For Tax Time: A song about money called "Big Bucks" - Hear a Free Clip at www.barrows.com/music.html

SAN MATEO, Calif. - April 7, 2015 - PRLog -- FOR TAX TIME...A SONG ABOUT MONEY CALLED “BIG BUCKS”

Every year around tax time, a lot of radio stations will start playing some songs about money like The Beatles’ “Taxman” and Pink Floyd’s “Money.”

Now you can add a new song to that playlist, a song about money called “Big Bucks.” Big Bucks is a song about the hopes and dreams of making

big money.

Some of the lyrics about the hope of making big money go like this:

“It don’t take brains. It don’t take brawn. I only hope it don’t take too long.”

Some of the other lyrics about the frustration about not making big money go like this:

“How do they get in those jobs with the big bucks? How did they get there? Who and or what did they know?”

“Big Bucks” was written by Robert Barrows of San Mateo, California and Gary Warren of Sacramento, California and you can hear a free clip of “Big Bucks” at www.barrows.com/music.html; There is also a link on that page where you can download the song for 99 cents on iTunes.

“Every time you read about pro athletes getting mega-million dollar deals just for throwing a ball, and every time you read about ‘Income Inequality,’ and whenever you read about a severance deal where somebody gets millions of dollars just for getting fired, that’s the perfect time to play a song called ‘Big Bucks,’ says Barrows, it’s a song the rest of us can vent to.”

Here is some background and information on the song and its airplay:

Barrows originally wrote "Big Bucks" as a poem in the mid 1980s after some second-string second baseman, who seldom hit over .200, got a multi-million dollar deal just for playing baseball.

Then, in 1998, Barrows teamed up with a musician named Gary Warren, of Sacramento, California, and they co-wrote the song version of “Big Bucks.”

The song was released in 1999 to radio stations that played rap and hip-hop. “Big Bucks” and another song on the CD called “Run For Office,” a satire on politics, both got some airplay.

The song ends with the lines:

“In the game of money, competition is tough...Keep going for your dreams until you find Big Bucks, Big Bucks.”

Followed by... “I need money...Big Bucks...I need money.”

“Don’t we all?” says Barrows. “Too bad I can’t play football. Too bad I can’t hit home runs. Too bad I don’t have one of those jobs where you get millions of dollars just for getting fired.”

“Maybe I’ll make my millions if millions of people download these songs?” he adds.

Another poem that Barrows would like to be able to turn into a song is a poem he wrote called “It used to be Made in America.”

It used to be Made in America is about the loss of jobs and the consequences of the outsourcing of manufacturing to other countries. You can see the poem online at www.itusedtobemadeinamerica.com.

In addition to doing advertising and songwriting, Barrows is also an inventor, author and sculptor.

The invention is a video tombstone called the Video Enhanced Gravemarker (U.S. Patent #7,089,495) www.barrows.com/invention.html, and he is also the author of a book called “Cemetery of Lies,” www.barrows.com/novel.html.

You can see some of his sculpture at www.barrows.com/gallery.html.

Barrows has also written a business booklet about some advertising math he developed called “The Barrows Popularity Factor.” The Barrows Popularity Factor is an easy-to-use mathematical formula that actually lets you quantify the relationship between advertising and sales.

“Businesses of all kinds can use the math to help them make a lot more money,” says Barrows. You can read more about the math and download The Barrows Popularity Factor booklet for $4.95 at www.barrows.com/bpfinfo.html.

He has also written a book of poetry called “Crazy Robert’s Poems and Potential Song Lyrics.” “With April being National Poetry Month, Barrows suggests that you can help rescue all these great poems from obscurity by downloading the book for a dollar on Amazon.”

For more information about “Big Bucks,” and to arrange an interview with Robert Barrows, contact Robert Barrows at R.M. Barrows, Inc. Advertising and Public Relations in San Mateo, California at 650-344-4405.