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Marjorie

from Jack Of Hearts by Gordon Michaels

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…this song has a very interesting history… original melody written mentally on plane flying back from Hollywood visit to A&M Horizon offices April ’79 thinking about a woman who reclined on a chaise lounge every afternoon by herself wearing huge dark sunglasses by the pool at the Chateau Marmont where I stayed…I created a narrative for her that went “She’s haunted/obsessed by a something bad that happened many Autumns ago…depressed/lonely/incommunicado…she hums an old song…the narrator finds her melancholy aura irresistible but realizes nothing will ever come from the relationship until she gets over and gets off of whatever it is that eats at her…it’s always overcast and raining in her soul…lI always liked the melody and during my so-called “Christian Period” I changed the lyrics to “Calvary”-- a topic to reflect the heavy/draining/tragic tone of the chord changes and resigned helplessness of the melody…demo’d at Hyacinth mid 90’s…my mom liked this one…she said it would also be a great instrumental…fast forward to recording the Jack of Hearts album—I changed it back to Marjorie and reworked the lyrics a bit….Ron and I spent a lot of time on orchestration to give it a wide expansive symphonic feeling after the acoustic intro…that’s Ron on acoustic….modeled in part, I think, on the Beatles’ Because as far as using 3-part harmony in a minor key and on Donovan’s Lalena as far as truing to capture that hauntingly beautiful feeling about a sad lady with a tinge of tragedy…I tried real hard to avoid going into a happy ending or some kind of pedantic advice…just leave it as a portrait…glad I did

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Marjorie
Marjorie…dreaming in the afternoon
Carrying an ivory tune from long ago
Always sad…is melancholy’s reverie
How the Autumn loves to tease your memory
Marjorie…give it up and run to me
Will you be foggy eyed and far away forever on?
My Marjorie?
And she cries…tears upon a magazine
And the sky turns a dark and lonely gray
Forever on…for Marjorie
Now is raining…she’s complaining
There are clouds over Marjorie

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from Jack Of Hearts, released July 15, 2021
Gordon Michaels: vocals, synth keyboards
Ron Turner: acoustic guitar, programming, sound effects

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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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