Some Original Material

[ProfessorGAC]

I finally figured out Wondershare and can convert DVD to YouTube video.
These 3 songs I wrote in the late 80s to early 90s.
This performance, based on my keyboard rig, has to be prior to 1993.
Hope you enjoy.

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[highplainsdem]

1. I like all three! You're a very talented songwriter.

I like Love On Ice best - my first thought listening to it was that this could/should have been a hit - with I'll Never Fall In Love Again a close second (love the keyboard intro, and overall the song reminds me of Journey). Both sound very radio-friendly to these ears. Twist My Words has great vocals.

I would appreciate it if you could email the lyrics to me, though, because I'm having trouble understanding some of them on all three songs. (Anyone else not able to make out all the lyrics?) I wouldn't advise posting your original lyrics here, though, when any AI-using twit with zero knowledge of music can feed them into a music generator to have it churn out a song in seconds.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. I'll See If I Remember Them!

Pretty sure I "...Love Again" might be a little harder. I delegated the lead vocal to the guitar player because I wanted the high harmony just right.
I waffles on Love On Ice, but passed that to him, because the guitar part is pretty minimal & I didn't want to bore him with the tune. As the lead vocal, he was fully invested. Not that he wouldn't have been anyway. He knew how to be a professional. I just thought it was the right thing to do.
I'll get back to you with those lyrics.

[Clouds Passing]

3. Twist My Words - my fave

I agree with hpd that either Love On Ice and/or I’ll…Again could have been hits. Tinges of Talking Heads, Cars, Foreigner. I would like the lyrics to Twist My Words. No doubt they're prolific.

Thanks for giving us the pleasure of hearing and watching your creativity.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. I Sent Lyrics To Love On Ice To HPD

She wanted the others too
When I type those out, I'll PM "Twist..." to you.
I always thought Twist My Words would fir on a Fixx album, though it's not a lift.
I'll Never Fall In Love Again was actually written because a guy says it in a movie I was watching. I immediately thought "That would be a good song title!" Over the next 3 days I wrote that.
Interesting side note:
I'd record demos of these & give the band a tape. The approach was always "This is how it goes, but if you have better ideas, do it as long as it keeps the feel."
On "I'll Never..." the first rehearsal after they had the tape, I was surprised to hear that the guitar player played rge solo nearly as I recorded it. I said "You didn't have to keep the solo as is." He replied "There was no reason to change it"

[Clouds Passing]

5. I enjoyed your intro on I'll....Again, ala Kieth Emerson, Rick Wakeman.

PS Your stagewear rocks

[highplainsdem]

7. You wrote:

I'll Never Fall In Love Again was actually written because a guy says it in a movie I was watching. I immediately thought "That would be a good song title!"

It was, for Bert Bacharach and Hal David, for the 1968 musical Promises, Promises. (And yes, I know - before your time, at least before you were listening to Top 40 radio.). Huge hit in 1970 for Dionne Warwick, and it won a Grammy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ll_Never_Fall_in_Love_Again

The most successful version of the song to be released as a single in the US was by Bacharach-David protégée Dionne Warwick, whose recording made its first appearance on the Hot 100 in the issue dated December 27, 1969, to start an 11-week run that took it to number six.[5] The January 3, 1970, issue marked its first of 11 weeks on the magazine's Easy Listening chart, where it enjoyed three weeks at number one,[6] and a seven-week stay on their list of the 50 Best Selling Soul Singles in the US began in the next issue and included a peak position at number 17.[15] Her version also spent four weeks at number one on the Canadian Adult Contemporary chart[16] and reached number three on the Canadian pop chart.[17] The Dionne Warwick version is noted for Burt Bacharach playing a counterpoint melody on the piano, which is heard at the fading Coda section of the song.

At the 12th Annual Grammy Awards on March 11, 1970, Bacharach and David were the songwriting nominees of "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" in the Song of the Year category but lost to Joe South for "Games People Play".[22] Because the eligibility period ended on November 1, 1969,[22] however, Warwick was not nominated until the following year, when she won in the category of Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Female.[23]

At the Grammys:

[highplainsdem]

8. Really appreciate your sending those lyrics. Though I'm sorry to have made extra work for you.

[marble falls]

6. Nice set. Especially Twist My Words.

Here's one from a group operating at around the same time out of Akron ...

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10 extra points if you recognize the duck call player.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. No Bonus Points For Me

But, he does look familiar.

[marble falls]

10. Ralph Carney.