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It's Easy! It's Fun! It Can Make You Famous! ...

Write-A-Long With America's Top Composers

You'll Receive: A Song-Writing Contract A Cash Prize

... And As An Exciting Bonus -- Your Entry May Be Recorded By A Capitol Artist* If You're One Of The Ten Big Winners In

Capitol's "Songs Without Words" Contest


Music arranged and conducted by Jack Marshall

Here's the best reason you'll ever have to write the lyrics you've always thought about writing. Here's perhaps the only chance you'll ever have to write those lyrics to melodies by America's top composers. It doesn't matter whether your favorite type of music is Popular, Country & Western, or Rock 'n' Roll -- this album contains melodies in all three categories . . . and you may enter lyrics in any or all categories.

The hardest part of lyric-writing is finding a collaborator, and this album gives you a chance to meet ten of the best in the business. Look at the lyrics their melodies have inspired . . .


    - Side One -

    POPULAR:
  1. Gene De Paul (famous for "I'll Remember April," "You Don't Know What Love Is" and many others)

  2. Jay Livingston & Ray Eyans (composers of "Sammy," "Que Sera Sera," and other Academy Award winners)

  3. Jimmy McHugh (composer of "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "I'm in the Mood for Love," and many others)

    COUNTRY & WESTERN:

  4. Audrey & Joe Allison (who have written such hits as "He'll Have to Go" and "Teen Age Crush')

  5. Cindy Walker ("You Don't Know Me" and "Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me" are among her list of great hits)

    - Side Two -

    POPULAR:
  6. Johnny Mercer (whose famous melodies include "Dream," "Something's Gotta Give," and many others)

  7. James Van Heusen (two of his many hits are "All the Way" and "High Hopes")

  8. Harry Warren (composer of such all-time favorites as "Lullaby of Broadway" and "September in the Rain")

    ROCK 'N' ROLL:

  9. Barry DeVorzon (whose hit compositions include "Dreamin'" and "Just Married")

  10. Winfield Scott (famous for his compositions "Tweedlee Dee," "Many Dreams Ago" and many more)


A major award will be made for the best lyrics to each of these melodies . . . 10 first prizes in all!

$500.00 cash advance against publication rights to your lyrics . . .

A contract calling for additional lyricist's royalties as earned . . .

*At least one winning song in each category (at least three in all) will be recorded by a Capitol artist as a special bonus.

Now that you know what you can win, here's all you do to enter . . .

Listen to each of the melodies in this album. Decide which category you want to enter -- POPULAR, COUNTRY & WESTERN, or ROCK 'N' ROLL (or enter lyrics in all three, if you like).

Read carefully the official contest rules confined in this album -- extras are available at your dealer.

Use only the official entry blanks contained in this album, or you may get extra official entry blanks from your record dealer. Be sure your entry is postmarked on or before January 31, 1962.

Contest intro


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