RIP Adam Schlesinger

Deserves his own thread. A real giant in terms of songwriting. Wrote "That Thing You Do!" among many others.

Adam Schlesinger, Emmy Winner and Fountains of Wayne Cofounder, Dies of Coronavirus Complications

 

Damnit!!

 

Fun fact: the bass player in the variety show scene is the current bass player for Pablo Cruise.

 

That's a damn shame. And he's just a year older than I am, which reminds me to be careful. I remember "Stacy's Mom" on MTV and he helped put together one hell of a soundtrack for "That Thing You Do."

 

Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger: 20 Essential Songs

 

Stacy's mom is devastated. RIP

 

This one hit me pretty damn hard.

The guy was immensely talented. He never really got the widespread acclaim he deserved, but he's absolutely one of the best songwriters of the past 30 years. "Stacy's Mom" is a great song, but he had at least a dozen that were every bit as good. His side project, Ivy, was also really good.

And he was one year younger than me.

Fuck.

 

Schlesinger did a lot of work with David Javerbaum, who made his bones writing songs for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals then ended up as an EP at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In addition to the two of them doing the Tonys clip at the top, they did this little ditty from A Colbert Christmas. Actually they most of the songs.
That Colbert got Toby Keith to sing it, poking fun at himself and the War on Christmas at the same time. The clip from the show is even funnier, imagine a kid's Christmas special featuring Santa's sleigh armed with sidewinder missiles.

 

In the lyric, Stacy is a girl, but I went to school with two Staceys who were boys, dated a girl Stacy and at one time had a guy Stacy who was kind of a grand-boss in the chain of command.

 

I've got to think Zahn ends up a part of this. Shoot between Schlesinger and Hanks, Coronavirus has been brutal to Capt. Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters.

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