   Howdy friends and hopefully everybody is looking forwards to a very Happy Thanksgiving with family and friends this year! We need a little cheering up! This is a song I wrote in 2021 during the pandemic and it's partially about my favorite film of all time "The Wizard Of Oz" with Judy Garland. I've loved this film since I was a kid and now I own like 20 copies of it in all formats and watch it once a year religiously! The song is mostly about finding our inner child and returning to that time when everything seemed to be an adventure and there was magic in the air and music all around! It's like a dream song and as everyone knows there are good things and bad things in dreams, there are friends and there are witches sometimes, as in life, but the journey is always well-worth it for me! 
      This was also one of the first music-videos I ever made with the help of my wonderful wife and it was really too choppy and the clips I used were really blurry and I used way too many gif's and the sound was muddy. At the time we thought it was great but when I rewatched it, I knew I needed to redo it! So earlier this year I decided to do a remix of the song and the video. I added several more clips but couldn't really find any nice clear ones from "The Wizard Of Oz" because it's copyrighted I guess, so I had to use fuzzy ones but you guys get the picture! 

VIDEO - https://youtu.be/LkCsp-0wLUA

     The song is one of my best with some of my best lyrics, I think. It's all about Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) and her finding her inner child and wanting to go on a journey over the rainbow but when she gets there all she wants to do is go back home! Isn't that what we all want to do? We want to go back home but sadly we cannot. 
     I worked very hard on the song and Charlie really sang it well! My wife helped out on the backing vocals too. I hope the Remix turned out a little better than before. The video was a headache to put together because of all the "Wizard Of Oz" clips I inserted but I hope I did a decent job of it, it looks much better now than the origianl video I had done!
     So Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and let's all remember what it was like being a child, all the wonder and excitement that life seemed to offer us back then, for me it was a magical time and watching "The Wizard Of Oz" every Thanksgiving was part of that magic! I'll always remember the classic lines in the film like "Your heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by other!" That's they key to life you know, oh and one more very important thing! "There's No Place like home"! (Ain't that the truth!) Happy Holidays!🙏😎✌🏼

“SOMEWHERE IN BLUE"

WHERE ARE YOU GOING?  
IS THAT STILL YOU UNDERNEATH?   
ARE YOU STILL GROWING?
CAN IT BE TRUE? IS THAT STILL YOU?  
     
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?  
WHAT GOALS HAVE YOU ACHIEVED?                 
ARE YOU IMPROVING?   
CAN IT BE TRUE?     
THEY SAY WHAT'S OLD RETURNS BRAND NEW,  
THE LITTLE GIRL THAT I ONCE KNEW,    
SHE STILL IN THERE SOMEWHERE IN BLUE,

ARE YOU ENLIGHTENED?  
HAVE YOU EXPANDED YOUR MIND?   
IS LIFE EXCITING?    
CAN IT BE TRUE?  IS THAT STILL YOU? 
     
ARE YOU EVOLVING?  
HAVE YOU LEFT CHILDHOOD BEHIND?   
WAS IT WORTH SOLVING?   
CAN IT BE TRUE?  
THEY SAY OLD WOUNDS LEAVE SCAR TISSUE,  
THE LITTLE GIRL THAT I ONCE KNEW,  
IS SHE STILL IN THERE SOMEWHERE IN BLUE?

GROWING UP IS HARD,        
HANG-UPS CAN SOMETIMES SPOIL THE VIEW,         
THE HOOPS YOU'RE JUMPING THROUGH,          
CAN GET THE BEST OF YOU,         
SO FIND THAT LITTLE GIRL HIDING IN THERE,         
SOMEWHERE IN BLUE,
     
OOH THE LITTLE GIRL THAT I ONCE KNEW,
SHE STILL IN THERE SOMEWHERE IN BLUE, 
THE LITTLE GIRL THAT I ONCE KNEW.
      
BY JIM VALDES
 © 2021

"SOMEWHERE IN BLUE" (Video - https://youtu.be/LkCsp-0wLUA)

**I NEVER USE A.I. IN ANY OF MY SONGS OR VIDEOS!** Hi everybody, my name is Jim and I’m a songwriter, I've written over 300 songs, I play guitar, bass, piano, and am an okay lyricist.  I play all types of music and have my own recording studio.  I use no A.I. or DAW or any computers to make my songs or my videos, all the instruments are played by me live on a multitrack studio recorder and Charlie, my vocalist, sings most of my songs and also plays the Harmonica on several tracks. I use video clips from Motion Array or Pexals or Pixabay for my videos. I'm not a pro or a great musician but I do what I can with the tools that I have! I belong to the "Keep Humans In Music Movement" (KHMM)! We're NOT perfect but we're REAL! Thanks everyone for listening and the world needs more music now, real music made by HUMANS not MACHINES! So let's all sing a song with our own voices, please! I do not consent to any of my songs or videos being used or sampled or lifted in any way or fashion. Take care!👍😎✌🏼.

"SOMEWHERE IN BLUE" (Video - https://youtu.be/LkCsp-0wLUA)

MIAMI JEFF