After All was one of the first songs I wrote, in 1978, consisting of 2 verses with an instrumental break. In 2003, I added a bridge and a third verse. The song was recorded on GarageBand software; a YouTube video was shot using the built-in camera on my iMac. Also available is a downloadable MP3 [...]
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squints on a triple
01Jan10I finally got around to making a YouTube video for Squints on a Triple, a song I wrote and recorded in 2008 based on a true story concerning a game of Scrabble played with daughter Jennie.
At the same time, I just discovered that my recording of Squints was the winner of the 2008 BoardGameGeek.com contest [...]
this isn’t hollywood
30Nov09I wrote This Isn’t Hollywood in 1981, recorded it in 2008, and just made a new video. In the video, which includes animated faces of Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, and James Stewart, the final “celebrity” image is of a young Billy Joel, who wrote Say Goodbye to Hollywood five years earlier, in 1976. [...]
just another video
25Oct09Here’s a new video for an old song (Just Another), actually the first song I recorded using garageBand software more than two years ago. The song itself was written in 1980. The old mp3/lyric page is here.
long distance love affair
11Oct09I wrote Long Distance Love Affair in 1978 and it is, as far as I remember, the first real song I wrote. Although it was written on piano, This version is recorded using acoustic guitar. My Flip camcorder was set up on its tripod, so here’s the live video with guitar, vocals, and a single [...]
maybe a video…
27Sep09I wrote this song (Maybe) last year, and posted the mp3 here at that time. This is a new video for the tune, shot in one take with my Flip camcorder, and edited with Final Cut Express.
prisoner of art
20Sep09This new song, like Shrinkwrap, is a commentary on art. By coincidence, I was able to incorporate images of the architecture Pritzker Prize Laureates, on display in Sibley Hall at Cornell, in the YouTube video for the song, but the lyrics are not directed toward them in particular (having been written before the exhibition was [...]
suburban kid
19Apr09I wrote Suburban Kid sometime in 1979 and proceeded to forget some of the lyrics, so the current version includes some anachronistic ideas (given the premise that this is a 1980s song) that I added in 2002. The YouTube video was added May 3, 2009.
rollo on iTunes!
26Jan09Rollo, the rock’n’roll group from the early 1980s that consisted of myself, brother Kurt, and songwriter Dan Smullyan, is now on iTunes. Search directly for your favorite songs from the “Don’t Look” album, or search under “Rollo Don’t Look” to preview or purchase any of the 15 tunes. Of course, you can still buy the actual [...]
maybe
08Jan09Here’s a new song called maybe (once there, click on the small “speaker” icon to listen). The lyrics include the following rhyme scheme spread out over three chorus sections: confusing-turning-keep her / losing-yearning-cheaper / refusing-squirming-sleeper / defusing-churning-sweeper / bruising-burning-deeper / choosing-learning-steeper. This song features my first and only harmonica solo.
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