EP: 10 Marc Jordan - GVAC Song Clinic

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Give Vance a Chance Song Clinic

GIVE VANCE A CHANCE

11 episodes

1 month ago

Throughout this podcast series, I’ll be joined by many old friends and former colleagues - to give everyone an opportunity to hear the remarkable stories behind some of your favorite songs, from the mouths of the people who had a direct hand in crafting them. Beyond the anecdotes, we hope to impart you with some really practical songwriting tips, general tools and inspiration for how to succeed in your songwriting career.

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EP: 10 Marc Jordan - GVAC Song Clinic

Give Vance a Chance Song Clinic

27 minutes

3 years ago

EP: 10 Marc Jordan - GVAC Song Clinic

Marc Wallace Jordan was born March 6, 1948 into a musical household in Brooklyn, NY. His dad Charles was a successful Canadian singer who moved back to Canada soon after Marc was born, which makes Marc an American-born Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, session musician, and actor. Covering a wide variety of genres, he has written songs for a number of well-known artists, including Diana Ross, Rod Stewart, Cher, Bette Midler, Chicago, and Josh Groban, to name a few. In 1977 Jordan reached a U.S. deal with Warner Bros. Records.[1] This period with Warner spawned the Canadian hit songs "Marina del Rey" and "Survival" from the record Mannequin; a second record produced by Jay Graydon called Blue Desert was released 1980, and is regarded as a classic of the West Coast Sound of the period. He was named best producer with Steven MacKinnon at the Juno Awards in 1994 for "Waiting for a Miracle" (from Reckless Valentine). In 2014 the Canadian Film Centre appointed Jordan as the Musical Director of its Slaight Family Music Lab.[2] In the 1980s, Jordan was signed to RCA for two records. Paul De Villiers produced the first, Talking Through Pictures, and Kim Bullard the second, called C.O.W.. In 1988, Jordan sang and co-wrote the theme song to the hit Australian movie Boulevard of Broken Dreams which was nominated for an AFI Award for Best Film. After independently releasing the critically acclaimed recordings Reckless Valentine and Cool Jam Black Earth, he was signed to Blue Note/EMI Canada in 1999, and followed up with two more jazz-oriented CDs, This Is How Men Cry and Make Believe Ballroom. Jordan is also an actor and he made his acting debut in Michael McGowan's 2010 sports musical Score: A Hockey Musical, where he plays Edgar Gordon, a pacifist father who along with his wife (Olivia Newton-John) have a 17-year-old son who has a talent for hockey. He is married to fellow singer-songwriter Amy Sky. They live in Toronto and have a cottage in Muskoka with their two children, Ezra and Zoe. Jordan and Sky are both national UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors for Canada. He is currently finishing up a duets album with Amy whilst also...