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ÊStalking the Red Headed StrangerÊ is a guide to the art and history of professional song plugging. But this isn't your run-of-the-mill history book/instruction manual. It is an in-depth up-close look into the real music business by industry insider and Grammy Award nominee Randy Poe who has represented literally hundreds of the greatest songs in the history of popular music including Stand By Me Happy Together Jailhouse Rock Under the Boardwalk Hound Dog What a Wonderful World Spanish Harlem Chapel of Love Summer in the City Love Potion No. 9 and Kansas City. ÞBut wait! There's so much more! Interwoven throughout this entertaining and enlightening book is the hysterical saga of the author as he chases American icon Willie Nelson across Canada ä via plane taxi rental car and even ferryboat ä in an attempt to pitch a single song to the Red Headed Stranger. And what happens on Willie's bus doesn't stay on Willie's bus. ÞÊStalking the Red Headed StrangerÊ or ÊHow to Get Your Songs into the Hands of the Artists Who Really Matter Through Show Business Trickery Underhanded Skullduggery Shrewdness and Chicanery as Well as Various Less Nefarious Methods of Song Plugging: A Practical Handbook and Historical PortraitÊ is the funniest hippest longest-titled how-to book you'll read this year.

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RANDY POE is a recipient of the music industry's Heroes and Legends Pioneer Award; is a Grammy-nominated record producer; and has produced, compiled, and/or written the liner notes for more than 100 albums. He is the former president of the California Copyright Conference and is on the advisory board of renowned folk music publication Sing Out! He is a recipient of the ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award for his book Music Publishing: A Songwriter's Guide. Poe's other books are Squeeze My Lemon: A Collection of Classic Blues Lyrics, featuring a foreword by blues legend B.B. King, and Skydog: The Duane Allman Story. Since 1985, Randy Poe has been the president of Leiber and Stoller Music Publishing in Los Angeles. Prior to his position with Leiber and Stoller, Poe was executive director of the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York.

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