Caitlin Toom, voice
Cole Tinney, piano
Michael Wagler, acoustic bass

Recorded, mixed and mastered at Deep Cove Music Studios in Deep Cove, BC by Justin Wong.


 
This is a part of a recent demo of mine from early March, 2013 - brand new and fresh off the press.

We daydreamers owe this beautiful and melancholy melody to Cy Coleman, one of the classiest tux-adorned men to touch the keys. I have heard a couple lovely renditions - notably those of Fiona Apple and Frank Sinatra - and couldn't resist taking my own shot when I fell in love with Joseph Allan McCarthy's beautiful poetry.

"I'm sentimental, so I walk in the rain
I've got some habits even I can't explain
Could start for the corner, turn up in Spain
But why try to change me now?
 
I sit and daydream, I've got daydreams galore
Cigarette ashes, there they go on the floor
I'll go away weekends, leave my keys in the door
But why try to change me now?
 
Why can't I be more conventional?
People talk, people stare, so I try
But that's not for me, 'cause I can't see
My kind of crazy world go passing me by
 
So, let people wonder, let 'em laugh, let 'em frown
You know I'll love you till the moon's upside down
Don't you remember I was always your clown?
Why try to change me now?"

"Why Try To Change Me Now"

Caitlin Toom is a Vancouver-based musician and songwriter whose musical origins juxtapose Dixieland jazz, folk-influenced harmonies and lyrical alt-rock and soul. Caitlin has performed with a variety of different musical acts from crooning in 1930s fashion with a traditional big band orchestra to fronting a 13-piece funk and soul band. Today she plays various venues around metro Vancouver while working as a recording artist.