I have a bunch of melodies and chord changes swimming around in iTunes. Every once in a while, I will have my library playing on shuffle and one of my demos will come up. I had unchecked all Buff Tom and my solo tracks from the library so they would not pop up when …
This is a thinly fictionalized true story from the annals of Huntington bully lore. Billy Beard on drums. Scott Janovitz tracked him. ***** As always: More about the overall project here: About: Long Island of the Mind Album section. You can download the file for this song here. Right click/Apple click, “save as.” Previous songs collected here. Please pass …
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For a couple of years, circa 1958/’59, my father was second tenor in a vocal quartet called the Fabulairs. They sang a version of Doo Wop, but I think they aspired to sound more like the Platters and the Flamingos than Danny and the Juniors. My mother and father went to go see the show Jersey …
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The balls they had to call this place “Walt Whitman Mall.” Seriously, could you think of anything more cynical than naming a mall after Walt Whitman? This was “our” mall. Walt was born and grew up in Huntington. There is also, more appropriately, a high school named after him as well. I …
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I do not have much to add about this song so I stitched some photos and video clips, mostly from Huntington, almost all from Long Island, and all from my own photos. This project has not been nostalgic enough for you, you say? Needs to be more sentimental? Well, here you go! You can listen …
(Not sure if the music player is not working on this one. It was not for me when I posted and I can’t figure out why. You can listen/download here). Yesterday we recorded the fantastic guy and drummer, Billy Beard on four of my new songs (he is the second Billy in the Billy, Billy, …
New Song: Mae and Maggie I & II (Click Title to Read Post) Read More »
There is a part of my hometown called Huntington Station, or just “the Station,” as in, “Huntington Elementary is in the Station, across from the Projects.” That’s where I went to school after they closed down Village Green Elementary School. Later, we, and all the graduating fifth graders from a bunch of elementary schools — …
This song is a wordy bugger, so I have little more to add about it here in this space. The subject matter of this one is not one looking far back, as with the last song, Heckscher Park. It is more from the point of view of the present. Musically, though, it reminds me a little of New …
I hit my first and last home run on opening day of my final season of my little league career, with one month left in my 13th year. I was stretching the boundaries of eligibility. I was in junior high already. Some of my friends were playing ball for the school. I was not …
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