A brief check-in: I wrote There’s Gonna Be Baseball Again when figuring out my taxes. I always talk baseball with my accountant as his son is a star college player projected to be the #1 or #2 selection in the upcoming major league draft. In a normal year that would mean a big payday of
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Trump needs a nickname, and America needs a sure-fire, sing-along song to energize the crowds in the campaign to defeat him. A new parody, “Donnie Dough,”or “Hey Donnie Donnie,” does both. It is based on a tune written by Woody Guthrie as “Hey Lolly Lolly” and was recorded by Pete Seeger, the Limeliters and
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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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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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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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As a songwriter I hear “Go! Susanna” as one of the most fun songs a band could ever do. The song is taken from my novel, The Energy Caper, or Nixon in the Sky With Diamonds, where it is 1971, in Paris. A 24 year-old American student, working as a go-go dancer under
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“It’s OK” was written in the early 1990’s, but it was too complex for me to do well (barre chords). It only came together late last year when I decided to really try to improve my guitar chops. I went back to my “incomplete” files and this one was at the top of the
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