There was an old man who was kind of odd
he didn't get drunk but he'd sit and talk to God
Got out of this town and went to California
but if you are looking for something out there I gotta warn ya


Where ever you are you are
you never have to look to very far
ah serenity, never gone change what will never change
but if you're wondering about a shooting star
just ask Jimi Hendrix guitar

I've been to church but never was religious 
Run out of luck but I just get superstitious
But I confessed a seep desperation
Isolated by my separation

Where ever you are you are
you never have to look to very far
ah serenity, never gone change what will never change
but if you're wondering about a shooting star
just ask Jimi Hendrix guitar

Someone asked why I did this on piano/  
 perhaps this is a "recovery" song .   This is me wondering why some survive and others don't. 

So this song is about loss and redemption, framed within the loss of a great genius in my book  who died too  young .. What  it means when someone so great drives them selves to their own demise. And who could could judge this but Jimi Hendrix own guitar which now no longer has it's master to make it sing. so it couldn't be on guitar cause there is no one to play it.  He is gone.

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Jimi Hendrix's Guitar

I walk along the streets of my town but it feels like I don't belong'
I do the things that we did together but everything just seems wrong
Every minute baby since you've been gone.

Girl You've Got to make love, You've got to make love bring you back
You've Got to make love, You've got to make love bring you back

Now I'm the master of my four walls I've got cable and color TV
Like the king inside his castle but it feels like a jail to me
Every minute baby, since you set me free

Girl you've got to make love, make love bring you back
You've Got to make love, You've got to make love bring you back



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You've got to make love bring you back

I went to a party, with all the famous monsters
Frankenstein and Dracula everyone was there
and the room started to spin cause we was drinkin gin
And I tied and I tried but i could not get away

I took a trip to the other side
It is the side where the spirits collide

Was a tall blond dragon who had her tale a waggin
A real fire breather lit my cigarette
I knew it was a sin but I just kept giving in
Though I tried and I tried but I could not get away

And though a spirit lives a body dies
There are some things that you can't survive

I have become one, a famous monster
I've crossed into the other side
And if you see one, a famous monster
Just don't look in her eyes

It started getting light,we all ran out of fright.
Godzilla on a pilla sleepy creatures of the night.
The room kept swayin cause the band kept playin
And when I started leaving I knew something wasn't right

I took a trip to the other side
It is the side where the spirits collide

I have become one, a famous monster
I've crossed into the other side
And if you see one, a famous monster
Have a look in these eyes

The Halloween Song

Something for Halloween from Ivory league.

IVORY LEAGUE _ The monster 4track version

Lou Reed  passing made me remember this unreleased track  I did with Roland S Howard from the Birthday Party, a seminal punk band(Nick Cave etc), Recorded in New Orleans.  On this day that Lou passes I present this unreleased song as a tribute to both and all who have passed.

FT Rowland S Howard - Lonesome Town - RIP Lou Reed and Rowland

Available now on iTunes 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ivory-christmas-feat.-dave/id775235258       
 Why “White Christmas” almost wasn't a hit
                        New single “Ivory Christmas” reveals the truth about White Christmas.

And why it almost wasn't a hit.

In this “story song” Dave Sale of Ivory League tells us about his uncle, pianist  Roger Stearns, who together with Cole Porter owned the 123 club in NYC back in the forty's. In the new single “Ivory Christmas”  Sale tells us how Stearns convinced Irving Berlin that White Christmas was the hit from his show Holiday Inn. (Billboard article June 5th,1943)  “Berlin thought people might not want to hear a guy in Hollywood complain that there is no snow” says Ivory. “Berlin apparently hated snow”

 Ivory Christmas comes out off the heals of another seasonal offering by the band called “The Monster” 

“The Monster” wound up  a bit of a hit with top 20 spins at WZEW in Mobile and several others. . “We were lucky to get anything at all since the CD for radio stations really didn't get in the right hands on time. But a commercial station in Mobile Alabama noticed the song online and requested a digital file so they could start playing “The Monster” immediately. Which they did giving enough spins to top the likes of McCartney, Cold play and Haim. 

“Its an odd thing really, I certainly have no intention of being a seasonal writer but I felt  a little defensive when I heard someone say “oh that's just a Halloween song”. And then I remembered my great uncle and one of the biggest records of all time “White Christmas”. 
So I thought here then, let me tell you about a little Christmas song.” 

Sale has music on Atlantic under the name Camus. Songs on TV such as Baywatch. He is the producer and writer of critically acclaimed  Katharine Whalen  “Dirty Little Secret” which was featured in the Oxford American, and presented on the World Cafe. 

Ivory Christmas will be available DEC 2014 at all usual digital carriers. Pre orders available. 

https://soundcloud.com/ivory-league
http://ivory-league.org/
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For further info contact Pandora
310 903 3978
theivoryleagueband@gmail.com 

Ivory (White) Christmas

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IVORY LEAGUE __ OUCH    ft Sanity RM

Video 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCryukRFYYg&feature=youtu.be
I am waking up to the sound of the sound of the world
I'm getting dressed for the show
I'm washing out all the dirt all the dirt from our clothes
I'm on the bus moving slow

I comb the city for my job, don't even know what I do
I hear them say it's improving, Maybe it's happened for you


I'm soaking up all the love all the love in the world, 
I'm moving up to the high ground
I m moving up to a spiritual; wealth now I'm rich
taking my place for the rebound

You bought an Illusion, It's time to turn you around
cut out your citizen number baby, we're going underground

Fade out the world fade out to black
This must be real it's so out of whack.

I am waking up to the sound of the sound of the world
I'm getting dressed for the show
I'm washing out all the dirt all the dirt from our clothes
I'm on the bus moving slow

You bought an Illusion, It's time to turn you around
cut out your citizen number baby, we're going underground

Fade out the world fade out to black
This must be real it's so out of whack

IVORY LEAGUE __ The Future Song

IVORY LEAGUE__Runaway

I Was Blind

Ivory_League - Free -  the FIZZ REMIX

On My Way Way -demo - rough

Famous Monster

Happy Halloween! A reworking of the original. 

Famous Monsters 2024

Check out vid
https://youtu.be/LwM2bLXURdo

NEW!

Tracy City  - by The Lords of Grundy

Tracy City is a song whose lyric is based on the prosecution's theory which convicted a young man visiting Grundy County Tennessee  in 2006. It could not be further from the truth. It is used to illustrate the power of story to cover up misdeeds by others.

Featured  In video is Juge: Vocs, guitar,   Zach Rohrer: Keys  Sam Schmidt: fiddle - Tom Gilibert: drums Investigator DK : guitar, horse head 

Investigator DK Sale, who grew up in the northeast with a musical life and brushes with success turned to investigating innocence cases with a new twist, entering the rural mountain community as a horror film director as a way to gather information on the murder victim Malcolm Burrows who most were in fear of talking about. Who prosecutors depicted as a sickly shade tree mechanic while convicting Adam Braseel, a young man visiting old high-school friends driving his mothers gold colored car. Burrows would turn out to be nothing of the sort but the center of a pill mill fraud ring with local doctors and a pharmacy owned by the Sheriff’s family.

If there ever was a time to get back to music this was it. Despite the initial ruse, he has made many friendly relationships with the people of Grundy County and feels for the people whose lives too often have been affected by the injustice and corruption brought on by greed. The coverup allowing “business as usual” to erode the fabric of good people plagued with problems created by good ole boy politics and those in power turning a blind eye. Being doubly intrigued to discover, in this poorest of counties, was the unlikely “mountain” community where Rosa Parks came to learn from the union organizers of the past coal mining days at Highlander Folk Center, located but a few miles from the murder scene in Tracy City,  where Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie converged. Where Dr King came to give a speech and then was framed a communist. All this calling DK to write his own song in the mountain tale.

To sing the song he turned to Juge, who DK knew from upstate NY folk circles as someone who “wears his soul on his sleeve,” capturing the heart of the song. Juge, an exceptional songwriter of his own right agreed to come in as a singer for Tracy City being compelled by the material, and relating to the injustice -- wanting to help bring awareness for the young man wrongfully convicted. 

Bringing in a few other local players, The Lords of Grundy are formed. A name taken from a chapter of the story itself. Those who ride the high mountain passes to feel the freedom from the troubles of life. Communicating the plight of many young people in the region with lack of opportunities found elsewhere. Good people too often turning to drugs and crime who’s lives are essentially ignored by the powers-that-be to fix the problems. The worst just enriching themselves off the cycle of crime and drugs. 

DK is working on a full scale documentary/ series on the case called Fear The Hills.
For more information on the case go to Fear The Hills or DKsale.net

Tracy City -

IVORY LEAGUE - Who's sorry now?

Wonderland

Time Bomb

On My Way

The Music of DK Sale
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