SAM SCOLA
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play lo-fi play hi-fi  THE WILD CHASE (sound track)
play lo-fi play hi-fi  HARD CORE (music track)
play lo-fi play hi-fi  THE NEW DAWN
play lo-fi play hi-fi  RIDING HIGH ( track)
play lo-fi play hi-fi  IT'S GODS UNIVERSE
play lo-fi play hi-fi  GOD IS EVERYWHERE
play lo-fi play hi-fi  THE ISLAND OF LOVE
play lo-fi play hi-fi  THE LORD IS MY SAVIOR
play lo-fi play hi-fi  GOD GAVE ME THE GIFT TO WRITE THIS SONG
play lo-fi play hi-fi  MY OLD GUITAR
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JOURNAL TRIBUNE the daily newspaper of YORK COUNTRY, MAINE JAN. 18,2001 LONG WINNING ROAD TO FAME Lyman songwriter, By MOSELLE GOODMAN Journal Tribune Staff Writer am Scola is not the type of person who would be content with just 15 Minutes. He dreams of a longer-lasting reign of fame. Although his clock has yet to start ticking, he is vigilant about trying. Scola, 48, is a songwriter, and has considered himself such for 25 years. He has written more than 500 songs, most of them stored in boxes ih his Lyman studio. But some have made it out into the world and can be found on a couple of compact discs and on the Internet, sung by artists Terri Williams and Phil Coley. Scola, who has lived in Maine since 1988, first picked up the guitar in 1968. He learned it primarily by ear; he'd hear a song and pluck it out until it sounded right. Usually, it was a Beatles song - the British quartet was his inspiration. Then, while living in Gloucester, Mass., he joined a band. But it wasn't his calling, so he started writing music. Beatles aficionado works toward future in the music world Yoko Ono knows who he is. Scala has a collection of Christmas cards I'd like a major artist to record one of my songs, and to have the thrill of having a hit song played on the radio. Sam Scoia He tried all different kinds: rock 'n roll, blues, country. But he found he had a knack for writing easy-listening tunes and Christian pop. Scola has caught some heat for this, because he isn't evangelical. He goes to church and was raised Catholic, but he doesn't devote a lot of time to religion. Christian songs, he said, just come to him easily. "I kept doing it because it was something new to write about," he said. "My music and the Iyrical content felt good together." It was this type of music Terri Williams picked up. she has two CDs, and has recorded two Sam Scola songs: "Open the Gates to Heaven," a country-sounding Christian piece, and "I'm Country After AII." It is not a lucrative enough business yet for Scola. He still has to keep a more traditional job to pay the bills, so he works nights at the Portland Post Office. Scola is proud of his accomplishments so far, but he wants more. Although getting that first big break as a songwriter is difficult, even with an agent (L.V. Dabbs Publishing of Glen Ellyn, III.). Often, he said, writers receive no credit. More often, they get a lot of criticism, and Scola admits he has a tough time with that part. "I take it personal," he said. So he calls himself the "unknown songwriter," although some of the mementos in the studio of his Kennebunk Pond Road home, where he records his tunes on an oldfashioned reel-to-reel tape machine, contradict him. from her, personally addressed to him. "Sam, thanks for the collage," one reads. "Julian has it hanging in his room. Love, Yoko Ono." Scola may not be a fanatic about religion, but he is about the Beatles. He has Beatles magnets, plates and T-shirts, and wears a mop-top haircut. He has autographs from every one of them, except John Lennon. He does, however, have a John Lennon painting on black velvet hanging on the wall and Yellow Submarine figurines still in their boxes on the floor. This is all surrounded by hundreds of records - we're talking LP's here - and boxes of reel-to-reel tapes. Among them, just maybe, is the next great hit. Scola certainly hopes so. "I'd like a major artist to record one of my songs," he said, "and to have the thrill of having a hit song played on the radio." For more than 15 minutes.Visit my website on mp3.com.AU/samscola. SONGWRITER AND PUBLISHER* VISIT OUR LINKS***NEED SONGS FOR YOUR NEXT CD?? CONTACT US . JESSE DEAN*GARY
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