How does a song make us feel like we want to go home? that we miss someone who has left us at a home that now feels nothing but empty? that they may never come home, though we'll never stop hoping? In this first episode, I look at Sam Cooke's song, 'Bring It On Home to Me', to introduce the concept of the 'home' chord and to explore all the ways Cooke uses melody, harmony, lyrics and more to achieve a powerful expression of missing someone, of longing for their return.
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05/21/20 • 23 min
The Secret Life of Songs - #1 - Bring It On Home to Me / Sam Cooke
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Bring It On Home To Me
Hello and welcome to the first episode of the Secret Life of Songs - a podcast on the making - and the meaning - of classic pop records. I’m Anthony, I’m a musician who writes and performs music under the name sky coloured and I wanted to write about a certain way of listening to music - a way that tries to take in the whole of a record - its lyric, its musical material and arrangement, its performance and production - to get closer to
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