Playlist for Silverman
When you write a book about a musician, there’s going to be a lot of music in it. And music writing can be tricky. How do you describe a song? How do you make the reader hear it and feel it and understand what it means to the story?
The tunes created by Da Funk were written for this book. They have lyrics and melodies but have never been recorded.
Others are popular songs that I could not quote without paying royalties. In some cases, I relied on the song name alone to get the idea across. In others, I described the sound (an inexact science at best). It seems to me that there should be a soundtrack to Silverman. Click on any of the following songs to hear them on Youtube.
Chapter 3: Donna Lee, by Charlie Parker
Chapter 4: Requiem, by Fauré
Chapter 5: Lush Life, written by Billy Strayhorn, best performed by Joe Williams; also
Funkin’ For Jamaica, by Tom Browne
Chapter 10: Kiss, by Prince
Chapter 11: Primetime, by Janelle Monae & Miguel
Chapter 13: Hit the Road, Jack, by Percy Mayfield
Chapter 19: Unnamed song by Pharrell Williams, which anyone could guess is Happy
Chapter 20: Another unnamed song, this time by Adele:,Someone Like You
Is it possible that a song list could be a spoiler?
I’m leaving the last song out, just in case.