David Gittlin
Another Slice of “American Pie”
Don McLean released his iconic album, “American Pie,” in 1971. The title song epitomizes the era of the nineteen sixties. A famous lyric...
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David Gittlin
- Mar 4, 2022
- 1 min
True Colors
“True Colors” is a song with legs. It started out as a song written for a mother in a traditional ballad format. Billy Steinberg and Tom...
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David Gittlin
- Feb 16, 2022
- 2 min
Time After Time
Time After Time is a Cyndi Lauper song. I’ve never been a big fan of her music, but that only means it doesn’t resonate with me in...
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David Gittlin
- Dec 28, 2021
- 1 min
“American Pie” Gold Nuggets
“Crossroads” is another great song by Don McLean. It first appeared on his hit album, “American Pie.” Although the song is not as...
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David Gittlin
- Oct 28, 2021
- 2 min
“Vincent” Revisited
I’m reposting a blog previously titled “Vincent: A True Lover.” I’ve decided to re-learn the song closer to the original. “Starry, starry...
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David Gittlin
- Oct 7, 2021
- 2 min
Back Story: “Early Morning Rain”
In 1964, Gordon Lightfoot wrote one of his most memorable songs: Early Morning Rain. Lightfoot, a Canadian singer-songwriter, has become...
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David Gittlin
- Sep 27, 2021
- 1 min
Kathy’s Song Eva Style
Who doesn’t remember Simon and Garfunkle singing Kathy’s song? The answer is probably tons of people under the age of thirty, but who’s...
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David Gittlin
- Aug 20, 2021
- 1 min
Where Does The Time Go?
Fifty years have flown by at supersonic speed. I can flash back on memories of my childhood and adolescence and remember them clearly as...
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David Gittlin
- Jul 20, 2021
- 2 min
Is There Anything I Can Do?
In these troubling times, it seems like the world could go off a cliff at any moment. I remember what it was like in the nineteen-sixties...
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David Gittlin
- Jul 11, 2021
- 2 min
An Unfinished Life
“I live for a sense of a feeling of purposefulness in this world, you know, that I could stop my life at any point and feel that my life...
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David Gittlin
- Jun 8, 2021
- 1 min
“Fields of Gold”
“Fields of Gold” is one of Sting’s most famous songs. It is a stunning and thoughtful track about the journey of commitment. The song...
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David Gittlin
- May 3, 2021
- 1 min
Throw A Stone In The Water
Kate Wolf left a legacy of over two hundred songs that she recorded and performed in live concert. I’ve played a number of those songs...
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David Gittlin
- Apr 16, 2021
- 1 min
The Gathering Of Spirits
I had never heard of Carrie Newcomer before a friend played one of her songs in an online gazing/meditation class. “The Gathering of...
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David Gittlin
- Mar 18, 2021
- 2 min
Appreciating The Beauty Within And Without
A photographic interpretation of the Kate Wolf song “Muddy Roads.” Visit http://www.davidgittlin.net for the full post titled “Through...
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David Gittlin
- Mar 10, 2021
- 1 min
Awakening Vision
There is beauty within us. There is beauty everywhere in the world. All we have to do is to want to feel it and see it. Even in the...
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David Gittlin
- Feb 9, 2021
- 1 min
Through Her Music
I choose to wander in sunlight to avoid the riptide of darkness threatening to engulf our world. I prefer to see and hear beauty. I...
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David Gittlin
- Jan 25, 2021
- 1 min
Love In An Open Field
“Lay me Down Easy” is technically a blues song. To me, the song sounds upbeat with a whisper of the blues in the background. And there’s...
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David Gittlin
- Jan 19, 2021
- 1 min
Beauty In Blue
I first heard “Cornflower Blue” as the opening song on Kate Wolf’s 1983 double album “Give Yourself to Love.” As I listened to the...
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David Gittlin
- Dec 24, 2020
- 1 min
Looking Back On Warm Times With Friends
“With a voice that has all the sweetness of a California morning and the loneliness of the sea beating against its rocky shores, it’s a...
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David Gittlin
- Oct 26, 2020
- 1 min
“Give Yourself to Love”
Kate Wolf came to prominence during a ten year period from 1975 to 1985. Tragically, Leukemia brought Kate’s life and singer/songwriting...
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