{"id":18235,"date":"2022-07-04T11:42:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/?p=18235"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:02:09","slug":"berklee-online-collaborators-win-2022-daytime-emmy-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/berklee-online-collaborators-win-2022-daytime-emmy-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Berklee Online Collaborators Win 2022 Daytime Emmy Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-inside-the-creative-process-behind-berklee-online-s-emmy-award-winning-original-song-collaboration\">Inside the Creative Process Behind Berklee Online\u2019s Emmy Award\u2013Winning Original Song Collaboration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Berklee Online course authors <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/faculty\/brad-hatfield?pid=8023&amp;utm_source=takenote&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=bol-gen-takenote-article-promotion\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Hatfield<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/faculty\/gaye-tolan-hatfield?pid=8023&amp;utm_source=takenote&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=bol-gen-takenote-article-promotion\" target=\"_blank\">Gaye Tolan Hatfield<\/a> have earned a 2022 Daytime Emmy Award, along with Lydia Harrell, Jeff Meegan, and RC Cates, for \u201cOutstanding Original Song.\u201d The winning track is titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/25oFfajVe5eKLWF6qmnWKO?si=f9cd1931eaff46c6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Grateful For It All<\/a>\u201d and appeared on the soap opera <em>The Young and the Restless<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0146076\/bio\" target=\"_blank\">RC Cates<\/a> has been the music supervisor for the show since 2013, and is now an 11-time Emmy award winner. He first connected with the Hatfields when he was a student in Brad\u2019s online <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/courses\/music-supervision-1?pid=8023&amp;utm_source=takenote&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=bol-gen-takenote-article-promotion\" target=\"_blank\">Music Supervision<\/a><\/em> course in 2012. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/lydiaharrell.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Lydia Harrell<\/a> is a jazz\/soul vocalist and voice instructor at Berklee College of Music, and a recent graduate of Berklee Online\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/music-degrees\/undergraduate\/electronic-music-production-and-sound-design?pid=8023&amp;utm_source=takenote&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=bol-gen-takenote-article-promotion\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Music Production and Sound Design<\/a> bachelor\u2019s degree program. Co-writer <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffmeegan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Meegan<\/a> has been collaborating with Brad and Gaye for nearly two decades. He is a vocalist, drummer, and producer based in Chicago and represented the group by accepting the Emmy at the ceremony in LA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Jeff-Meegan-Original-Song-1166.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18240\" style=\"width:349px;height:524px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jeff Meegan accepting the award on behalf of the group at the Emmy Award ceremony on June 18, 2022 in Pasadena, California.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGrateful For It All\u201d appeared on a 2021 episode of <em>The Young and the Restless <\/em>that paid tribute to a character on the show, Neil Winters, and the actor who played him, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kristoff_St._John\" target=\"_blank\">Kristoff St. John<\/a>. St. John appeared on the show from 1991 up until his untimely death in 2019 at age 52. His character notoriously loved jazz music, and the team were tasked with creating songs that sounded like they were written by jazz legends (because they didn\u2019t have the budget to license the actual tunes). The episode culminated with \u201cGrateful For It All,\u201d with Harrell\u2019s vocal performance interpreting Billie Holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTheYoungandtheRestless%2Fvideos%2F247559833833211%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560&#038;t=59\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The five Emmy-winners reunited on a Zoom call extending three time zones to talk about how the song came together as well as the importance of collaboration and networking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s talk about the award-winning song. I watched the scene that \u201cGrateful For It All\u201d was in and it looked like the cast members were at a memorial, placing flowers down. And then I learned that it was not only a tribute to a character, but the actor who played that character as well. RC, since you\u2019re the music supervisor, could you tell me a bit about that scene and the cast member and why the song works so well here?<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RC Cates:<\/strong> On a personal level, it had extra poignancy for us because the actor who played the character that we were memorializing actually passed away. He was a really great guy and we all really loved him. What was unique about this particular thing was that his character on the show was historically a jazz fan. It lent us an opportunity because the song that this group, minus me, did was not the only contribution. That entire show was almost exclusively original jazz that Brad had written based on references that had been in the show over the decades of the artists he liked.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there\u2019s no budget on the show. So we couldn\u2019t actually use any of those authentic artists. So it became my task, and this is the greatest group of people I could possibly pick to say, \u201cAlright, how do we say Miles without using Miles?\u201d And it was a really fun back and forth.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When I was watching the clip, I noticed that there was a lot of space for the audience to take in the lyrics and the vocal performance. Lydia, what was it like to put yourself in that head space to sing the music and lyrics, especially when it\u2019s sort of breaking the fourth wall with a real person who passed away?<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lydia Harrell<\/strong>: Well sometimes I like knowing information like that, because it helps me to know how much I need to connect. But for that one, it was a little harder, just because it\u2019s like, oh my goodness, this is a real person that we lost. Wow, it\u2019s not just a character. But I was cast as Billie Holiday in <em>Lady Day at Emerson\u2019s Bar &amp; Grill.<\/em> I did not get to do it because of the pandemic. We were three rehearsals in and then they canceled it.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I had been practicing my Billie Holiday for a while. Brad already knew that I could sing jazz, so I\u2019m glad that he asked me to just do it at all. So we tried different takes and then, wasn\u2019t it like the last one, Brad? I was like, \u201cokay, let me just try this one last thing.\u201d And it was the Billie Holiday kind of feel, and it just worked. I\u2019m really glad that there was space left to, like you said, to really just take in the lyrics and the emotion behind what was happening. And also when my friends saw it, they were like, \u201cYou got the whole scene!\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cI know, right?\u201d That was kind of cool.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Brad Hatfield:<\/strong> I think it\u2019s important for students to realize how much folks are moving tracks around, approving things, moving forward, and making changes. So this is key, folks: learn how to engineer yourself at a really high-quality level, which Lydia did. She sent us a version that was definitely leaning heavier towards Billie . . . she also did sort of her own thing and we came up with a bit of a mish-mash of the two things, but I think the producers leaned more towards the Billie Holiday one. So that\u2019s the majority of that vocal cell. When we had a problem with the edit at the end, I got back to Lydia and she turned it right around. I said, \u201cHere\u2019s what you need to make this ending work.\u201d And she very quickly got the files back to me and I was able to drop them back in with the tweaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2608\" height=\"1586\" src=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/a-screenshot-of-the-Digital-Performer-session-of-the-edited-version.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18244\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A screenshot of the Digital Performer (software) session of the edited version of the song. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RC Cates:<\/strong> You know, Brad you\u2019ve gotten really good at that particular conundrum that you talked about. Because it\u2019s maybe a little bit unique to us because we do a show a day and we don\u2019t always have the benefit of a locked picture and enough time to create something like this beautiful song. The only way we were able to provide all the music the show needed for this episode is we started working on it almost two months in advance, and that was all just based on looking at scripts\u2014we had no idea how the scenes would actually play out and there were some moments where we had to dance at the last second.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was, \u201cOkay, here\u2019s the picture. You have maximum 48 hours to fix this, and oops, the edit is bad in the song, so let\u2019s fix it.\u201d That\u2019s a real skill set and I don\u2019t even know how you prepare students for that, but it\u2019s a very unique challenge.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gaye Tolan Hatfield: <\/strong>Lydia, did you learn to record yourself from taking all the online courses?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lydia Harrell:<\/strong> It\u2019s not where I learned to record myself, but my degree that I literally just got is in Electronic Music Production and Sound Design, and that was at Berklee Online. I learned a lot more and I feel like whatever high-quality I could do then I can do even better now. So yeah, it was a really great experience and learning how to mix and things like that.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gaye Tolan Hatfield:<\/strong> I think it\u2019s pretty rare to find a vocalist of your caliber to be able to record themselves as well as you do.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Brad Hatfield:<\/strong> And by the way, another person that we are sort of channeling in this tune is Shirley Horn. If you\u2019re not familiar with Shirley Horn, you should check her out because talk about space is the place, baby. You wait for every note, you wait for every lyric, and every lyric in Jeff\u2019s case was a killer. So when you waited, when you did get that lyric, when you did get that note, it was like, \u201cokay, you know, give me a little bit more.\u201d To your point about letting folks drink in the visuals, that\u2019s a big lesson too, for all the students. That\u2019s a lot of information coming at you and if you overcook the music and the lyrics, you\u2019ve stolen the viewer from their story. So this is why this tune worked out so well.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shirley Horn - Here&#039;s To Life (Verve Records 1992)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UTv3TONfTTQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shirley Horn&#8217;s song &#8220;Here&#8217;s to Life&#8221; inspired the Emmy award-winning song &#8220;Grateful For It All.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gaye Tolan Hatfield: <\/strong>That Shirley Horn tune is \u201cHere\u2019s To Life.\u201d It\u2019s got the yin and yang of \u201cso many struggles, yet I\u2019m thankful to be here, for having this life.\u201d And I think harmonically, when I was doing the chords, what grabbed me about that song is, the minor and major interplay. The verse starts very much in a minor zone, and then there\u2019s this sense of relief at the end of the phrase of a big major chord. So I love that. That was kind of fun. I was thinking the whole time of that cool harmony, you know, how it plays with that lyrically, with the message.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff, you wrote the lyrics. Could you talk a little bit about what the songwriting process was like?<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff Meegan:<\/strong> Brad and Gaye sent me a melody in chords and they gave me the Shirley Horn tune as a reference. And yes, it was pretty bare in tune, but everything that\u2019s talked about is really important. The importance of every word is heightened when there\u2019s not a lot going on. So I sat down with the tune and I sort of had a general direction. I didn\u2019t know how it was going to be used, to be honest with you, or where it was gonna be used in the show. But just like, \u201cokay, here\u2019s this tune and we\u2019ve got to write something that\u2019s kind of like this.\u201d And the message was clear, and I just had to find a different way of saying it.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I played around with a couple different ideas, but \u201cGrateful for It All\u201d . . . I toyed with it because it was so simple, but that\u2019s ultimately why I needed to use it because it was all you needed to say. It started at the top with the first line \u201cI\u2019ve seen the sun rise and watch it fall,\u201d you know, just imagery of things we all go through in life.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Honestly, I didn\u2019t think about the character at all. I don\u2019t know too much about the character other than he must have been loved for them to do this tribute to him. So it was easy to come up with. And because of the soap opera, and just life in general . . . you know, light and shade, light and shade, right? Yin and yang. The good, the bad, just over and over again, because that\u2019s all life is. I think I spent the morning with it and it came together relatively quickly.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RC Cates: <\/strong>One takeaway for students moving forward is it starts with a seed of: I have a script and I know the whole story of the character and I know how all the other characters interacted with him and I know his life story. I know his light and his shade. And so my first interpretation is, \u201cokay, in that world as a music supervisor, I have to be a Jack-of-all-trades, but whether I like jazz or not, I need to be able to find good jazz so that I can talk to people about creating something like it.\u201d So my first step is I\u2019m listening to all the tunes that I remember moved me the way I want the audience to be moved. When they hear a song for this then I get in touch with Brad, and Brad of course, has that vocabulary and starts to mention other artists.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We started throwing around songs and artists, and then you all have the expertise to harmonically create something that sounds authentic. And then Jeff, what you did brilliantly is the lyrics are sort of universal themes. Nothing is specific to that character yet. Every line really did fit that character in some way or another to the point that the audience thinks, \u201cOh my God, you must know everything about Kristoff.\u201d Because you wrote his life story here. And then Lydia, the audience feels your emotions in your singing. It was a home run in all those ways, which honestly I think is why it won.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1424\" height=\"830\" src=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Zoom-Call-with-Emmy-Winners.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18243\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Clockwise: Brad and Gaye Hatfield, Talia Smith-Muller, Jeff Meegan, Lydia Harrell, and RC Cates.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I want to come back to networking. Why is it so important to keep up with people and to keep your professional and personal relationships thriving and how has that benefited you all?<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RC Cates:<\/strong> I\u2019ve been doing this for a really long time. I live and die by my connections. I think it\u2019s probably pretty obvious to say this, but I tend to go back to the people that deliver consistently most often. Then on top of that, for me, I need to work with authentic people, genuine human beings. Obviously you need to be talented, but this group I\u2019m looking at here: genuine, authentic people that I can count on, on every level. Because sometimes it\u2019s not just about the music\u2014it\u2019s about understanding other nuances. Sometimes I have to ask composers and songwriters to do things like last-minute, and completely change the song. And \u201cOh, can you jump through that hoop for me? And can you do it by tomorrow at 9?\u201d And you know, it\u2019ll work with people who are flexible that way and understand that we\u2019re all working towards the same end goal anyway. So, you know, leave your egos at the door.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff Meegan: <\/strong>To hop on what RC was just saying, that I think it\u2019s very important to keep up with your network and keep in touch with people that do the same thing that you do or are in the same field as you . . . But on top of that, it\u2019s very important to keep in touch with and make friends with good people because you only want to work with good, nice people. We spend a lot of time working together and as artists, sometimes personalities can be difficult. So when you find people who you mesh with and get along with and can work with, that\u2019s really, really valuable. So, certainly keep up and nurture those relationships as much as you can.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gaye Tolan Hatfield: <\/strong>I think you have to really recognize people\u2019s strengths. I think when I was a younger person, I thought I had to do everything. And this idea of networking, it just didn\u2019t occur to me. But everybody here has something special that everyone else can\u2019t do. I will never sing like Lydia, and I can\u2019t do what Brad does, and he can\u2019t do what I do. I can\u2019t do what Jeff does, you know? We\u2019re pulling at everybody\u2019s strengths to make this thing come together. And you have RC, who is always so gracious and always extending himself saying how much he appreciates us too. And you have to do that too. You have to nurture that way in voicing your appreciation for what people do.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lydia Harrell:<\/strong> You really are building a foundation for later on. Sometimes it\u2019s immediate, but sometimes it\u2019s, I mean, Brad and I met in 2007, right? You just never know when it\u2019s going to happen. And so it\u2019s really important to stay on top of things. Even if you\u2019re not always saying, \u201cHey, I\u2019m still around,\u201d or whatever, making sure you\u2019re visible. So that\u2019s why social media and things like that are so important. Make sure you\u2019re always updating things. People always say, \u201cOh, I saw you singing on your Instagram\u201d and things like that. But don\u2019t make it just about you. Make sure you\u2019re also going and interacting and looking at what they\u2019re doing, and comment on that. And just share because you just don\u2019t know. I just think that\u2019s the beautiful thing about networking: you don\u2019t know when, who, or how, but it\u2019s helpful to have a big network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Brad Hatfield:<\/strong> One of the things about Berklee Online and the students that I have come through is that those are folks that know somebody that knows somebody and folks that I had in classrooms at Northeastern and Berklee. I am working with my students. My assistant is one of my former students from <em>Music Supervision<\/em> and she\u2019s crushing it. She was one of those people who delivered in the classroom. So please, students understand, this is not just about a grade and a grade point average and getting a certificate. You have the opportunity to impress not only your other classmates, which you should be trying to do, but you should be trying to impress those professors, especially ones that are dialed in and are working in the field. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berklee Online course authors Brad Hatfield and Gaye Tolan Hatfield have earned a 2022 Daytime Emmy Award, along with Lydia Harrell, Jeff Meegan, and RC Cates, for \u201cOutstanding Original Song.\u201d The winning track is titled \u201cGrateful For It All\u201d and appeared on the soap opera \u201cThe Young and the 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