If I had a Dime The title of this song was first uttered in disdain by Franklin Roosevelt. It was completed with “I’ve been asked what was it like to grow up in the shadow of cousin Teddy?” Later, the Republican Party forced through a measure that removed FDR’s image from the now-out-of-circulation New Deal … Read More
A friend was visiting the other day and we were inventorying the kitchen. Not much to work with. And then my friend spied a familiar jar and said, “There’s always granola”. And there is. And now there is a song. Here are the lyrics. Song will come later. When you’re home alone oh so blue … Read More
A few years ago someone took my song “In the Rain” and made this surprisingly effective animation to accompany it. This song is from my record “Radio Boy”. To find info on my upcoming record to go my Kickstarter site. Thanks. Dennis
While my kickstarter runs, I will be posting new and old material. I wrote this song, One World Many Stories, several years ago and recorded it with Bideew Bou Bess. It’s a group of three brothers from Senegal. Also playing are Tony Vacca and Charlie Braun. Please check out my Kickstarter project. Thanks, Dennis One World Many … Read More
In Iowa, some decades ago I arrived, and dismayed, said “Say it ain’t so!” The tenth to be born to a family struggling Amidst endless corn…it was patently troubling Perhaps the stork took a wrong turn It was for New York that I yearned The upper East Side to be exact I could easily abide … Read More
George Martin 1926-2016 Sir Saint Paul recalled, “He was like a second father.” A wonder to all it worked at all, it is as if God were Looking down on London and said “I need a gift for me.” Where else could this come from, this synchronicity? His background was in classical, he was tactful … Read More
Summertime George and Ira, arias and blues have to admire those New York Jews “I loves you, Porgy. Don’t leave me here.” They would of course be familiar with fear and caustic squalor and bitter fruit Wagner trumps Mahler with sharp-edged boots They sat at the piano on the Upper West Side mapping a plan … Read More
When Fred Astaire died on June 22, 1987, Ginger Rogers was living alone on her Rogue River ranch in Oregon. Their last movie was almost forty years before (“The Barkleys of Broadway“) and while Fred and Ginger had parted amicably and remained friends, their iconic onscreen romance of the 1930’s was in the distant past. … Read More