Babyface Quotes
A really cool thing about the Babyface Songbook is this is the first time that Babyface as a songwriter has been elevated to this level... I dou't pretend to be the one elevating him, but our treatment of him has that kind of integrity to it, that kind of dignity. In the pop world, you can be taken seriouslor not. As a pop songwriter, you can be here today and gone tomorrow. Babyface and his music have withstood the test of time. This project is a tribute to a great songwriter in the traditions of Cole Porter, Holland/Dozier and Irving Berlin. They all had the ability, through a lyric or a note, to find the common ground that unites us all, to find that something that thousands and thousands of people can feel intimately and profoundly. That is power, and thau's what these songs have. The music of Babyface goes straight to the heart.
- Kirk Whalum
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you heard correctly. As a matter of fact, the first time I was on TNT and I
did the poem... I was in a suit of armor. ... Vince McMahon said, in the commercial he said, 'Lanny
that was great, I want you to do that before every match, I want you to do a
poem.' I thought to myself, well okay, that's a little tough on a babyface...
so I thought to myself, Al Costello used to throw those boomerangs (with The
Fabulous Kangaroos) ... and I know that, my brother and I used to gouge each
other's eyes trying to get those things, you know? Whenever you get free
stuff... so I started out throwing these little rolled-up scrolls but they
weren't really flying. So I said, I've gotta throw a frisbee. So I bought 500
frisbees and I wrote a poem on them. And then the marketing people from World
Wrestling Federation said, 'Do you mind if we market these?' Do I mind if you
market these? I said I was dying to get my feet wet in that. So they. - Lanny Poffo