Mack The Knife - vocal cover by BillyCisco
•Written by:  Kurt Weill/E. Bertolt Brecht/Marc Blitzstein
•Written in 1928 as “Moritat” or “Theme from the Threepenny Opera” aka “The Beggar’s Opera” and introduced in that production by Weill’s wife, Lotte Lenya
Thank you for listening my friends!!!

Mack The Knife - BillyCisco vocal cover-written by:  Kurt Weill/E. Bertolt Brecht/Marc Blitzstein

Blue Skies  - cover by BillyCisco of Irving Berlin's song made famous by Willie Nelson, as well as many others. BillyCisco vocals with backing.
This is a tribute to Jody Payne long time guitarist for Willie Nelson, who just passed August 10th, 2013
Thank you for listening my friends.

Blue Skies -  BillyCisco  - cover - written by Irving Berlin, style of Willie Nelson

This is my cover of "I Hope You Dance" ,  a crossover country pop song written by Mark D. Sanders and Tia Sillers, and recorded by country singer Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert, as well as Ronan Keating the Irish singer/songwriter. Thank you for listening!

I Hope You Dance   -  BillyCisco - cover- song by Sanders and Siller - SONG227

Gettin' Jumpy - BillyCisco - original -- SONG232

Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down - written by Kris Kristofferson. Made famous by Johnny Cash. My version of  the great song.

Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down - vocal cover - BillyCisco

"You Are So Beautiful" is a song written by Dennis Wilson, Billy Preston, and Bruce Fisher. It was first recorded by Preston and made popular by Joe Cocker.--   My version.  Thank you for listening!

'You Are So Beautiful' - cover- Joe Cocker style   - SONG239

Vocal cover of 'Green Eyed Lady' by Sugarloaf. Written by Jerry Corbetta, J.C. Phillips, and David Riordan. Released 1970.
 This is my version. Thank you for listening!!  BC

Green Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf cover - SONG241

My vocal rendition of one of my favorite songs done by B.B. King. Thank you for listening! 
"The Thrill Is Gone" is a slow minor-key blues song written by West coast blues musician Roy Hawkins and Rick Darnell in 1951. Hawkins' recording of the song reached number six in the Billboard R&B chart in 1951.[1] In 1970, "The Thrill Is Gone" became a major hit for B.B. King. Subsequently, many blues and other artists have recorded their interpretations of the song.

The Thrill Is Gone  - BillyCisco vocal of a B.B. King hit -SONG249

All instrumentation-guitars x 3,  keyboards x 3 , drums.-BillyCisco
This is a melody I created in base form 25 years ago and not until a year ago did I add some guitar lead and then recently added the Keys and drums. It is unedited and complete raw 1st take each track.
Thank you for listening! I hope you enjoy!    Billy


Sunbeams ( Breaking Through ) - 65a -original -BillyCisco

Dance Me Up - original BillyCisco. Re-mastered.  Thank you for listening.  Have a great year everyone.       BillyCisco
BillyCisco- keyboards x3, vocals,

DANCE ME UP   -  original -BillyCisco  12/24-25/2013 - SONG005

Original, all instruments,- keyboards, bass, drums.
 Thank you for listening!!!!

YOU CAN DANCE (So Do It) - BillyCisco original - SONG007

Edelweiss  -  Kathy Songbird and BillyCisco - duet vocal

Music by BillyCisco, Lyrics by Lynn Nichols. Slow Rock

I Weep For The Innocents  - BillyCisco and Lynn Nichols collaboration

I Weep For The Innocents -BillyCisco and Lynn Nichols.
BillyCisco and Lynn Nichols collaboration. Lyrics by Lynn Nichols and music and arrangement by BillyCisco.  Lyrics adapted from a poem by Lynn Nichols - I Weep For The Innocents -

I Weep For The Innocents -BillyCisco and Lynn Nichols------song 16

Just Want To Be With You -- SONG042.WAV

Just Want To Be With You --Cover of a Chris Rea song. SONG042.WAV  2

Fire and Rain - BillyCisco vocals
James Taylor cover. Backing track.


Fire And Rain - BillyCisco - James Taylor cover

Summer Wind - BillyCisco vocals Frank Sinatra cover. 

Summer Wind -  vocals by BillyCisco - Frank Sinatra cover

Blueberry Hill -BillyCisco vocals.
 This is a cover-demo
 Original song by Fats Domino

Blueberry Hill -BillyCisco vocals cover -song by Fats Domino

Thinking Of You -(C) by Peter Evans with BillyCisco backing.
Peter Evans song, vocals and guitar.
BillyCisco Keyboards, bass, drums.

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Thinking Of You - by Peter Evans with BillyCisco

BillyCisco - vocals 
A tribute cover song to Consuelo Velázquez, who died January 22, 2005, at the age of 84.
 
Consuelo Velázquez is one of Mexico's famous modern songwriters. She wrote  "Bésame Mucho" – before she was twenty.. She was asked, many years later, if love had inspired the song and she replied that she had written it before she had ever been kissed, and said that the entire song was a "product of imagination".
Thank you for listening!!!! Billy

Besame Mucho - Vocals by BillyCisco

Beyond the Sea - by Jack Lawrence
Sung by BillyCisco 

Jack Lawrence, a legendary songwriter who penned the lyrics for such chart-toppers as “Tenderly,” “All or Nothing at All,” and “Beyond the Sea” died on March 15th, 2009, at the age of 96.
 
Lawrence will forever be remembered as a timeless songwriter whose lyrics helped launch many careers. Although he never gained the level of recognition his peers Irving Berlin or George Gershwin did, Lawrence was considered of the best in the business. Artists who’ve recorded his songs include Frank Sinatra, Rosemary ClooneyNat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, and Tony Bennett.


Beyond The Sea - vocals by BillyCisco

Nights In White Satin - Vocals By BillyCisco
Re-recorded, remastered. 10-18-12
 Much better!!!! I hope you enjoy!!!
Thank you for listening to this version!!!! Billy

Nights In White Satin  - vocals by BillyCisco

I Would Change It All by BillyCisco 
Original C) 2012
Vocals and Piano

I Would Change It All - original by BillyCisco

Angel Eyes -Vocals by BillyCisco  dec/2012
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Angel Eyes by BillyCisco - Jeff Healey cover

I Am Awake - original by BillyCisco

When Sally Comes Around - Ray Cullen and BillyCisco
Ray Cullen title and music and instrumentation.
BillyCisco lyrics and vocal melody.   1-7-13
Thank you for listening!

When Sally Comes Around (II)Ray Cullen & BillyCisco

KANSAS CITY - by BillyCisco
All instruments and vocals
Recorded by: Wilbert Harrison
Written by: (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, in 1951)
Single : Released 1959, B-Side - "Listen My Darling"
Album: "Kansas City" - 1965
Note: First recorded in 1952 by "Little Willie Littlefield 


Kansas City - by BillyCisco cover -all instruments

SPLASH - BillyCisco original instrumental
1-18-13   All instruments
Thank for listening!!! Hope you dance!!!!  -Billy

SPLASH  - BillyCisco -  original

THOSE PERFECT WORDS -C- By BILLYCISCO  - original 2/3/13
Billy - Vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass, drums, mix-engin.
A song I was waiting for the right moment to finish. 
I hope you all like it!!!! Namaste!! Thank you for listening my dear friends!!!

THOSE PERFECT WORDS - original -c-

BillyCisco is a singer-songwriter/native of Colorado, born in Denver.. He is self taught on bass and guitar, and a few years ago has taught  himself to play piano and to compose songs on the keyboard. 

Billy started his career in music in his teens 1972 playing bass for two years, for the latin rock band 'Atzlan' and 'MetaRock ', it's predecessor.  He played for two years with the The 'John Carter Trio', headed by his uncle Johnny Carter, rock and roll pianoman extraordinaire, with incredible Mark Aiello on drums.
 Billy played with several hard rock bands now and then but maintained his commitment to blues, boogie, rock and roll, jazz- rock fusion and latin rock.
 Billy's early career was cut short because of the Viet Nam War, as he enlisted in April of 1975. He did nothing regarding music during that time sad to say!

Released honorably from the US Navy at the end of the conflict in 1976, Billy wanted to just slow it all down and marry, have kids and write songs. It did not go that way. Many years of grief and sadness over a broken marriage did lead to more love songs and sad ballads. The loss of some very dear friends over the years has led to several inspirational gospel rock songs. Billy has written some politically charged songs expressing dissatisfaction with the PTB globalists and their agenda of control, those of which will be finished and presented here as well as they are completed in studio. 
 Having learned the bass, Billy moved on with teaching himself guitar and song composition. He never had enough time with family responsibilities to really get anything going and did not do much in the years that followed except to write a few love songs and ballads here and there.
 Decades went by with no chance among the many tragedies that came and went, to really work on any real project songs. He kept the music alive in his mind and heart. Then in 2005 after nothing for years, came a chance to tour as lead vocalist and back up rythem guitar, with Dale Axtell and his band and some free recording studio time. Tragedy struck and Billy's mother, Lila, fell very ill and almost died from a stroke and infection. He had to pass on the tour and recording and instead he helped nurse her back. While caring for her, at the suggestion of his brother Dale, Billy, began a friendship with Kent Metzler who has been into music in some way or another for years and has quite a collection of instruments, some very old.

 The two of them began to create and record, rough, one take studio renditions with Billy on guitar and Kent Metzler on Bass. The sound was not full enough and though there was Rik Chance, who would sit in on woodwinds and Eva Dennis on saxophone and violin, Billy felt compelled to learn some piano chords to fill in on their songs. Once he got hooked playing keyboards that was it, no turning back. Billy has been playing piano since. He is entirely self taught on the bass, on guitars as well as keyboards and has a fair handle on the drums.       ( pssst... he does not read music-lol..uhem! sshhsh)
  Billy does most of his own recording but shares some of that with Kent Metzler who does some track recording at LRStudios.

 There are guests that appear on a few of the tracks such as Kent Metzler, Eva Dennis, Rik Chance, and Dercy Marshall. There some collaborations of BillyCisco with Patrick Douglas Spike, Kathy Songbird, Clair Brennan, Ray Cullen, and Peter Evans.
 Billy's has endured years of struggle against all odds, through many tragedies, many heartaches to finally be able to devote what time is available in between caring for his mother and their dogs, that is to give back to the world some music from his heart ..... to enrich the lives of those around him.


BillyCisco

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