DEAR MR. MEMORY

from Tune Rider by Gordon Michaels

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…one of my favorites…written on piano in Dagsboro late one night mid 70’s…feeling lonely imagined someone trying to get in touch with friends via telephone (pre-Facebook...pre texting days)…but everyone is either busy with kids, no longer at that number, busy with wife…or dead!!..eventually verges on tragi-comedy with exaggerated emotions… Who is Mr. Memory?—maybe all the accumulated schemata and memories of important relationships—mainly friends that we carry around…got a chance to stretch out vocally with harmonies, wailing lead vocal, Louis Armstrong scatting……Paul Soroka shows his chops on sax…Ron blisters a guitar solo…I chose this in order to show my existential blues side

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DEAR MR. MEMORY
nnnnnnn….nothing was on the tube that night
Just the re-run slime
And every book that was siting on the shelf
Had been read too many times
Oh I thought it would be so nice
just to hear a friendly sound
And with a telephone book and a heart full of hope
This lonely singer called every cob-webbed friend around
Some to my surprise had been cut down on the road
Some were busy with the kids
Some had disappeared to parts unknown
Some no longer lived where they once did
Dear Mr. Memory…this is getting scary
Everyone I used to know is either dead or married
[Chorus]

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from Tune Rider, released October 8, 2020
Gordon Michaels: vocals, piano, Louis Armstrong voice, bass
Ron Turner: guitar
Mike Kanter: drums
Paul Soroka: sax

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Gordon Michaels Baltimore, Maryland

Gordon Michaels is a singer songwriter living in Parkville, Maryland with his wife Mary Ann and his dog, Mazie. Jack of Hearts and Tune Rider are Gordon's first album releases since his debut Stargazer on A&M Horizon Records in 1979. Gordon splits his time between writing, recording and teaching at Towson University. ... more

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