Album sconosciuto (18/05/2015 15:51:08)

Love Is The Game

Korea Girl - Peon

1990 - This Was In Our 'Korg Nite' Heyday 
'Folk-Rock' Heaven
My Buddy, Jim Dean, Had A Korg Keyboard & Digital Recorder
So For Us... 'Boys Nite-Out' Was 'Korg Nite-in'
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I Felt I Could Express Myself In Darker Ways 
With The Safety Of A Collaborator
And Jim's Fabulous Improv Skills 
Made Him A Very Creative, Lyric Co-Writer 
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This Began On Guitar(s)
The Korg Drums & Keyboard Were Added
And Later Transferred To The Korg - (The Future) Digital
I Vaguely Recall Jim Saying He Read Somewhere 
'Not To Have Too Many Questions In A Song' 
We Both Thought... 'Oh, Really?'
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From '88-'94, Engineer Jim, Worked Many Sonic Miracles  
This Is One Of Them 
But For My Inexplicable Vocal Whelps...
This One Is Close To Perfect
It Got Sped-Up - Somewhere Along The Way 
(35 Years) For Tempo... And So Did The Voice 
But, The Bass Sounds Pretty Well-Played
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Lyrically, Jim & I Explore My Rarely Seen, Judgemental Side 
Musically, We Explore Nick Lowe's 'What's So Funny About Peace, Love & Understanding' - With Unmistakeable Beatle & Dylan Elements... 

HANGIN’ JUDGE

Has Anybody Ever Told You
That Your Eyes Are Made Of Stone?
Has Anybody Ever Told You
That You're In This Life Alone?
I'm Your Last Resort  
Just An Afterthought
When You Think You’re All Alone

Is There A Heart There? Or Just A Prairie?
Are You Attached To Him, Or What?
Does He Have Real Friends?
Does He Have Big Hands?
Can He Give You All I’ve Got?
I'm The Hangin' Judge 
And I'm Out To Lunch
With Your Darkest Afterthought

Devil Or Angel 
Adam & Eve
Born In A Manger  
Then Why Did You Leave?
I Might Have Told You 
If You Had Asked Me
That The Nights Get Kinda Long
You Want The Real Thing 
& You Want The Nasty &
You Want The Whole Thing For A Song
Now We're Both Adults
On The Test Results 
Of The Last Thing That Went Wrong

C 1990 james f. Dean & richard goldman

HANGIN' JUDGE

Indie-Pop bop about shedding masks and finding your way

Playing Pretend

Written & Recorded On Reel To Reel In 1977 
The Home Demo - This Was The First Pass
This Catchy Song, Was Buried
So The Songwriter Would Not Be
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No Rhymes Even Attempted In The Verse
This Was Kinda Punk & Edgy For Me
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But Hey - Why Not Be Edgy 
If No One's Gonna Hear It?

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THE ONLY THING I COULD DO

Can't Imagine Anything As Crazy 
As Falling In Love With You
But I Would've Been Crazy
If I Stayed Away
There Was No Decision 
I Loved Beyond Reason
I'm A Slave To My Heart
No Matter Where It Takes Me To
It's True  
It Was The Only Thing I Could Do
It Was The Only Thing I Could Do
The Only Thing I Could Do

Can't Believe I Never Picked-Up On 
Your Love For Me
I Can't Believe How Long
I Waited To Hear That
The First Was A Killer
The Next One Was Better
Now I'm Lost In Your Eyes
No Matter Where It Takes Me To
It's True  
It Was The Only Thing I Could Do
It Was The Only Thing I Could Do
The Only Thing I Could Do

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ONLY THING I COULD DO

1979 - Shout-Out To Robert Roll (Friend & Script Collaborator)
 For The Fab Foto - Authentically, 1979 
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'THAT NIGHT' Sounds Like A 1970s Who 'Single'
I Also Hear A Bit Of 'Petty' In The Chorus
Since The Original Title Was "That Night" 
And Since I Wrote It - I'm Officially Changing It Back
The Term 'Killing Time' Has Come To Be So Mis-Read
This Version Of 'That Night' (Nee 'Killing Time') 
Was Recorded About 5 Years Ago
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Clearly - Back In 1979  
This Was A Bit Too Frank...
And Never Really Saw The Light Of Day... 
I Did However Like It Enough To 'Play It Out' 
And Started Performing It By 1980 
When The Smoke, As It Were...Had Cleared
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This Is Possibly As Good As I Get... Lyrically
Yet It's Just Another Humble-Brag Diary Entry...
Based On A True Story
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THAT NIGHT (Nee: KILLIN" TIME)

It Wasn’t A Bad Night, That Night
Just Wasn’t All That Good
And When I Tried To Talk To You About It
I Didn’t Think I Could

We Were Staring At Stop-Lights, That Night
With Nothing To Say
And When I Turned To Look At You Baby
You Just Looked Away
Baby, You Just Looked Away

Cos Even The Waitress Could Tell
By The “Go Away” Look In Your Eyes
Even Your Husband Could Tell
We Were Both, Just Killing Time

We Came Back To My Place, That Night
Fell Down In My Bed
We Said All The Same Things, That Night
That We Always Had Said

And I Believed Them All, That Night
Bought Every Word
And How We Could Do It, That Night
Was Just So Totally Absurd
Yes, It Was Sooo Absurd

Cos Even The Waitress Could Tell
By The “Go Away” Look In Your Eyes
Even Your Husband Could Tell
We Were Both, Just Killing Time

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THAT NIGHT / KILLIN' TIME

Written In 1982
Piano/Vocal Recorded 'Live' 
In A Studio In The Valley
(Note - Facts Only As Good As My Memory)

My Childhood Friend, Richard Meyer 
Worked For "Fast-Folk" Magazine
Which Was 'Thee' 1970s Folk Music Magazine 
But Was Limping Along In The 80's 
Keeping Track Of The Greenwich Village Folk-Scene
And Had A Certain Cache In The Folk World
At Year's End, The Magazine Provided 
A Compilation Of Newly Recorded Songs 
For Magazine Subscribers
Which Were Basically... Compilations Of People & Songs 
Richard Loved - He Was The First To Record Suzanne Vega 
& Countless Others - Sadly Richard Died 
Over A Decade Or So Ago Of Parkinsons 
But Was Quite Brilliant In The Late 90s
To See The Internet Coming & The Need
To Get The Smithsonian Involved  
To Preserve HIS Fast-Folk Recordings
In the 21'st Century 
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As I Recall The Session Happened Around 1987 
Richard Was Putting Together A West Coast Fast-Folk Record
And I Believe Richard Had Asked Me To Play 'The Goodyears'
I Showed-Up With Deborah Holland To Sing The Harmony
We Found A Stand-Up Bass Player
Denny Croy & Recorded Goodyears 
After That 
Richard Asked Me To Hang-Out & 
Do Another Tune Later  
That Turn Out To Be This - Love Calling 
Which Had Been His Favorite Goldman Song
And Even I Was Shocked That The First Pass 
At This Four-Minute Piano-Thumper
Went So Well - I Was Vamping At The End 
For What Seemed Like Forever 
When I Looked-Up To The Control Room & 
Saw Richard Who Was Far From A Demonstrative Person
Standing Behind The Board Dancing & Waving For Me
To Keep Playing... 
Later I Had Said To Him... 'This Isn't A Folk Song'
He Whispered Back 'It's My Favorite Song Ever...'
It Appeared On Fast-Folk's Last Record 
"Lost In The Works"  Released In 1989?ish
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LOVE CALLING

There She Stood Like 
Something’s On Her Mind Like 
What’s A Girl To Do
She’s Usually Shy But
When She Caught Your Eye She 
Had To Speak To You 
You Look So Familiar 
Like Someone She Once Knew
But He’s Gone & No One Can
Take His Place
And You Seem To Have 
A Familiar Face
I Hear Love Calling  
I Hear Love Calling 
I Hear Love Calling 
But It Could Be The Hillside Strangler
Love Calling  
Love Calling

What’s His Problem She
Wonders Out Loud He
Seems To Be So Cool
Is He One-In-A-Million Or
An Innocent Civilian Or
Just Your Basic Fool
Is He The Exception
Or Is He Just The Rule
But He’s Gone & No One Can 
Take His Place
And You Just Have 
A Familiar Face
I Hear Love Calling  
I Hear Love Calling 
I Hear Love Calling 
But It Could Be The Hillside Strangler
Love Calling – I Hear Love Calling

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LOVE CALLING

An ode to the brilliant fictional and national treasures that are Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. 
Instrumental, Production: Oussama Arichi
Vocals, Lyrics, Mix: Nadia Selvaggi (with Phil Collins' In the Air Tonight in the outro) 
"Pulling over to use a coin-operated payphone" -- from Kim Hughs' article, 'Miami Vice Turns 40: From the Clothes to the Cast, How the ’80s Classic Reinvented TV'

Crockett & Tubbs by Oussama Arichi & Nadia Selvaggi

1988 
For X-Mas My Fabulous Wife 
Gave Me A Tascam 4-Track Cassette Recorder  
A Home-Recording Game Changer  
So Light & Travel Friendly 
That I Took It On A Winter-Weekend In The Mountains & Made This 
I Was Trying-Out A New Piece Of Equipment 
I Didn't Have Anything To Say
I Wasn't Trying To Make Art  
I Was Simply Trying To Learn A New Machine 
And Somehow Told My Life Story  
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Cool Stuff Happens 
When You Least Expect It 
My Uh, Fabulous Wife 
Has Never Been A Big Fan Of This One
Having Been A Foil In Verse Three
I Hope She'll Make Peace With It 
I'm Entertaining Myself 
I'm Singing A Bit Like Gram Parsons 
My Casual Chatty Style Is My Childhood Hero, Rick Nelson
The Guitar Licks Are Simple, Like John Fogerty 
And This Sounds Like The End Credits Song  Of My Life

CHAIN LINK FENCE

Well, If The World Was Such A Wicked Place
God Only Knows 
Why A Dog Would Catch A Tennis Ball?
Why Would We Have Woody?  
Or Even Sam Goody?
It’s A Wonder That We’re Sad At All
I Remember When Debbie Said 
She Wanted New Shoes
I Remember That It Made 
A Lot Of Sense
But Its Nothing Like 
Four Or Five Inches Of Snow
Piled High-Upon A
Chain Link Fence

Daddy Told Me I Was Crazy 
Momma Knew That He Was Right
But She Didn’t Let On Too Much
I Wasn’t Gonna Listen 
I Was Packin-Up The Gibson
Goin-Out To Try The Goldman Touch
Well You Can Rock 
And You Can Roll It 
But You Never Can 
Control It
Cause It Doesn’t Make 
A Lick Of Sense
When You’re Lookin At 
Four Or Five Inches Of Snow
Piled High-Upon A 
Chain Link Fence

There’s An Old Proverb 
From A Guy Named Herb
Who Really Said It Best
Girls & Boys 
Make A Lot Of Noise
But Life Makes All The Rest

We Were A-Huggin & A-Grabbin  
In A Cozy Little Cabin
In A Town I Like To Call 
Pine Cove
Had A Run-In With A Local  
Who Got A Little Vocal
Bout The Way 
My Little Woman Drove
Any Similarity 
To Actual Reality
Is Purely A Coincidence
When You’re Looking At 
Four Or Five Inches Of Snow
Piled High-Upon A 
Chain Link Fence

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CRY BABY, YEAH

Album sconosciuto (18/05/2015 15:38:44)

Too Late

Thanks For Listening
I've Been Writing & Recording Songs 
Since Age 14 In 1964   
In Order To Remember Them
I Had To Record Them 
By The Late '70s, I Realized 
I Had To Be My Own Favorite Artist  
And Keep Track Of The Songs I'd Written 
Who Knew They'd Keep Me Company In My Old Age?
This Is A 'Musical Diary' 
Of My Life For The Last 60 Years
By Clicking "Playlists" 
You Can Follow My 'Progressions'
By The Decades

HANGIN' JUDGE

Richard Goldman

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