“I was developing a business relationship with Peermusic, doing one song here, one song there, getting to know one another and thinking about maybe doing a long term deal, which we ultimately did. By independent, I mean not associated with an entertainment conglomerate like Warner or Sony or something.
Jud Friedman: “We had a mutual friend named Kathy Spanberger, who was one of the heads of Peermusic – one of the biggest independent international music publishing companies in the world. So I think I knew from the beginning that I had found my musical soul mate, and we’re still writing partners 30 years later.” The second was I Just Had To Hear Your Voice, which Oleta Adams had an adult contemporary hit with. US chart position: 1 Allan Rich: “The first thing we ever wrote together was I Don’t Have The Heart and that went to No 1. Here, he’s joined by his creative partner to talk us through a hit that only landed due to the writing talent and dogged determination of its creators… Friedman now teaches Songwriting, Collaboration and Music Business Law and Contracts at LACM. That inaugural success led to careers which, whether together or apart, saw them land songs with some of the biggest stars of the day, including Kenny Loggins, Oleta Adams, Tina Turner, Rod Stewart and Gladys Knight.
Today though, we’re here to learn about another track – the very first song written together by Friedman and Rich, which ended up a chart-topping hit for R&B artist James Ingram. Already the best-selling soundtrack of all time, the recent vinyl reissue, plus the upcoming biopic Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody, will no doubt lead to a renewed upsurge in popularity for one of the album’s most powerful moments. We’ve previously talked to the pair about how they wrote Run To You for Whitney Houston’s Bodyguard movie and soundtrack. Both chasing their dreams of becoming songwriters, it’s fair to say they helped to make each other’s dreams come true. Jud Friedman and Allan Rich are two New Yorkers who met in Los Angeles in the late 1980s. When the first song you write together knocks Janet Jackson off the top of the charts, you’re doing something right…
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