Interview Episode 8: Mark Barkan

the Millennial Throwback Machine

For this week's episode of the podcast, since it is episode number 80, I'm going to do a very special interview episode of this podcast. I'm gonna be talking to somebody who has written a handful of hit songs back int he 60's, but the amount of hit songs he has written equals to the amount of history that he has within a very historically important and special time frame in music, when he was writing and recording demos, he was involved in this magical and exciting musical atmosphere where such famous songwriters such as Carole King and Burt Bacharach and Neil Diamond worked out of, and that was known as the Brill Building. If you are already not familiar with the Brill Building, and you don't really know anything about it. Brace Yourself because you are about to receive the education of a lifetime about it with this specific interview episode of this podcast. but just in case you don't know what we are talking about when we mention certain songs that he has written in the past, here are the links to those songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7zUjBOp-1E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09qLEYB8e0A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90RctK8E3L4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yqAaejuRn8 You Can Also Follow me and reach out to me On Instagram right here: https://www.instagram.com/iheartoldies/ You Can Also Check Out More of my original music right here: http://www.samwilliamsmusic.net Please do also check out the official Spotify and Youtube Playlists for this podcast. There you'll find all of the songs I have talked about on my podcast so far, and in the playlist I'll include some of the relevant songs that we talked about in this week's interview episode. if you would like to know the exact type of music that I talk about on my podcast, please listen to these playlists. and hopefully this will give you some good ideas as to which songs I should cover next on my podcast that I haven't covered yet, if it does, please email me at [e-mail] or you can also reach out to me on Instagram @iheartoldies: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/21f3uBS6kU4hUF6QAC5JMj?si=CTor-0ZIRjqqS5YQTVWnag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS1sYR7xky8&list=PL66sgq_GAmRcXy8yKZJfVmAD14HUYj7Nf Please Do Also Check Out the Official Redbubble Merch Store For this podcast. There you will find all of the merch for this podcast, and this super cool logo that I personally came up with myself and I had somebody else design, attached to a bunch of really cool online merch items. If you would like to further support this podcast, please do check out this store and maybe buy a couple of items from it, if you do that, I would really appreciate that, but if you don't, please give me some feedback on the store items and the prices of each item and what do you think of the logo: https://www.redbubble.com/people/60ssam95/works/36806158-keep-things-groovy?asc=u&ref=recent-owner If you found this interview very educational and interesting (I know I sure did, and I did learn a lot from listening to this podcast interview episode) and you learned some amazing and wild and crazy facts/information about these songs and you never knew anything about them, please email me at [e-mail] or you can reach out to me on Instagram @iheartoldies, and also, for anybody that listened to this whole episode in it's entirety, I thank you for that. I know it's a long one (the longest interview I have done on my podcast so far) but I hope you found it interesting and informative and educational. This weekend there will be no new podcast episode for Thanksgiving but I will resume putting out new episodes the week...