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I wasn't too keen on this song when it first came out, right after Clay Aiken's rise to success through American Idol, but it kinda grew on me, and became apparent that it'd be a good fit for my voice. I recorded it only this one time. I found it in transferring files between hard drives and realized it had not been recorded with proper filters and had never been mastered. Here's the updated versi...

If there was ever a song of hope that encapsulated a generation, it's "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey. Not only did it capture the heart of their fans, but the entire 80's generation and for generations to come. That was "my" generation and the song has stayed with me, in some ways arresting that teenager forever in that great music. But it also has stayed with generations that followed for the...

LIVE performance! - of "Gypsy Days", with the magnificent Paul Allen playing piano. Now, there's a history there that I won't go all into here, but Paul & I worked together in the very late 80's for 2 years at a small bar in Oak Lawn (Dallas, TX) and he was the first pianist I ever worked up songs with. It was a wonderful period of life I built a lot of time out of. This recording is the first tim...

When I heard this the first time I wasn't too hyper over it and then I saw the video and loved it immediately. I started playing it when I DJ'd and then even later on thought it'd be a fun song to sing once I found a good track and started moving towards more upbeat things in shows. It was definitely a fun tune on crowded nights. I love the tune and this is of course just demo fun. Remixed/Remaste...

A little known Carpenters tune unless you're a fan, I recorded this a year ago, but as I keep learning my software better for home recording I wanted to tweak this a bit better as it's actually one of my favorite songs written by Randy Ederman. No one will ever match Karen's vocal, and it's a short song. I took out the harmonica solo at the end because the track that I had did not do it justice wi...

The 50's standard, this time with a country twist, "Since I Don't Have You".

I fell in love with this song initially because it was played over the sneak preview of the upcoming "Star Trek: Enterprise" TV show that was coming in 2002 on the Paramount Network (UPN?) and then of course it was released as a single. I recorded it to a solid track much later, in 2008 during a healing period from illness and I just love the song. Tinkering with some software upgrades, the vocal...

For all of us, right now. God loves a lullaby In a mother's tears in the dead of night Better than a Hallelujah sometimes God loves the drunkard's cry The soldier's plea not to let him die Better than a Hallelujah sometimes We pour out our miseries God just hears a melody Beautiful, the mess we are The honest cries of breaking hearts Are better than a Hallelujah The woman holding on for life The d...

This is probably one of the strangest but most magnificent pieces of music I've ever tackled; and one of my all time favorite songs. Written by Jon Anderson (from Yes) and Vangelis, it was later covered by Donna Summer in a version produced by Quincy Jones. While it was somewhat close to the original (and is the version represented here) it is just an odd beautiful quirky song with amazing lyric c...

One of the best examples of positive energy encapsulated in song & lyric, this is Savage Garden's amazing "Affirmation".

David Pack, the leader of the group Ambrosia, wrote and first released this song in the 80's. It had the definite sound of Ambrosia, but he released it as a solo effort on his first solo album. Later on, it was slightly retooled and released on Ambrosia's Anthology album as an Ambrosia song with Michael McDonald and James Ingram featured heavily on backing vocals. It's a great song for my style &...

**Disclaimer** - This is a demo, not a finalized recording, and a one-take lead vocal first attempt. It is far from a perfected recording. It is emotionally a hard song to sing now, but I do intend on either re-recording or overdubbing some areas.*** One of my lifelong (since the age of 16) friends, Scott Kox, passed away this last year, and I'll never forget his presence in my life, and all he di...

Written in the mid 1990's, this was re-recorded from the ground up in 2007 and I ran across it partially with the vocals separate but not the newer instruments separated. It is the 2nd instrument set, but one stereo track on them. I will ultimately redo this again because I do love the tune. One of my mom's favorites of my originals, and a nice little Love Song... ;-)

Who couldn't love this song from Sister Act II? I remember watching the movie the first time and being blown away by the arrangement of this gospel tune and how soulful the beginning was, never thinking I'd had a chance to sing the amazing song myself. Then, I stumbled upon a track... Well, the dance part of the track left about a zillion things to be desired, but that tender opening was wonderful...

[live karaoke performance 1995] I used to get compared to George Michael a lot, and I did a lot of his tunes in the 80's & 90's, and this one was one of my favorites, but I didn't start doing it until the 90's because the tracks that were out there just plain sucked. This one was a better one because it reflected the remixed version. I only had recorded it once, and I was so surprised that it was...

This great song was one of Queen's best, and yes, I knew it waaaaay before it was featured in "Shawn Of The Dead". I was actually at Summer Camp (at Camp Langston in Mt Pleasant, TX!) when I heard Queen's "Jazz" album, I think summer of 1979, and this song was on it. I thought it was awesome. Many years later, after Karaoke had started, Queen actually released a CD of their original tracks for kar...

Another - and the only other - duet with one of the most beautiful voices the world had heard in the early 80's...and this one song held so much for me. The post can't explain everything, but this version of the song was the first version I'd heard, although several people went on to record it; Gary Morris had a huge country hit with it, and then a few years later, of course Bette Midler used it i...

This is such a great group number but I was lucky to stumble across a backing that had minimal background vocals, allowing me to add in to layer as I wanted. It turned out nice, and I found this in the "lost files"; full folder so I decided to remix and remaster for the first time.

Another on this series of found "lost recordings" I have special reason for sharing this beautiful Michael Jackson tribute to anyone who has lost someone they love.... as in the years prior to recording this, our original karaoke family lost our friend Gary Berez to a car accident... and we were all very lost without that wonderful soul. I ran across this recording after the sudden passing of a fr...

One of my all time favorite tunes, Kenny Loggins' style had just started to undergo slight changes and indicators of where his musical path was heading which was actually a continuation of themes he'd long had but had previously been glossied up in pop packages. The albums that followed where this one came from moved toward a very good mix of Jazz & R&B infused pop that were quite sublime (check o...

I worked a long time on remixing this, and short of re-recording the lead vocal, this is just a wonderful capture of what I think is one of the greatest songs ever written. A young man, a guy named Jack, who was working at Dave & Busters when we first started gigging there in 1990 I think approached me one day and asked me if I'd learn this song, and gave me a cassette tape with the original on on...

National Anthem Performance at TXRD March 26, 2016

This is the very first song I ever sang in front of a crowd. I believe I was 21 or 22 in this recording. It's somewhat of a funny, but touching story, but has 2 parts... and two different crowds. The first time I ventured out to try to sing in front of a crowd was at The Old Plantation on Cedar Springs in Oak Lawn area of Dallas. I had been going to the bars a long time by that point, and knew a l...

This was just always such a great tune to relax to - Christopher Cross's "Sailing". We had a great track to it in the early days of our group and this was another stumbled upon recording I had that I remastered as well as I could. Hope I did it justice.

This is the "Amazed" track I referred to yesterday when posting "I'm Already There"; this was my first exposure to Lonestar, and I've performed this song many years. This version was recorded about 10 years ago or so. Found the folder in the "lost drive" and remixed and remastered it here. March 2016. May make some adjustments here & there along the way but I do love this song. There's another arr...