Bumba Down Low

Quarter-inch reel-to-reel tape cut up and spliced back together in random order. (This is only an excerpt. The full piece is 10½ minutes long. You're welcome.)

Movement Without Progression (1983)

"Every little corner that's in my heart belongs to you."

Every Little Corner

With special thanks to Tim Daniels
and the University of Iowa Electronic Music Studio
(and apologies to Wallace Stevens)

The House Was Quiet (1973)

Tell Me What To Do

Kelly McNulty, vocals
Manny Rodriguez, sax

I was such a fool
To ignore you back in school
It really is a crime
That I wasted so much time
I waited far too long
Now my love for you grows stronger every day

We set off smoke alarms
When we're in each others arms
Halfway out the door
I'll be coming back for more
I work the whole day thru
But I only think of you and wonder: Hey!

Tell me what to do
To deserve a special girl like you
Tell me what to do
Cause I can't imagine love without you

I know when I come home
That I'll never be alone
You ask me how I feel
And I know you'll make it real
You point the way to go
And you always seem to know just what to say

I'm with you till the end
You're my lover, you're my friend
I'll never say goodbye
And I'll never make you cry
Don't tell me it's a dream
If I'm dreamin', let me dream my life away

Tell me what to do
To deserve a special girl like you...

ⓒ Dale McFarland

Tell Me What To Do

Lamento Venezuela

Marchel Ivery, tenor sax
Theo Neugent, trumpet
Kelly Durbin, piano
James Gilyard, bass
Alan Green, drums

Goodmorning And Goodbye (instrumental)

Toni Redd, vocal

Through the trees comes the dawn
By your side lights the sun
Mockingbird says its song
Day's begun

In your arms, in your eyes
There's that look, that disguise
And the words go unsaid
Out of reach in your head
Like a verse left unread
You must know how I feel
Is my world so unreal
Turn the page, close the door
You don't care anymore

Someday soon you'll say goodmorning and goodbye
And you won't need to tell me why
You'd rather go than live a lie
Love's become just a word
Like a bird that can't fly

Did my part for romance
Gave my heart, did my dance
With my eyes open wide
Took a chance

In the night, empty sky
There's that look in your eye
When you hold me this way
I don't know what to say
I won't beg you to stay
I can see in your smile
You'll be gone in a while
Why you're here I don't know
Please just say it and go

Someday soon we'll be just faces in the crowd
I'll see your eyes across the room
I'll laugh too much and talk too loud
I won't cry — maybe now and then —
Wond'ring how the world might have been

I know love is just a footprint in the snow
It disappears when morning comes
And then there's nothing left to show
Someday soon we'll be just faces in the crowd
I'll see your eyes across the room
I'll laugh too much and talk too loud
Someday soon you'll say goodmorning and goodbye
And you won't need to tell me why
You'd rather go than live a lie

ⓒ Dale McFarland