Just Published — Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Story Behind The Song
Chicken Soup for the Soul® (based in Cos Cob, CT) has partnered with veteran Hollywood publicist, talent manager and celebrity booker Jo-Ann Geffen for the first all-celebrity book from the brand.
In this new book, Geffen peels back the curtain on 101 songs, songwriters and artists with the upcoming release of Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Story Behind the Song (Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC, November 10, 2009, 978-1-935096-40-5, $14.95). Jo-Ann Geffen is credited as editor along with Chicken Soup for the Soul co-founders Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. The foreword is by Lamont Dozier, who is credited as an architect of the Motown sound.
The book reflects on many favorite songs, from Kanye West to Richie Sambora, Christina Aguilera, Melissa Etheridge, John Legend, the Backstreet Boys’ Howie Dorough, and Jewel. Also represented are classic rock performer/songwriters like Chicago’s Robert Lamm, and Foreigner’s Mick Jones, Daryl Hall and John Oates, alternative rockers Aaron Lewis of Staind, Corey Taylor of Slipknot, and legendary punk rock hits such as Joan Jett’s “Bad Reputation”.
Also included: Jerry Cantrell from Alice In Chains reflects on his father’s tour in Vietnam and its aftermath in “Rooster”, pop classics like those of Barry Manilow, Hal David, Diane Warren and Paul Anka who re-tells his history with Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, R&B songmasters such as Nathan Morris for the Boyz II Men/Mariah Carey hit “One Sweet Day”, Walter Orange of the Commodores, Smokey Robinson, Earth Wind and Fire’s Philip Bailey, and country hits from Tracy Lawrence, Ray Stevens, and Pam Tillis.
Each story is accompanied by a photo and the lyrics for the song that is discussed.