Songwriters Room

Ep40. The song Cissy & Whitney recorded written by The Netsky Twins


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THE Netsky Twins, Steve Netsky and Ron Netsky are accomplished versatile songwriters, writing together since 1970s. Some of the songs recorded  and performed are: Love Don’t Hurt People” recorded by Cissy Houston, with Whitney Houston on background vocals, “Only Love Can Make It  Right,” recorded by Jet Brown. 

Steve Netsky wrote the Celtic instrumental “The Green Hills” and the country-blues instrumental “The Patchwork Quilt” for albums by  storyteller Sharon Kennedy and was nominated for a Grammy for the production of her album The Patchwork Quilt And Other Stories From Around The World in 1998. He also co-wrote the song “Standing In The  Doorway” with legendary folksinger Mary McCaslin on her 2006 album  Better Late Than Never. Steve toured the world as a member of the  Klezmer Conservatory Band, as a production manager at Rounder Records, and currently at Ed Keane Associates, a management and booking company,  where he works with artists like Take 6, The Manhattan Transfer, Nnenna  Freelon. He has taught Music Business at University of Massachusetts  Lowell, and currently the coach of the Songwriting Ensemble at New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. 

Ron Netsky is one of the writers about music for the NY magazine “My  City Paper” He’s also a Professor of Art at NazarethCollege in Rochester  NY. If you’re an artist looking for songs to record, please check their  YouTube channel “Songs by the Netsky Twins” where you can hear many of  their unrecorded songs. If you find any song you’d like to record,  contact me through my website: tomokomusic.com

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Songwriters RoomBy Tomoko Fukuda

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