I was born at a very early age.
sounds, songs and storytellers
Kerouac
Dylan
Bukowski
Rod Serling
Don Van Vliet
Cantinflas
James Brown
Harry Belafonte
Ma Rainey
Big Mama Thornton
Howlin’ Wolf
Lead Belly
Lord Buckley
Mabel Mercer
Lee Marvin
Thelonius Monk
John Ford
Fellini
Weegee
Jagger
Richards
Willie Dixon
John McCormick
Johnny Cash
Hank Williams
Frank Sinatra
Louis Armstrong
Robert Johnson
Hoagy Carmichael
Enrico Caruso
An asymmetrical airline carousel created a high pitched haunted voice brought on by the friction of rubbing and it sounded like a big wet finger circling the rim of a gigantic wine glass.
Street corner evangelists
Pile drivers in Manhattan
My wife’s singing voice
Horses coming/trains coming
Children when school’s out
Hungry crows
An orchestra tuning up
Saloon pianos in old westerns
Rollercoasters
Headlights hit by a shotgun
Ice melting
Printing presses
Ball games on a transistor radios
Piano lessons coming from an apartment window
Old cash registers/Ca Ching
Muscle cars
Tap dancers
Soccer crowds in Argentina
Beatboxing
Fog horns
A busy restaurant kitchen
Newsrooms in old movies
Elephants stampeding
Bacon frying
Marching bands
Clarinet lessons
Victrolas
A fight bell
Chinese arguments
Pinball machines
Children’s orchestras
Trolley bell
Firecrackers
A Zippo lighter
Calliopes
Bass steel drums
Tractors
Stroh Violin
Muted trumpet
Tobacco Auctioneers
Musical Saw
Theremin
Pigeons
Seagulls
Owls
Mockingbirds
Doves
Gershwin’s second prelude
Pathatique Sonata
El Paso
You’ve Really Got Me
Soldier Boy
Lean Back
Night Train
Come In My Kitchen
Sad Eyed Lady
Rite of Spring
Ode to Billy Joe
Louie Louie
Just a Fool
Prisoner of Love
Wang Dang Doodle (all night long)
Ringo
Ball and Chain
Deportee
Strange Fruit
Sophisticated Lady
Georgia On My Mind
Can’t Stop Loving You
Just Like A Woman
So Lonesome I Could Cry
Who’ll Stop The Rain?
Moon River
Autumn Leaves
Danny Boy
Dirty Ol’ Town
Waltzing Matilda
Train Keeps a Rollin
Boris the Spider
You’ve Really Got a Hold On Me
Red Right Hand
All Shook Up
Cause of It All
Shenandoah
China PigSummertime
Without a Song
Auld Lang Syne
This is a Man’s World
Crawlin’ King Snake
Nessun Dorma
Bring it on Home to Me
Hound Dog
Hello Walls
You Win Again
Sunday Morn’ Coming Down
Almost Blue
Pump It Up
Greensleeves
Just Wanna See His Face
Restless Farewell
Fairytale of NY
Bring Me A Little Water Sylvie
Raglan Road
96 Tears
In Dreams
Substitute
Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues
The theme from Rawhide
Same Thing
Walk Away Rene
For What it’s Worth
theme from Once Upon A Time In America
Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing
Oh Holy Night
Mass in E Minor
Harlem Shuffle
Trouble Man
Wade in The Water
Empty Bed Blues
Hava Nagila