Mark Heyes(I)

Mark Heyes' big break occurred when he went to the song composing studios' team of Steve Tyrell, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. They paid Mark 50 bucks a week to bring them coffee and cigarettes. On his first day, Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram were downstairs in the studio singing "Somewhere Out There," a song that Cynthia had written for Steven Spielberg's "An American Tail," and that song went to No. ! in the country. During the eight years Mark was with Barry and Cynthia, they had three No. 1 songs that were written by them or their partner, Steve Tyrell. That is how Mark got his education in the film business. They were songwriters and they would get calls asking them to score films - and they said, "We don't know how to do it," and so they turned to Mark and said, "You guys figure out how to score," and he did - that's how Mark learned his composing craft from 1985 to 1992. Mark continued his "Time Out" - Bill Locey - Ventura Star newspaper interview, "Every one always want to be someone else? Everyone in Los Angeles is writing a screenplay! Well, this is 'El Lay' - so of course, every box boy, every bus-boy and every waiter has something they'd rather be doing - it's just part of life. Now this was a bucket list thing for me. I played in a band in high school and I played in coffee-houses in college and toured for two years - and then gave up. I never performed for 35 years. I never performed once, but it was in my soul and in my heart, so when I met Phil Salazar and realized that I could accomplish my dream of performing, as well as my career as a composer, I jumped at it. And I'm willing to do the work - be a roadie or whatever it takes to make it as a performer." Bill Locey asked, "OK, one more easy one: What's the best and worst thing about being self-employed?" Phil Salazar replied, "Well, you work all the time. We work day and night because if you don't work, you don't get paid!".