SELF PORTRAIT

Randy Goodrum

■ DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: July 7, 1947, Hot Springs

■ MY EARLIEST MUSICAL MEMORY: Hearing my Dad play guitar.

■ AS A STUDENT, I WAS: OK in most subjects, especially music, however deplorable in penmanship.

■ MY FIRST CAR WAS: 1967 Chevrolet

■ THE BEST PART OF WRITING A SONG IS: Discovering a new fresh angle or premise.

■ I AM HAPPIEST WHEN: I’m spending quality time with family and friends.

■ THE SECRET TO WRITING A HIT SONG IS: Don’t try to write a hit, just do the best you can at what you do and time will tell if it’s a hit or not.

■ THE LAST BOOK I READ WAS: “The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice” by David Hill

■ MY FAVORITE MEAL IS: Sea scallops

■ GUESTS AT MY FANTASY DINNER PARTY WOULD BE: Miles Davis, Mark Twain and Richard Feynman

■ A PHRASE I OVERUSE THE MOST IS: I’m just sayin’…

■ MY FAVORITE SONGWRITER IS: Johnny Mandel

■ ONE WORD TO SUM ME UP: Hybrid