Original
Songs
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You can
preview lots of already-recorded songs, mostly maritime, on the music
page, but here is an album full of
completely different, unreleased .mp3s for fun, in their
entirety...CLICK ON THE TITLES to listen, download...
Home Is Where The Heart Is
This song became the title (and soundtrack) for Jessica
Lange's
first
starring short film Home Is Where
The
Heart Is, an underground
classic, featuring herself and
male lead (and first husband) Paco Grande well before she made her
Hollywood debut in a remake of King
Kong. It was directed by Danny Seymour, who later
disappeared on his sailboat in the
Caribbean, probably hijacked and murdered by pirates. You can't make
this stuff up - his boat surfaced in Guadaloupe in possession of a
stranger who said he sold it to him, without papers. Danny has never
been
heard from since...
This recording is the original copyright demo for
MCA, used for the soundtrack, and is all that remains of the crew,
except for Jessica, of
course...
The Next Time Round
My theme song for many years, also recorded with The Apostolic Family
at the same session as "Home Is Where Heart Is."
And
here's the rest...some
higher fi than others, all otherwise
unrecorded except for publishing purposes. Half are salvaged from old
cassett tapes -- will be redoing them as more listenable new projects,
see column right, but for the moment, sometimes the
worse the sound, the better the song...
Cold Day --
It's a cold day
indeed when the earth rotates backwards...
The
Dolphins --
My son Neal
loves these folks so much
he once renamed
himself after them...
Another
Lifetime
-- That's what it seems like, again...
Almost
Done --
Still looking for
that bridge over troubled waters...
Love
I Shared --
Wolfgang might
have liked the mandolins, maybe not the
lyrics...with the Apo Family, arr. by David Ames...
The
Little Things --
They remind
me of you, and maybe Buddy Holly...
This Life Belongs To Me --
So
catch me the next time round...
Always
Companion --
Always, in
spite of my sins...
Maggie
Dear --
R.I.P. Maggie
Stewart, you were the best...
On My Way --
Folkie philosophy,
where's PP&M?...
Until Matthew Comes Again --
Who's Matthew, anyway? The Gospel writer,
my old roommate, something more...
From
The Beginning --
When life
and love gets messed up the same way at every level, every time, who
you gonna call?...along with a lot of mystic Masonic symbols, it's on
the dollar bill...
All songs © copyright John Townley
1971-2011, various publishers including MCA, EMI, Kama-Rippa, Epiphany,
others...
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Books
Articles
Music
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Sailor!
Songs From A 19th Century Seaman's Chest
The
Family of Apostolic
The Top
Hits of 1776
New Projects:
Thanks
to a modest
little Fostex 8-track and the open-source Audacity mixing suite,
multiple demos of original songs and lesser-known traditional tunes are
in the works. The aim is to make available all copyrighted JT
original songs in
rough but listenable form --
dozens for the very first time -- along with some pet arrangements of
traditional
pieces as well. They will be posted as completed.
So
far:
Exiles (JT)--
An Irish-style
original for a Polish flower...the rose and the magnolia...
There's
Only You (JT)-- Sage advice
before you step in any deeper...
A Tree
Song (Kipling/Carey) --
1906
words by Rudyard Kipling from Puck
of Pook's Hill set to the 17th-century tune of "Salley In Our
Alley" by Henry Carey somehow sound so 1970s...
A Carol
(Kipling/Trad.) -- From Rewards and Fairies, tune adapted from "Adieu, Sweet Lovely
Nancy"...
A Dream
(Errera/JT) -- 92-year-old Mary Errera wrote her first lyric, needed a
tune...recorded at Capture Sound...
The Anchor's Aweigh (JT) -- A
song about the magnetic poles, literally and figuratively...
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