{"id":5077,"date":"2015-04-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=5077"},"modified":"2015-03-31T09:56:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T14:56:46","slug":"c-for-cynthia-weil-60s-nyc-songwriters-in-im-glad-i-did-book-review-love-music-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=5077","title":{"rendered":"C for Cynthia Weil’s 60s NYC songwriters in I’m Glad I Did (book review) – love, music, mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Music is her life,
\nevery beat, every melody, every chord.
\nBut not becoming a lawyer as family requires<\/a>?
\nObjection!<\/p>\n

Her 1963 summer job at a song publisher’s office is just what JJ wants – a chance to get her music heard, set with lyrics, recorded! She had no idea that race relations, romance, mystery, and unfair contracts would be part of it, too.<\/p>\n

Take a look at all the songs that author Cynthia wrote<\/a> with her musician husband, from the 60s to now (yes, they worked in the Brill Building) – so many radio and musical theater hits! She wrote 4 original lyrics for the book, too.<\/p>\n

Listen to the first chapters in the free Recorded Books preview here<\/a>, then walk with JJ away from her family’s expectations and into dream job as a songwriter.<\/p>\n

Have you ever defied what everyone said you “ought to do” to succeed at something you loved doing?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: I’m Glad I Did \/ Cynthia Weil. Soho Press, 2015. \u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: JJ is sure that working for a music publisher in summer 1963 will help her write better music, but the NYC teen didn’t know she’d find love, mystery, and secrets in the Brill Building too.<\/p>\n

Greens always become lawyers, but 16-year-old JJ doesn’t intend to follow that family rule. She’s written music forever and wants to hear hers on the radio, so what better way than a summer internship with Gold Music?<\/p>\n

In the famous Brill Building, JJ also discovers her black-sheep Uncle Bernie, cute Luke whose late father once published music with her uncle, and former radio star Sweet Dulcie Brown, who’s overcome drug addiction and still sings so very, very well.<\/p>\n

Luke’s lyrics plus JJ’s music with Dulcie’s soulful delivery equals the perfect demo record! Then tragedy strikes Dulcie, Luke discovers deep secrets in his father’s office papers, and time is counting down on JJ’s agreement with her parents – her song on the radio by summer’s end or she becomes a legal intern during college!<\/p>\n

Can JJ find the right ‘singer seeks song’ match for “I’m Glad I Did” in time?
\nDid Uncle Bernie and Mr. Silver take advantage of Dulcie as a young black singer?
\nCan Luke and JJ solve Dulcie’s mystery and find a future together?<\/p>\n

Written by multi-Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, I’m Glad I Did\u00a0 mixes early 60s radio music with the start of Civil Rights activism to create a hit single. (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Music is her life, every beat, every melody, every chord. But not becoming a lawyer as family requires? Objection! Her 1963 summer job at a song publisher’s office is just what JJ wants – a chance to get her music heard, set with lyrics, recorded! She had no idea that race relations, romance, mystery, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[237,19,50,51],"tags":[10,163,22,7,75,11,20,5,70,37,16,18,40,43,39,49,86,186,193,15,21,73,35,3,8,61],"class_list":["post-5077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","category-historical","category-mystery","tag-a2z","tag-african-american","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-music","tag-new-york","tag-prejudice","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-summer","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-us-author","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5077"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5645,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077\/revisions\/5645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}