THE GOLDEN THUMB

God knows why Vimeo isn't putting any start image in this video.  Here's one to get you in the mood, by my good friend John Fountain, who did some of the best work on ChalkZone and provided one our our most memorable voices, "Howdy Rudy."  This song baffled a lot of my colleagues at ChalkZone.  Why the Golden Thumb?  Why not the Golden Sun?  Isn't that the obvious choice?Uh...yeah.  That's why I didn't want to do it.  And anyhow, isn't waiting till the Golden Thumb comes up again a little more like what we all do in real life?  It will come up again...won't it? WON'T IT????

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I'm Gonna Marry Diana

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This is a tune I wrote for the marriage of my friend Doug Day and his lovely bride Diana.  It's been one of my major crowd pleasers ever since and I'm proud of it as a catchy tune and also a clever lyric.  I think it emulates some of the word play of the great Roger Miller--a crafty and inspired hipster singer-songwriter who made very smart music, nestled safely into the country genre. Lines like Trying to mock the way they talk, fun but all in vain/Gapin' at the dapper men in derby hats and canes rival Sondheim's Phone'll jingle door'll knock from West Side Story.  And I like to think that my I went and bought a ring/Now my heart is fluttering is in that same tradition.  In the future I'll do a SongTalk piece on Roger Miller and make the case that he is one of our greatest singer songwriters.  For now I just urge you to check him out on your own. 

By the way, that's the great Suzy Williams singing with me in the background.

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Over You

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This here's a country toe tapper in the grand ol' tradition.

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