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For many years I was a staff songwriter with the music publishers Chappell Music, Warner-Chappell Music and EMI Music. Below are some songs I wrote for different recording artists during that time.
I also record my own songs. My 2nd solo album, Watercolor Day (2010) has just been released. It's my most ambitious album with 18 songs in 43 minutes. Check it out if old school, 2 1/2 minute pop songs is your thing (as it is mine!).
The Red Button is my "band" with fellow singer-songwriter, Mike Ruekberg. We do very retro-y 60s - type songs. Real jangly stuff. Our first album was called She's About to Cross My Mind (2007). It won a number of "Year End" polls as Best Pop record. Our second Red Button record, As Far As Yesterday Goes, was released in June, 2011.
In the Unrecorded section, are some of my favorite of my own songs that I wrote for other artists when I was a staff songwriter, but never got recorded (yet!). They are my beloved orphans.
In the Discoveries section are some songs, written and recorded by my singer-songwriter friends over the years, that I just think are so great! |
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Discography
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Tear
It Up
Michael McDonald
I grew up listening to Michael McDonald
when he was the soulful lead singer of The Doobie Brothers
–- one of the great voices in rock history. I
wrote this song for him with Gardner Cole. It was always
fun to write songs for artists that you really liked
growing up.
#27 Billboard Adult Contemporary Charts (1990)
Music Video
Original Demo
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After You
Eric Carmen
I wrote this ballad with Eric in the
early 80s.
See
Eric's comment on After You in his biography Marathon
Man. When I was a music publisher, straight out of college,
I called Eric and told him what a major fan of his music
I was. He invited me to Cleveland where he lived and
became an early mentor in my songwriting career. Great
guy. This photo of Eric, I took at his apartment in
Cleveland, in 1983.I wrote this ballad with Eric in
the early 80s.
Hear the song
The High Cost of Loving
Eric Carmen
Another song I wrote with Eric. I
sent him the lyrics and he wrote the music. Kind of
a "country" type song.
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We Got a Good Thing
Smokey Robinson
I love Smokey
Robinson, so when he recorded this early song of mine
(1986), I was particularly thrilled. I met Smokey around
the time he recorded this song and someone took a picture
–not my best hair-period, but hey, it's with Smokey
Robinson!
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A
Christmas Lullaby
Faith Evans
I wrote this for Jermaine Dupri's
12 Soulful Nights of Christmas album in 1999.
I love Faith's rendition of it. I played the piano,
arranged strings on the track, and co-produced it with
Jermaine. Funny story: Alicia Keys was in the studio
at the same time I was writing and recording this song.
This is before she was ALICIA KEYS. I remember her loving
it and saying someday she might record it.
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By
Heart
Brenda K. Starr
I wrote this in '89 or '90. I thought
it was a total smash. I still do. But with no support
from Epic at the time, it wasn't going anywhere. I love
Ric Wake's production: simple song, simple melody, simple
sentiment.
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Hard On Me
Bonfire
I always liked this headbanger I wrote
with Jack Ponti for the German heavy metal band, Bonfire.
I think it came out in 1989.
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That's
What We'll Do
The Poppies
The Poppies were a cool New York band,
circa 1992. The girl singer was the Goddaughter of Penthouse
Magazine founder, Bob Guccione. Roger Greenawalt and
I wrote this song. It was The Poppies first single on
Warner Bros. Records and made some noise in England.
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