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Nikki Jean's "How To Unring A Bell"

On Pennies In A Jar, her debut album, Philadelphia songwriter Nikki Jean collaborated with a host of songwriter's songwriters, some of whom are household names, like Bob Dylan, Carole King and Burt Bacharach, and others, like Luigi Creatore, who co-wrote "I Can't Help Falling In Love" and "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" and Jeff Barry, who teamed with Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector on "Be My Baby" and Da Doo Ron Ron," who wrote iconic pop songs without stepping out as perfromers.

In that latter category would be Thom Bell, the Sound of Philadelphia songwriting genius who specialized in penning fabulously titled pop songs like ""Betcha By Golly, Wow" and "(Didn't I) Blow You Mind This Time" for falsetto-blessed vocal groups like The Stylistics and The Delfonics,

Nikki Jean went to Bellingham, Washington to work with the man she always calls "Mr. Bell" and they wrote a song together with his name in the title. Earlier this month, she came to Aaron Levinson's Range Recordings studio in Ardmore and sang it, in addition to two other Pennies songs, and also sat down for an interview with me about how she went from Nouveau Riche to singing hooks for Lupe Fiasco to Pennies In A Jar. The whole show is here.  Below, you will find "How To Unring A Bell" by the S-Curve recording artist, who plays the World Cafe Live on Oct. 18.

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