Music Clips and Song List Special Thanks Production

Song List 1. Day In-Day Out SOUND CLIP (Quick Time, 372k) (Johnny Mercer/Rube Bloom) Johnny Mercer is one of my favorite lyricists. I like the rural flavor of his words and his wit. I first heard "the same old hoodoo" sung by Frank Sinatra on his swinging Come Dance With Me! album. This opening tune is dedicated to the enduring Sinatra legacy and the fans he made of The Great American Songbook. 2.The Way You Look Tonight SOUND CLIP (Quick Time, 776k) (Dorothy Fields/Jerome Kern) They Can't Take That Away From Me (Ira Gershwin/George Gershwin) Often I'm inspired to arrange songs in my head while I'm waiting for a train or walking down the sidewalk. The pairing of these two classic songs came to me on one atypically quiet morning when the city seemed to heave a collective sigh and the autumn leaves did their swirly dance around me, like Astaire and Rogers in "Swing Time" and "Shall We Dance" - the films these tunes come from. 3. Warm All Over (Frank Loesser) "I touch your hand and I'm home again..." This great ballad from "The Most Happy Fella" is my message to Michael (143). 4. The House is Haunted (Billy Rose/Basil Adlam) Kay Starr sang this rowdy blues on one of my Dad's albums. Growing up in Muncie, Indiana I heard a lot of Kay and Tony Bennett and I was crazy about their gutsy big-spirited singing. A few years ago I had the opportunity to study with Kay Starr. She was as wonderful a teacher as she is a singer! 5. In a Mellow Tone (Duke Ellington and Milt gabler) 1999 will be the 100th anniversary of Duke's birth and I'm overjoyed that this means we will be hearing (and singing) so much of his great music all year long. I dedicate this song to my great friends Marge Cacciola and Elaine Regis, on whose new boat, The Mellow Tone, we'll be sailing and bopping to Ellington songs come Spring. Elaine, do nothing till you hear from me! 6. Suddenly Last Summer (Martha Davis) I may have grown up hearing the classic Porter, Gershwin and Arlen tunes sung by Kay Starr, Tony Bennett and Billie Holiday, but as a teenager I favored the New Wave bands of the 1980's: Psychedelic Furs, the B-52-s, Pretenders! This simple and evocative gem by The Motels is for Lois, who saw me through that crazy, lunatic decade and encouraged me to climb to higher ground. 7. Come Rain or Come Shine (Johnny Mercer/Harold Arlen) It's gotta be a tough love that endures day in and day out, through stormy weather. Mercer and Arlen and the rest understood that universal themes will stand the test of time. That's why these songs will speak to us forever. They are a comfort when there is so much bad weather out there. 8. Empty Garden SOUND CLIP (Quick Time, 569k) (Elton John and Bernie Taupin) I lost my best friend Joe Cloyd to AIDS in 1988. It took me five years before I could walk past the Boston apartment we had shared and the garden that Joe worked on so tirelessly to make grow. Now, it was overgrown with someone else's weeds. I am part of a generation who has lost its best and brightest to an imperceptible virus. We work tirelessly to make justice and understanding and hope grow for the next generation. Standing there that day, I just recalled the fun and the laughs. Its a great gift, remembrance. 9. 'Deed I Do (Walter Hirsch and Fred Rose) Blossom Dearie introduced me to this bouncy swing tune from the 1920's, here with a great Kenny Wentzel turn on the flute! 10. You Make Me Feel So Young SOUND CLIP (Quick Time, 525k) (Mack Gordon/Josef Myrow) Another Sinatra associated gem, I first heard this song sung by "Lets Get Lost" trumpeter Chet Baker. Picking up lots of forget-me-nots? Absolutely! 11. It's the Talk of the Town (Marty Symes and Al J. Neiburg/Jerry Livingston) Lonely Town (Betty Comden & Adolph Green/Leonard Bernstein) Two more from the Sinatra canon. The first song is a preview from the Jerry Livingston tribute album I hope to record someday. He wrote great songs during the Swing Era and for Disney films. "Lonely Town" is from "On the Town," here with help from a Miles-like muted trumpet by Kenny Wentzel. 12. I'm Glad There is You (Paul Madeira and Jimmy Dorsey) This is for my beloved Ceil who loves this song and loves the flute! I am blessed by the many people in my life who share my passion for great songs and support this musical adventure of mine including Ceil and Herb Wheeler, Mildred Goldston, Sheila Duncan, Mark Craig, Doug Swiszcz, Maeve Spain and Darrell Leighton among many many others. I'm glad there are all of you. 13. The Song is You (Oscar Hammerstein II/Jerome Kern) This Sinatra classic is also backed by the most terrific musicians I've ever worked with. Thank you guys! 14. Night Ride Home (Joni Mitchell) A song of impressionistic memories. The end of a brilliantly sunny day at the beach. Fried clams and transistor radios. Night air and crickets. Alone but not lonely. A good night's sleep. Home again (143). 15. Flight SOUND CLIP (Quick Time, 929k) (Craig Carnelia) A song about the human spirit's need to cut loose from it's moorings. A modern masterpiece about the whirling and sometimes dizzying forces of nature and a soaring, exhilarating journey! Click here for purchase information