5-6 50th Episode Spectacular!

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Over the past three interviews and five episodes, I was beginning to get the feeling that we were drifting too far afield of the original intent of this podcast. That is writing and performing songs. However, each of our subjects are song writers.
Mark Baxter our Vocal Behaviorist has been writing songs all along since he started in rock bands in the last century. Yaron Gershovsky, band leader of the Manhattan Transfer, is constantly writing and publishing new, original songs. And Debra Monk, our star of stage and screen, early in her career, collaborated on the songs for the Tony nominated “Pump Boys and Dinettes” and other musicals. So, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I hadn’t wandered too far from my original purpose. All these people are legitimate songwriters. This is often what the life of the songwriter is like. Precious few can live off their songwriting talent alone.

Now, I’m not a rich person. Oh, I do Ok, and I don’t really lack for anything, but I don’t have a lot of disposable income. So, I’ve decided to sort of pay back these three with the only currency I have. I’ve written three new songs. Each one of the three subjects inspired a different song. Today we’ll hear those songs and follow the process of their creation.

Welcome to the 50th episode of the Tim Tunes podcast. Begun on a whim almost three years ago, I started with the stories and recollections of my best songs. I thought I’d be done once I made through the first batch. But episode after episode, I managed to find some songwriting or performance-based content to share with you listeners.

In this episode we’ll explore three recently written songs that were inspired by the subjects of this season’s podcast. If you haven’t listened to episodes 5-1 through 5-5, I suggest you go back and give them a listen to better appreciate these songs.

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Chapters

1. 5-6 50th Episode Spectacular! (00:00:00)

2. Intro (00:00:10)

3. Stars and Stripes and Fireworks (00:01:36)

4. Prologue (00:02:32)

5. Open Your Heart - Mark Baxter Story (00:04:14)

6. Open Your Heart song (00:08:42)

7. Music, Music, Music! - Yaron Gershovsky - Story (00:11:43)

8. Music, Music, Music! - Song (00:15:23)

9. No Shortcut - Debra Monk - Story (00:17:22)

10. No Shortcut - Song (00:18:50)

11. Outro (00:21:52)

12. Tod Pronto Teaser - Me and My Guitar (00:23:08)