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Songwriting Legend Jeff Barry Explains How He’s Written So Many #1 Songs for Women · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Jeff Barry's the name anyone outside of the entertainment industry
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Speaker 2: might not be familiar with, but his music is known
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Speaker 2: in every corner of the globe. He is, without question
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Speaker 2: a song writing master, responsible for sixty smashes like The Ronettes,
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Speaker 2: Be My Baby, The Crystals That Do Run, ron and
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Speaker 2: the Dixie Cups, Chapel of Love, and the list goes
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Speaker 2: on and on. One thing you might notice is that
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Speaker 2: they're love song sung by women from the female perspective,
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Speaker 2: and Barry never struggled to find the words of those
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Speaker 2: ladies because the language of love feels universal to him.
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Speaker 2: He tells songwriter Universe, people are people pretty much. I
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Speaker 2: guess it's because I'm a romantic at heart. Most of
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Speaker 2: my heads have been by females. It doesn't seem odd
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Speaker 2: to me that I can write for the female mind
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Speaker 2: as well as the guy's perspective. Because all the songs
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Speaker 2: are about love and romance. The feelings are pretty much
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Speaker 2: the same. A guy in love, a girl in love,
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Speaker 2: being hurt by love, a broken heart. I don't know
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Speaker 2: how much is gender reliant. Don't know if you know,
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Speaker 2: but guys cry too. And one of Barry's many claims
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Speaker 2: of fame. He wrote the theme to the sitcom that
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Speaker 2: Jefferson's Moving On Up, named by Rolling Stone is the
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Speaker 2: greatest TV theme song of all
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Speaker 1: Time that's direct from Hollywood.