? And so much more. But I went to Suno out of curiosity and was very impressed with the sample songs. Especially in the pop and modern country genre, where I'm used to hearing auto-tune voices, If I heard most of them without trying to decide if they were AI or not, the thought wouldn't have crossed my mind. I make my own backing tracks for my duo, and I write after market styles for the Band-in-a-Box app. But for me, the creative process is what I like. It's like a puzzle. What do I want to accomplish, how do I do it, what do I need to change, and so forth? And when I'm done, I get that good sense of accomplishment. Having AI do all the work for me would be more like listening and appreciating songs made by others. I wouldn't get the "Listen to what I did" feeling. But that's just me. I don't write songs to make a living, and I don't need AI for gigging. DJs, Karaoke, Open Mic Night, Sports Bars and others already cut into my end of the business, but I found my niche, and adapted. If I get requests for an AI song, and if can cover it, I'd learn it. Insights and incites by Notes ♫

The Boomers and GenXers should get this one.