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A song from the niche sub-genre that I call I Will See You Again When This Certain Thing Happens Songs. Two-part harmony in the chorus, the harmony line sung an octave higher than written because I did it as written before and just wanted to hear how it sounded with high harmony. Only one...

By request from Joo. Apparently I made a lead sheet for this song more than a year ago, and when I started practicing it, it was very familiar, so I must have practiced it before, but for some reason I never recorded it. I meant to put the sheet music cover art in the video, but forgot. I...

Another song about the man in the moon. In this song we have moon/spoon, moon/croon, and moon/tune, but no moon/June!

There a lots (and lots!) of old song about the moon, although they are really mostly about what happens in the moonlight. I've learned several such songs since I got into Tin Pan Alley music. So when I heard this one a couple months ago I had to learn it. To me it sounds like a good song for...

I changed the position of my camera because Joo said she missed seeing my cluttered bookshelf.

Part 2: Heartbreak. Now four years later, and the wife is gone (probably died). Her widowed husband is putting a sign on the door of their little bungalow. By Larry Conley & Willard Robison, 1929.

I picked out two songs for this theme, so this is part 1: Love. Meant to be a male/female duet, the first stanza is the man proposing and the second is the woman accepting his proposal. By Irving Berlin from 1925.

According to my metronome app, I usually do this somewhere in the high 90s bpm, cut time. This version is in the high 50s bpm. Or you could look at it as about the same tempo but in 4/4 instead of cut time. I think it sounds pretty good this way.

I know, but I don't want to do it all that much anyway.

I looked up "You Belong With Me" at ultimate guitar and the only way you can get the chords is the official version, which you have to pay for. She doesn't allow any unofficial versions to be viewed.

Here's "Angel From Montgomery" that I did the day after John Prine died. It's my favorite song of his. I didn't record it for the Seasons, just because I wanted to. Harmonies in the chorus!

This is a song about how the guy with the fast car gets the girl, which I guess must have been a theme in car songs since the beginning of cars. Maxwell was a major car manufacturer in the early 20th century, existing from 1904 to 1925. They had major problems in the years following WWI and...

This is a story told from the point of view of two fictional characters, Cyrus and Mary Jane Perkins, however, all the other people mentioned were real people who were involved in racing cars in the early years of the 20th century. The last stanza is about a real race called the Cobe Cup that...

An old 3-chord country song from 1954 that I still was hearing on the radio now and then in the late 60s when I was a little kid.

Another dime song, but a much happier song than my previous entry. I did a little research on it and found that it was first recorded in 1940, the year of its publication, by Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra with Harry Cool on vocals. It is still being recorded. Michael Feinstein recorded it in...

Gosh, thank you very much!

This was requested by Canada Jim.

I've done this song before, but this time I used a different instrument and didn't play it exactly the same. Also it's one of my favorite old songs.

This was recorded by the Andrews Sisters in 1950 when pop music had already begun transitioning to a more "modern" kind of sound before Elvis came along and changed everything.