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Van Zandt and Schechter also struggled to get their documentary seen. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) refused to broadcast the non-profit film The Making of Sun City [18] even though it won the International Documentary Association's top honors in 1986. PBS claimed the featured artists were also involved in making the film and were therefore ...
Van Zandt became interested in writing a song about Sun City to make parallels with the plight of Native Americans. Danny Schechter, a journalist who was then working with ABC News' 20/20, suggested turning the song into a different kind of "We Are the World", or as Schechter explains, "a song about change not charity, freedom not famine."
Daniel Isaac "Danny" Schechter (June 27, 1942 – March 19, 2015) was an American television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and media critic. He wrote and spoke about many issues including apartheid , civil rights , economics, foreign policy , journalistic control and ethics, and medicine.
Jonathan Miles Shecter (born August 4, 1968), an American magazine editor and music promoter, [1] is also known as "Shecky Green" and "J the Sultan." He is the co-founder [2] of the music and culture magazine The Source, former Director of Programming for the Wynn Las Vegas, [1] and current Editor-In-Chief for Cuepoint at Medium.
"In the Sun" is a song by American duo She & Him, written by Zooey Deschanel for their second album, Volume Two. The song was released as the first single from the album on February 23, 2010, a full month ahead of the album. It was published on-line by Pitchfork on January 22, 2010. [1]
Basya Schechter is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, cantor, and music teacher. She is the lead singer and founder of the world / folk rock band Pharaoh's Daughter and has released two solo albums.
There are so many enduring symbols of Christmas: the trimmed tree, stockings hung by the chimney with care, and of course, jolly Ol' Saint Nick.But for Ree Drummond, there's one Christmas ...
Basya Schechter formed Pharaoh's Daughter in 1995 while attending Barnard College. [1] The band's name is a reference to Schechter's given name, a Yiddish variant of the Biblical daughter of Pharaoh, Bithiah. [2] They debuted in 1999 with the independent album Daddy's Pockets and were signed to Knitting Factory Records later that year. [3]