Once again your songs are always perfect to my ears. There really is something special with your melodic sensibilities and way with a lyric. Added to my Richard G playlist

2007  
I Was 57  
I Wanted To See If I Could Still 'Laurel Canyon' 
I Wanted The Guitars To Sound Like #thebyrds 
Instead They Sound More Like Bees  
Ozzie & Harriet Nelson's Boy, Rick
Was A Childhood Hero 
Whereas, Elvis Was Demonstrative 
Ricky (He Grew Into Rick) Was Understated 
Instead Of His Hips, He Swiveled His Jaw 
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Growing Seems To Be About 
Surviving Awkward Moments & 
Taking Away Something Helpful 
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When You Have A Lot Of Monkeys Typing
It's 'Mathematically Likely'That 'Eventually 
One Monkey Will Create Something Brilliant
I've Posted Almost 300 Tracks
This Is About As Close To Perfect As I Got
This Is My Brilliant Monkey... 
Recorded On #garageband
I Play & Sing Everything
1977 Photo Booth Shot: With Kerren Brull

ALMOST OVER YOU

I Arrive Like 
Footsteps At Your Door
You Hardly Even Know 
Your Old “Mi Amor”
I Try To Jog Your Memory 
With A Humorous Account  
Of How I Accidentally Ended-Up Here

Across The Room 
A Guy Sits In A Chair  
He Heard The Doorbell Ring 
And Wants To Know Who’s There
Tell Him It’s Just Someone 
That You Used To Know
Someone From A Thousand Years Ago

I’m Almost Over You
And The Way You Look At Me
I’m Almost Over You
And All The Memories
I’m Almost Over You
And You Are So Completely Over Me

I Harken Back 
To All The Days Gone By
You Refuse To Harken 
And We Both Know Why
It’s Better To Forget 
Is What Forgetful People Say
And Sometimes Memories 
Just Get In The Way

I Realize I’m 
Better Off Outside
Away From All The Shadows 
That You Try To Hide
Apart From Looking Foolish
I Feel Just A Little Dumb
Next Time I Will Call 
Before I Come

I’m Almost Over You
And The Way You Look At Me
I’m Almost Over You
And All The Memories
I’m Almost Over You
And You Are So Completely Over Me

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ALMOST OVER YOU

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

1987 
This Was From The 'Shaky Ground' Era  
(1987 LA Oct. Earthquake)
A Very White British R&B Thing
Think Elvis Costello... 'Sneaky Feelings'
From 'My Aim Is True' 1977 
With A Touch Of The 'Stalk' To It  
I Played Electric Guitars & 
Added A Keyboard Bass Then
I Tapped Along On A Late-70s Drum Machine 
And Recorded This On My Tascam 4-Track
Special Thanks To Me 
This Is One Of The Best Things I've Ever Done
I Still Love My Minimal & Clumsy Drumming
I'm Not A Drummer, But....
I Eventually Learned How To Create & Program Drums
A Skill That Would Become Useless By The 21st Century 
When Digital Gave Us Loops
But I Was In No Way Ever Good At The Drumming Thing
But... Fun Fact;  If You Play This On 'Repeat'
(And I'm Not Saying You Should) But If You Did
You Might Notice It Starts A Half-Step Lower... 
Than It Ends... Which Means 
The Whole Song Speeds-Up 
Likely Happened During A Transfer
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Thanks To Lowell George - He'd Know What4

I'M GONNA GET YOU, SOMEHOW

Things Don’t Look Too Good Right Now
But i’m Gonna Get You, Somehow
I'm Gonna Take A Solemn Vow
And I'm Gonna Get You, Somehow
I'm Gonna Get You, Somehow
Oh – Woh - Oh – Oh 
Oh – Woh - Oh – Oh
You Don’t Even Know That I Exist Yet
You Don’t Even Know That I’m Alive

Things Don’t Look Too Good Right Now
But I’m Gonna Get You, Somehow
I'm Gonna Take A Solemn Vow
And I’m Gonna Get You, Somehow
I’m Gonna Get You, Somehow
Oh – Woh - Oh – oh  
Oh – Woh - Oh – oh
You Don’t Even Know That I Exist Yet
You Don’t Even Know That I’m Alive - Am I Ever

Things Don’t Look Too Good Right Now
But i’m Gonna Get You, Somehow
I'm Gonna Make A Solemn Vow
And I'm Gonna Get You, Somehow
I'm Gonna Get You, Somehow...

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I'M GONNA GET YOU, SOMEHOW

1967 - Yes, 58 YEARS AGO
My '66 Gibson Hummingbird Was Just One! 
I Was A 17 Y/O HS Senior 
And I'm Pretty Sure The Title Refers To
How Much 'Beatle' Was Contained Here 
When In Fact It Sounds Way More Like
Simon & Garfunkel 
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Truth Be Told 
It's Just Another Youthful, Humble Brag  
I Was Getting Some... 
Kissing Actual Girls
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The Fall Of '67 & Spring Of '68 
Were Truly Very Disconnected Times
Surreal Events Were Going On 
A 'Made-Up' War - Assasinations & 'What Have You'
All With Mom & Dad Grinning & Bearing It
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A DASH OF PEPPER

In My Eyes 
Or Rather On A Reef
My Thoughts 
Having Bored My Foot To Sleep
I Could Always Live In Rome
And Pinch The Ladies In The Ass 
And Then Take Them Home
In My Dreams 
Or Rather In My Soup
I Can See Someone 
Hanging From A Noose
I Could Always Be A Plumber
And Aid A Lady In Distress With My Plunger
With My Plunger In My Hand I Would Be Happy
That’s The Only Thing That Matters, Right?
That’s The Only Thing That Matters
That’s The Only Thing 
That’s The Only Thing That Matters…Right?

In Her Arms 
Or Rather Up A Tree
I Can See 
All I Ever Care To See
I Could Always See Brazil
And Be A Coffee Man
And Pick My Beans At Will
With My Pickin’ On My Beans I Will Be Happy
That’s The Only Thing That Matters, Right?
That’s The Only Thing That Matters
That’s The Only Thing 
That’s The Only Thing That Matters… Right?
In My Heart 
Or Rather On Her Lips
I Can Taste Something 
That I’ve Always Missed
I Could Always Be Her Love 
I Could Always Play An A

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A DASH OF PEPPER

I Started This On A Casio 
8-Note Keyboard, In 1978
And Finished It In 2022 
For No Other Reason Than Irony... 
It Began As A Sarcastic Song About A Friend  
Who'd Become Successful & A Bit Insufferable
Fast-Forward A Half-Century
I Stumbled Over This When This Same Fella & I Were 
Reconnecting Again, 50 Years Later 
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I Tried It Out On Guitar & Fell In Love With It
Performing It Was A Bit Of An Art Form 
Fingers Dancing Around The Partial Capo
To Do The Bass Stuff
So I Was TotallyLocked Into The Guitar Stuff 
But Not Yet Into The Vocal
And This Was Literally The First Sing Though 
And It's Boomy But... 
I Played Some Things On This
I Will Never Play Again 

GOOD OLD DAVE 

Good Old Dave
My Friend Dave 
We Used To Do An Awful Lot Of Things Together
Good Old Dave
We Used To Think We Would Be Friends Forever
Good Old Dave
My Friend Dave
I Wonder What He’s Doing Now
I Wonder What He’s Done
I Wonder Where He Goes 
When He Goes Out To Have Some Fun
Good Old Dave 
My Friend Dave
People Always Wondered If We Were Brothers   
Good Old Dave
A Few Of Them Always Thought We Were Lovers
Good Old Dave
My Friend Dave
Did I Lose Touch With Davey Or
Did He Lose Touch With Me?
Maybe We Just Need Eachother,
Momentarily?
Good Old Dave  
My Friend Dave  
Good Old Dave

GOOD OLD DAVE

2006

I'm Playing A Mele 6-String Ukulele  
Mele Was A Luthier On Maui
We Drove From 'Tourist Town' On Maui
Through A Dense Rain Forest To A Clearing 
Where The Sweetest Thatched Roof Shop
Sold These Gorgous Sounding Ukes 
I Like 'Jangly' & The 6-String Caught My Ear 
Took It Home & Wrote 'Pukalani' 
And Then Later... um, This One
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Really Mean Advice 

TWO MOONS

What’s The Sense Of Feeling Blue
Life’s A Bitch & So Are You
It May Be Time To Write Yourself That Letter

When You Lick The Envelope
You Can Cut Your Tongue Or Slit Your Throat
And Whose To Say That Things Will Get Much Better

Why The Sorrow - Why The Fuss
Do The Deed - But Don’t Call Us
We Got Two Moons - Not Just One
We Got Two Moons Tonight
We Got Two Moons - Not Just One
We Got Two Moons Tonight

Yeah You Think You’ve Been Double-Crossed
Don’t Get Even - Just Get Lost
It May Be Time To Do Yourself That Favor

When You Try To Fall Asleep
Count Your Friends & Not Your Sheep
It Might Be Time To Adjust Your Poor Behavior

So Why The Sorrow - Why The Fuss
Do The Deed - But Don’t Call Us
We Got Two Moons - Not Just One
We Got Two Moons Tonight
We Got Two Moons - Not Just One
We Got Two Moons Tonight

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TWO MOONS

2004  
Family Vacation To Maui
One Day My Wife & I Bought Ourselves 
A Mele 6-String Ukuele
(As Pictured Here)
Mele Was A Ukulele Luthier On Maui
We Drove From 'Tourist Town' 
Through A Dense Rain Forest To A Clearing 
Where The Sweetest Thatched Roof Shop
Sold These Gorgous Sounding Ukes 
I Like 'Jangly' & The 6-String Caught My Ear 
And I Literally Took It Back To Our Friend's Home 
And Bashed Out 'Pukalani' 
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Cheers To Our Fabulous Hosts 
Gail & Piet In Upcountry, Maui
And The Incredibly Swift 
Weather Changes In Kula
And The Half-Filled Film Cannister  
Of Marijuana Seeds 
Used For A 'Shaker' Percussion Sound
And Also This Early Mix ProvidesThe Sound Of 
One-Hand Clapping...
It's The Same "Take" I Used For 'Dreadful Sorrow'
But Its An Earlier Mix  
No Solo'd Vocals 
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Pukalani Was The Sight Of My Last Enjoyable Round Of Golf  
That's Now Close To 20 Years Ago 
I Played With A Friend Of Our Hosts 
I Was Good In My Teens
But I've Always Hated Golf... 
Even As A Teenager It Felt Like An Addiction
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Golf... Like Caviar, Oysters & Richard Goldman Songs
Is Not For Everyone


PUKALANI

Here Comes A Big Fat Cloud 
Climbing Over The Mountain & It's
White & Wispy & It’s 
Crawling Over The Ridge & It’s
Climbing Over The Mountain 
Faster Than I Can Climb Over The Mountain &
Sometimes Mother Nature’s 
Just A Son-Of-A-Bitch Here In

Pukalani - Uke-a-lani 
Ay-yay-e-yay-ay
Pukalani - Uke-a-lani 
Ay-yay-e-yay-ay
Pukalani - Uke-a-lani 
Ay-yay-e-yay-ay

The Wind’s Picking Up & 
The Air’s Cooling Down 
And I Can Feel The Freaking Moisture That's Just
Dripping In The Air & I Got
No Way Of Stopping That
Big Fat Cloud As It
Rolls Over The Mountain & 
Curls Up My Hair & I Go

Pukalani - Uke-a-lani 
Ay-yay-e-yay-ay
Pukalani - Uke-a-lani 
Ay-yay-e-yay-ay
Pukalani - Uke-a-lani 
Ay-yay-e-yay-ay

Well, The Whole Thing Makes Me Wonder What The Hell 
Happened To The Sun & 
Isn’t It Supposed To Burn Through That
Wispy Little Sucker And
Maybe That Ball Of Fire Just Had 
Somewhere Else To Be Or 
Maybe It Couldn't Give A Damn About The
Curlin' Of My Hair And I Go

Pukalani - Uke-a-lani  
Ay-yay-e-yay-ay
Pukalani - Uke-a-lani  
Ay-yay-e-yay-ay
Pukalani - Uke-a-lani  
Ay-yay-e-yay-ay...

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PUKALANI

1988

It Would Have Been Difficult To Get Naked 
In The Front-Room Closet Recording Studio 
Of Our One-Bedroom WeHo Apartment 
I Used 'Addicted To Love' Sound Samples 
Not Parts - Just The Sound Of...
I Stayed-Up All-Night Recording 
But Mostly Listening Back To 
My Tascam 4-Track Recording 
Thanks To My Wife, Christie Mellor
For The Tascam & 
Thanks To Peter Hasting's For His 'Old' Sampler & Samples
Thanks To Bowie / Lou Reed / Beach Boys / Left Banke 
And I Just Never 'Got' The Patrick Swayze Thing...
Nor The 80's Techno Thing...
Also: 
I've Often Imagined A Conga Line 
Snaking Through A Room Thing For This Track
But...
As You Could Imagine
The Older I Got The More 'Getting Naked' Seemed... 
Less Appealing?
Then Moving Swiftly To Completely Embarrassing
By The 'Getting Naked' Bit 
Because It's Totally Part Of The Track
It's Like You Can't Cut The 'Na Na Na' From 'Hey Jude'
But Now At 75 'Naked' Is Not What You're Hoping For
You're Hoping For A "Cover"!!!@
So Yes I'm Urging Youger  & More Attractrive Folks 
To 'Cover' This Track

GIRLS

Girls Can Make You Look Out Your Window
Girls Can Make You Hear The Angels Sing
Girls Can Still Look Good Inside A Pinto
They Get Away With The Strangest Things
Girls
Girls Are Hiding In The Closets
Girls Are Waiting In The Wings
Girls Are Turning Into Doctors
Girls'll Do The Strangest Things
C’mon & Get Naked – Naked With Me
C’mon & Get Naked – Naked With Me 
Girls
Girls Can Really Drive You Crazy
Girls Are Better Than Onion Rings
Girls Go For Patrick Swayze
Girls'll Dig The Strangest Things
C’mon & Get Naked – Naked With Me
C’mon & Get Naked – Naked With Me
Girls Like, Girl's Like The Strangest Things

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GIRLS, GIRLS

2017

So Yes - Those Pint-Sized Man-Eaters, Do Exist 
And Can Be Plentiful Say, In August, In North Michigan
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The Chair Pictured
Was Where I Was Seated When 
I First Heard Of Flesh Eating Flies
And Where My Butt Stayed Located 
For My Pretty Much The Entire Trip 
& Indeed Where This Song Was Conceived
While Staying With Friends
At Torch Lake, In 2017

Flesh Eating Flies

White Folks Are Pasty
But They’re Very Tasty
Or So Say 
Flesh Eating Flies From Michigan
If You’re Fat Or You’re Thin
They’ll Get Under Your Skin
Flesh Eating Flies Of Michigan

We Could Fill-Up A Thermos
With Your Epidermis
Flesh Eating Flies Of North Michigan
Whether Catholic Or Jew
We’ll Eat You’re Skin Too
Flesh Eating Flies From North Michigan, Girl

We Mean You No Harm
Just A Piece Of Your Arm
We’re Flesh Eating Flies From Michigan
We Don’t Make Much Noise
We Like Girls & Boys
Flesh Eating Flies Of Michigan

We Don’t Read Ann Landers
But We Love Michiganders
We’re Flesh Eating Flies Of Michigan
Now Our Story’s Been Written
By A Man Who Was Bitten
By Flesh Eating Flies Of Michigan - Ooh-Girl

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FLESH EATING FLIES

Recorded In 1975  
At Sound City Studios, Van Nuys, Ca
Engineered & Co-Produced By Frederick Ampel 
Using A Moog Synthesizer & Keyboard For The Bass
At That Time I was An "In-House" Project 
At Sound City
Recording Whenever Studio B... 
Wasn't Booked
Recording Was Concluded Abruptly
I Think I Broke-Up With Fred
And Joe Shopped Me To Robert Stigwood
Who Loved Sinatra's Car & Dancer
Robert Stigwood Was The Music Mogul
Turned Movie Producer (uh-oh)
The Guy Who Discovered The Bee Gees 
Producing The 'Sgt Pepper' Movie
I'd Never Met A Real Mogul Before
And He Was Very Complimentary
Not About So Much Dancer Or Sinatra's Car
But This Song... Joe... On His Own... Played Him 'Sleepyhead'
And Of Course He Said It Sounded Like Barry Gibb 
Stigwood Had Produced A Lot Of Barry's 70s Bee Gee Ballads 
And I Adored The Bee Gees - Always My Dirty Little Secret
Because 


This Is An Early-Mix With A 'Rough Vocal' 
That Would Last A Lifetime
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SLEEPYHEAD

Sleepyhead 
Won't You Get Out Of Bed
You Missed Another Morning 
And The Night’s Just Ahead

You Put On Your 'Face'
Brush Your Hair Into Place
It’s Hard To Believe 
That You Need That Much Time
Cause Your Face Is Like Silk
And Your Hair’s Woven-Gold
Your Eyes In The Morning 
Are A Sight To Behold

Sleepyhead  
Won't You Get Out Of Bed
You Missed Another Morning 
And The Night’s Just Ahead
Lonely Soul 
You Have Taken Control
And Given Me The Power 
That The Loneliness Stole

You Put On Your 'Face'
Brush Your Hair Into Place
It’s Hard To Believe 
That You Need That Much Time
I Watch You & Wonder
'Bout The Spell I Been Under
The Mirror Never Looked So Good 
In All Of It’s Life

Sleepyhead 
Won't You Get Out Of Bed
You Missed Another Morning 
And The Night’s Just Ahead
Lonely Soul 
You Have Taken Control
And Given Me The Power 
That The Loneliness Stole

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SLEEPYHEAD

There's No-Fi - Like Lo-Fi
Some 'Sound' Advice 
I've Been Writing & Recording Songs 
Since I Was 14 In 1964
When I Began 
I Couldn't Read Or Write Music
So In Order To Remember It 
I Had To Record It... 
In The 60's, It Was On A Reel-To-Reel 
By The Late '70s, I Realized 
I Had To Be My Own Favorite Artist  
And Keep Track Of The Songs I'd Written 
To Keep Me Company In My Old Age
So - This Is A Musical Diary Of My Life 
For The Last 60 Years
By Clicking "Playlists" 
You Can Follow A Progression
By The Decades

SLEEPYHEAD

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