This is one of my very first songs, written after learning a couple of chords. It was a melancholy period in my life when the prospect of finding true love seemed very distant. The song was inspired as I was reading the novel “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” by author Tom Robbins. Update: Many pages
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Here’s a tune about a wager with the Devil over the nature of God and the meaning of existence. All the singer has to do to get everything he wants and not sell his soul to the Devil is to correctly answer a simple question: Is it Krishna, Marx, Mohammed, Buddha, Jesus Christ or Zeus?
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This songwriter demo was recorded in 1984 and is the only time I’ve ever been in a studio with “real” musicians where I was completely in control. That’s the late, great Keith Allen on two guitar parts, Marcus Webster on percussion, and Phil Hersch playing bass and engineering. I wisely only sing. This is the
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Every songwriter should know the history of one of the most important tunes in American music. The melody was originally a sea shanty, published in 1865, called “The Ship that Never Returned,” by songwriter Henry Clay Work (who also wrote “My Grandfather’s Clock”). It’s first incarnation as a train song was as “The Wreck of
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This is a heartfelt love song with a baseball theme. I wrote it into my first novel, The Energy Caper, or Nixon in the Sky With Diamonds, in a scene in which two characters, Jenny and McGill, who have known each other only a couple of days, have attended a baseball game. Afterward, unknown to
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If you enjoy singing, whether it’s on stage, in the car, or in the shower, this joyous, uplifting, easy-to-sing tune is guaranteed to brighten your day. I singing in the shower trying to cheer myself up when I mashed together some happy songs from my youth: “Whoopie Ti Yi Yo,” “Zippity Do Dah”, and “Hi
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I wrote this song after reading an article on how the advertising industry breaks down the population by age groups, 18 to 34, 35 to 49, 50 to 64, 65 and up. I was in the 18 to 34 cohort and fast approaching the 35 milestone. That was 35 years ago, and having just turned
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I tried to put a couple of bumper stickers up for sale on the do-it-yourself sites Zazzle.com and CafePress.com, but they wouldn’t touch them due to threats of lawsuits from the NRA. If you don’t see many anti-NRA bumper stickers, you now know why. Any decent lawyer will tell you it would be totally legal
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Unrequited love is an ordeal that almost everyone, at one time or another, has suffered through. It’s even worse when you know you don’t have a chance because the person with whom you are in love has a crush on somebody else. For either a male or female singer. “Somebody” By Scotty and the
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Here’s a heartbreaking tune about that perennial country music theme: divorce, and who gets the kids. A forlorn dad doesn’t understand why they are breaking up and dreams of getting back together with a wife who is lying to the judge while trying to dump him. This song is obviously for a male singer.
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