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HEART AND SOUL OF BERT BERNS
"I
absolutely loved the music that he created. There I was,
a young kid listening to him play the guitar and sing these
songs. It inspired and thrilled me to hear the demos and
they came to life as these incredible records. He just never
got his due." - Doug
Morris
"Except
for Bert Berns, I felt people who said they were producing
Them didn't have a clue." - Van
Morrison
"I
have always enjoyed the great music created by Bert, not
only as a composer, but as a producer as well. In learning
about his background and career, it is amazing when you
find out about the enormous number of hits and well known
songs that he was involved with one way or another. Some
of my favorite songs of Bert's, aside from the well-known
legendary hits, include "Friends And Lovers Forever"
recorded by Nancy Ames and "I'm Gonna Run Away From
You" by Tami Lynn." - Chris
"The Mighty" Quinn
"Like
all of the greats, Berns had an ability to bring out the
best in the singers he worked with. Berns style may have
been a bit goofy (loud clothes, defiant hairpiece, dangling
cigarette) but his passion was unassailable." -
JS Online
"Bert had written a song with Jerry Ragovoy called
"Piece Of My Heart", especially for me to record.
When I first saw it, I found they'd written it in a calypso-type
beat but I told them I just couldn't do it like that, so
they let me do it my way!" - Erma
Franklin
"Bert
got me with MGM... He worked hard to make his artists succeed...
I met him through Mister Mellin...We became good friends,
we were close. He was a real hard worker. He used to stay
up all night long and the next day, the next evening, the
next night, the same thing...He stayed in New York and he
would write and he'd say 'Hoagy, I want you to get a
hotel room too', so I'd get one and we would both stay
over. He'd come up with all kinds of songs. He was good;
he was the best. Everybody liked him, he was a perfectionist."
- Hoagy
Lands
"I
dare you to name a record contemporaneous with "I
Don't Want to Go On Without You" that sounds remotely
like it. To me, it sound like a Gamble & Huff record
or a Spinners record of 10 years later. It's one of the
most astonishing records I have heard, because it entirely
separates the string track from the vocal track, making
two distinct themes." - Fan, J. Cohen
"He
knew he was not going to live long enough to watch [his
kids] grow up...He told our mother that these songs would
teach us who he was, and it does feel at times that he is
speaking to us in these records." -
Brett Berns
"This
exceptional songwriter and producer was responsible for
some of urban, ‘uptown’-soul's most treasured
moments. He began his career as a record salesman, before
being drawn into a new role as copywriter and session pianist...An
astute individual, Berns once proffered a photograph of
the Beatles to writer Nik Cohn. ‘These boys have genius.
They may be the ruin of us all.’ He was referring to
an endangered generation of hustling backroom talent, responsible
for gathering songs, musicians and arrangements." -
Unknown
Biographer
