Originally I recorded this over 30 years ago to try to cheer up a depressed friend, now deceased. The phrase "a lot" has considerably different meaning to me now.

Got A Lot Of Living To Do

Here's one from possibly the best band I was ever with, Rich Kids, written and recorded in 1976.  Sorry about the hiss; its from a second generation tape.  I used to spend a lot of my rare free time, social pariah that I was, sitting in my dad's study at home trying to get ideas for songs.  I would sit facing a wall of bookshelves which led to me writing this song that takes its title from a book about Larry Csonka and Jim Kick.  The song, however, has nothing to do with pro football.  Rich Kids had this time were Dean Childress on guitar and vocals, Dave Washburn on bass and vocals, Jeff Holt on drums and vocals, and me on lead vocals and keys.  (c. 1976)

Always on the Run Rich Kids

Like so many other socially awkward wall flowers, I used to spend much of my free time writing and recording songs of widely varying merit.  I don't know why I squandered time with half-baked stylistic "homages" like this rather than trying to craft quality songs.  It maybe I thought that if I wrote enough songs about the sun and surf lifestyle that my dream of being a Beach Boy would inevitably just come to be.

This sexist little number dates itself with a reference to Jacqueline Bessett's wet tshirt, which is a memorable image from the film The Deep.  

The other musicians on this are Dean Childress (guitar, back-up vocal), Dave Washburn (bass, b.u. vocal), and either Jerry Hawkins or Basil Parker on drums.  c. 1976

Get Wet

I've racked my brain but I can not remember any reason for writing this other than liking the name.  Part of the melody may be inspired by Jim Gordon's piano coda to Layla.  This one is all me on the instruments and vocals, with drum programming and exceptional engineering by Dean Childress.  c.1991

James A. Gardner