He said he knew immediately the song was something special. Listen to a clip of David Barrett "One Shining Moment" (MP3). The next thing I knew, I had this inner dialogue going on and somehow ‘one shining moment’ came out of my mouth and I knew exactly what I was going to do. Then the phrase came to me, that he was in the moment. I’d been to Nashville, I’d done the whole thing, I thought ‘I can’t write that.’ (The evening I wrote the song) I was playing at a bar, I had finished my night’s work, I was looking at ESPN, watching Larry Bird, and the most beautiful waitress in the world sat down next to me I tried to explain to her how amazing (Bird) was. “I had made a personal decision that I was going to write about things I knew and cared about. She’s a remarkable talent - genuinely thoughtful, genuinely classy and genuinely humble.”īarrett, who sat down with over coffee recently to talk about “One Shining Moment,” said he wrote the song in about 20 minutes in 1986 after seeing basketball star Larry Bird on TV. “She kept on saying ‘Where did this come from?’ She was really into it. “She - and I don’t say this out of braggadocio - really liked the song,” Barrett said of Hudson, who he worked with in Los Angeles during recording sessions for the song in March. This year there will be a twist - pop star and Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson recently recorded a new version, which will mark the end of the broadcast on Monday, April 5. That’s because a song he wrote, “One Shining Moment,” has been used in CBS’ televised coverage of the event for almost 25 years, airing at the very end of the championship game postgame show, after interviews and commentary. From left, Harvey Mason Jr., Jennifer Hudson and David Barrett in Los Angeles recently.Īlthough he’s always been a basketball fan, Ann Arbor songwriter and musician David Barrett takes an even stronger interest in hoops when the Final Four rolls around.
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