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A live (tracked) performance at my weekly show that I've been wanting to sing for 40 years and to catch it live was a great opportunity to snag a recording. I'll definitely keep this one in the rotation - it's such a great song written by the Vannelli's and sung by Gino's magnificent multi timbred voice. This was the single song in history that changed my own musical direction and I remember that being the first time I'd heard a man sing with that kind of power and control and emotion in his voice. I've since covered several of his songs including 3 from the "Nightwalker" album itself. I've had the pleasure of meeting him 3 times now as well and that album not only deeply affected me at the time of it's release but also 2023-2024 as one of the main albums I listened to during the cancer journey. I hope I brought it a bit of justice. Thiis was only my 2nd take on the song and I'm sure there will be others.

By far my favorite Christmas or holiday tune, I have recorded this before and used this same arrangement, but it was at least a decade ago and my style has changed along the way in many ways. This is the Larry Gatlin arrangement which floored me the first time I heard it - seems tailor-made for me!

Probably one of Dan Fogelberg's best songs - and there are many of those to choose from. I haven't done much of his stuff over the years although I really really like most everything I've ever heard. I believe he was tremendously talented, and maybe I'm just having a Renaissance moment. This song has been in my head the last week or so, and this was the easiest way to get it out.

By far my favorite LRB song, this is patterned after their 2nd recording of the song on "The Hits...Revisited" with a slightly faster tempo than the 1983 recording. I rushed at the chance to record this a few years ago and didn't like the resulting recording, I'm much much happier with this vocal performance and added a bit of production myself to the arrangement. I think it rocks and it's always going to be one of my favorite tunes.

Probably one of the most beautiful tunes I've ever heard, with the original version being stunningly performed by Gino Vanelli. I had actually heard just a piano & vocal version he'd done, and then I heard the studio version and was even more blown away. But there's more about this song than just this cover version. In the early 80's after I graduated high school, I began singing in some of the local nightclubs in the area around Oak Lawn in Dallas, and was introduced to a man named Paul Allen. Paul was an incredibly talented pianist and we hit it off very well. We performed at a club called "The Blue Mill" for over 2 years on a regular basis and really became close friends. Life happens, you go in other directions, and it was wonderful to be able to pop in where he was playing pretty much anywhere - and he'd always ask me to come up and sing a few songs. He could play literally anything and played for many many people over the years. We still stayed in touch through social media and email, and every once in a while i'd forward a song to him or he'd suggest something to me to learn. We both sent this song to each other at different points; he was blown away by the piano only version and I was blown away by Vanelli's voice on both. We said we'd make it happen one day. Well, many years passed, and I got contacted to perform at a memorial for another fabulously talented individual who had played for many many people over the years and was a good friend of Paul's, mine, and many others. Buddy Shanahan. I immediately knew that Paul would be playing and we both knew it was time to work this one up. But we had very little time, no sheet music arrangement, and Paul said he'd just transcribe it out when I got there to rehearse. We had one rehearsal the day before the memorial and there we were, over 30 years from those first days of playing together, to performing a song that we had both been wanting to do for years and years. It was the last time that Paul and I would see each other or perform together again, as he was tragically taken away from us all in a senseless crime the next year. I still have a hard time watching the video of our performance, knowing he is not here anymore, and the wonderful love of music he shared with anyone he ran into in his life. I hope he rests in peace, and I had promised him at one point I was going to do this in the studio. I hope his angel gets to hear it because I love how this turned out. It also marks the first recording I've ever gotten to do in which I was able to get a successful vocoder recording in an arrangement. It's in the 2nd verse, and brings a dreamlike quality to the words, in my opinion. It's beautiful slow jazz; a song like this comes along once in a lifetime to get to spend time working on and recording. If you like this you should really check out both versions that Gino Vannelli has done - they're both on Youtube.

One of the most popular songs of the entire 70's, this sad tale about life has moments of happy sounding chord progressions.. but it covers the life of a man after being left at the altar, losing his parents, and unsure of what life has to bring. But it's also one of my all time favorite songs that I've wanted to record. I hope you enjoy my take.

This is such a timeless and classic song originally written and performed by the legendary Roy Orbison. Don McLean covered it several years later, taking the song out to a lushly orchestrated ballad arrangement, which happened to be the first version of the song I heard and became familiar with. I've always loved it, and many years later, kd Lang recorded it both solo and as a duet with Roy Orbison himself. If you get the chance, you should check out a live recording she did several years ago that you can find on YouTube, and hear what she does with her amazing voice with this song.

In honor of Bobby Caldwell, who recently passed, and was the original artist of this great song. Go West recorded it too many years later, and fortunately stayed true to the original arrangement. I just started doing this song a few months back as it's an all time favorite, and it gets a grear reception every time. This is a live recording, slightly mixed, that I'll probably end up doing in the studio soon. Hope you enjoy this classic!

This is one of the most iconic songs from the entire late 70's and 80's catalog combined. It is still played on radio and it's just such a great song. You can almost feel yourself out in the wind, on a quiet sailboat, just you and the water, and maybe someone special with you. I had done it live years ago and decided it was time to update it. I completely remade the intro with those awesome orchestrated swells and put in a little actual sound of being on the water along with it. .... I hope you enjoy! Just meant to be a one-off, but the recording kind of took on a life of it's own in the process. I love this song.

Air Supply was the first group to release the song "The Power of Love" in the United States, several years before Celine Dion had a mega smash hit with it. It was also recorded and released overseas and then again in the US by Laura Branigan before Celine too. None of the US versions hit, but I think this arrangement, using Air Supply's arrangement and instrumentation is superior. There is only one other male version that I am aware of and that is by Englebert Humperdink several years ago. It's a "big" song - and I have wanted to sing it since hearing the original release by Air Supply, which I believe was 1985. I do hope you'll enjoy it.

This was one of Toto's slightly lesser hits (but only slightly) following their megahits with Toto IV, and a change in the lineup on most lead vocals, but it was strong enough to be the lead single from their "Fahrenheit" album. I loved the song immediately and covered it literally within weeks of it coming out - at a club in Dallas, TX where several hundred people heard me. This would have been in 1986. Fast forward to 2023, and a friend who was local back then (has since moved away) posts the song on my Facebook page and tells me that they heard me sing it - way back when - and that it left a lifetime mark on them, and has special meaning. That may be one of the most wonderful compliments that I've ever received in my life. I think every singer hopes for a real moment to have that kind of impact or an impression in someone's memory, and it really warmed my heart. So I decided to record it and did that tonight. There will probably be a video following soon, but not immediately as I'm still in the catch-up stage on some other projects. I hope you enjoy this!

ABBA was one of the most successful pop groups fro the 70s and 80's before they disbanded for a 10 year period. This has always been one of my favorite songs of theirs, and after finding a piano-only track, decided to make a full blown cover of it with my own choice of instrumentation. Everything you hear in this recording except the piano is by yours truly ;-)

A great 80's pop tune that floated on the airwaves like a nice warm summer breeze. The original version by Sergio Mendes featured the amazingly talented Joe Pizzulo, probably one of the most underrated singers of pop music at the time. In my opinion, he should have been a household name as his vocals were gleaming on this track as well as the hit duet "Never Gonna Let You Go" (with Leeza Miller) - both songs were huge radio hits under Sergio Mendes productions. The tune has great structure and amazing backing harmonies. I've recorded this previously using a track that was done with vocal elimination software. This version is the full track with all vocals being reproduced by yours truly ;-) It is a work in progress with minor changes being tweaked here & there and will be updated accordingly

This song stuck with me from the first moment i heard it and Amy Lee's amazing powerful vocal will live on forever past our days. The haunting melody and rock arrangement of the last chorus are things of pop music greatness. I never thought I'd get a chance to record it, but stumbled upon a track with a lowered key and thought I'd give it a shot. Mostly the same arrangement, but I took dramatic license of the "stopping points" to bring the song to a complete pause on each of those, although brief. A video will be up soon with this. Great song.

Just having some nostalgic fix, Rick rollin' with this classic...

The classic song originally recorded by Celine Dion & Andrea Bocelli, convered here by a vocal coach from Australia and myself, two people who have never met, talked, or know each other. I found her version online where she had just recorded the female verse, and i am in the process of learning this song so it was a great opportunity. This was only my second take but I liked how we blended. I don't speak Italian and this is all learned phonetically for me... But the song is just beautiful and fits into my current mode and pattern. I hope you like it and I will be recutting this with Hope Boyle at some point in hopefully the not too distant future. Recorded June 23, 2022.

MercyMe made history with this amazing song by having the most successful contemporary Christian song on the charts, ever. The song has a great history and story behind it which is chronicled in the movie, "I Can Only Imagine". One for all the feels, for sure. While I knew if the song itself, I was only vaguely familiar and had never sung it before. In the last year, my personal journey toward spirituality and faith became more cemented, and the joy I get from mentally imagining myself as the person singing this song to Jesus, should I be among the forgiven, and how I would feel is immense. It captured so much of how I felt, the power of God's love for us, and have me hope that maybe my life is valuable after all. With Him, I know it always has been even if my self doubt has waned greatly over the years. My pastor said some very magical words to the congregation on my 2nd visit before becoming a member of the church that really drove the point home for me, and they were simply: "Even if you have taken your eyes off the Shepard, he has not taken his eyes off of you." Open your eyes, and let yourself imagine... I will be making mixing revisions and a few overdubs along the way on this song, and will update the file accordingly before the video is completed but I did not want to delay posting this great tune any longer. I hope you enjoy my take on this great testament...

I only became aware of this song a few weeks ago when asked to lead it at church, and learned it pretty quickly. However it reallly touched a chord within me and I decided to record it at home and experiment with it a little. Will make some other changes to it at some point, but I love this one. I hope you enjoy it!

In the mid-80s Sheena Easton, while riding a huge wave of commercial success, took time out of her busy schedule to learn Spanish - phonetically - and re-record several of her biggest English-language hits for the Latin America market on EMI. As most were only familiar with hearing her awesome Scottish accent speaking English, this was a surprising move but also a very successful one as the album produced a Grammy winning song in a duet with a then-very-young (15) year old teen singer named Luis Miguel with their hit "Me Gustas Tal Como Eres". (a song which did not have an English counterpart, incidentally). I received a copy of the album for my birthday that year from Sheena's then-management-secretary Andi Stevens, who knew how big a fan I was of Sheena's. Also not speaking Spanish in any sort of understandable way, I was immediately struck how the beauty of the language enhanced the songs I already knew; notably on the tile track which was the Spanish version of Sheena's previous hit "Almost Over You". There is a recording on my SoundCloud of the single one time I did this resulting duet live, at a karaoke show in the early 90s, which alternates between English & Spanish phrases & verses. Now, all these years later, I decided to do a proper studio based recording of the vocal, and this is the 2022 version, with a small alteration at the end which fans of the original song by Sheena will recognize immediately as a change. I was pleased with the way this turned out and after all these years, actually know what some of the phrases mean ;-) Here is "Todo Me Recuerda a Ti" ("Everything Reminds Me of You", aka "Almost Over You" with Sheena's lead vocal and my dubbed duet voice. I hope you will enjoy this.

one of two new songs I am getting to do at church, both of which knocked me out with the lyric content at this particular time of my life. This is just a demo, my first take vocal recording. I'll definitely be working this one up