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All About Love
Jim Gallagher
Download track Credits, Author’s notes & Lyrics1All About Love
Author's Notes
Wrote this, played it for Rus and we said “SO John Lennon”! I said “let’s do it as a Beatle production.” I asked Rus and Greg Stoffa his cousin to cut the basic track with Scott Rouba on drums and we cut it one weekend when a ton of family was around. After adding some other instruments we had everyone there come down in the studio and sing the chorus. My grandchildren Katie and Ryan Gallagher and nephew Christian Mammarella-Pietrafetta (age 6, 3 and 3 respectively at that time) can be hear prominently on the sing-a-long tracks. I had taught them the song on previous visits playing it and singing it together so that they could join right in with the adults and get it right away. Rus’s idea to add the fake horns in the bridge is fantastic (so Sergeant Pepper!)! I have kidded that if Paul McCartney were ever to hear this song, he would pick up his phone and say “Get my lawyer on the line!” Anyway, it is our homage to the greatest band ever. Hope
you like the CD insert, thanks Jeff Otto of Boris Garcia for the idea!Words and Music by Jim Gallagher © 2007 Dedicated to Ryan Allan Gallagher
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Linger
Jim Gallagher
Download track Credits, Author’s notes & Lyrics2Linger
Author's Notes
Most recently written and most focused on at the end of this CD. I ended up adding everyone to my original demo (keeping only my keyboards) and polishing it up quite nicely I think. I love the atmosphere it creates now. Carla makes her 3rd appearance on as many of my CDs. (Check out the full long version! Available only here on the website.)
Words and Music by Jim Gallagher © 2007
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Ready
Jim Gallagher
Download track Credits, Author’s notes & Lyrics3Ready
Author's Notes
On the day we cut “All About Love”, “Since I” and “Every Day” Rus started to play this bass line between cutting the other tracks. He did a ref vocal calling out changes for what became the chorus and Greg and Scott nailed it. I fixed little things with ProTools then added more guitars (GO CHUCK) that great clav (wow John) and real horns! (Big thanks to Matt, Walt and Nick and Ron Kerber for introducing me to them) The intro clav thing was so cool that I could hardly believe it! Silva and Rus tear it up! Can you believe this was only the first time she ever really recorded in a studio!?! Oh yeah, and I was the one who “has a fever and the only cure is… MORE COWBELL!”
Words Jim Gallagher and Music Rustin Gallagher © 2007
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Close To Me
Jim Gallagher
Download track Credits, Author’s notes & Lyrics4Close To Me
Author's Notes
I wrote this one with Chuck McCrory. I had the changes and no melody. He wrote the melody and I then wrote the words. Producing this was a great deal of fun. The vibe is so sexy, and the solo is so strong, thanks Chuck. Also thanks to my sexy sirens singing in the back Cheryl Coveleski (who added some extra “flavor” too) and Rachel Sutcliff (who by the way was a member of Patti Labelle’s choir on the national TV show “Clash of the Choirs”!
Words by Jim Gallagher Music by Jim Gallagher and Chuck McCrory © 2007
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Every Day
Jim Gallagher
Download track Credits, Author’s notes & Lyrics5Every Day
Author's Notes
Rock on! I had the nerve to sing this one but wow, how about the band?!? Jim Eyles appears for the first time on my stuff on lead guitar! Rock on! Pam helped me write the words in the bridge, she is so cool! Thanks to Tom (Mr. Perfection) Basmajian for getting my vocal done right!
Words by Jim Gallagher and Pam Mammarella and Music by Jim Gallagher © 2007
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Open Your Eyes
Jim Gallagher
Download track Credits, Author’s notes & Lyrics6Open Your Eyes
Author's Notes
This is another tune written with Chuck. It’s his music and my words. Sometimes we can and can not see what is right in front of our eyes…
Words by Jim Gallagher Music by Chuck McCrory © 2007
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Livin’ and Lettin’ Go
Jim Gallagher
Download track Credits, Author’s notes & Lyrics7Livin’ and Lettin’ Go
Author's Notes
One of the first tracks completed for this disc. At one of my jams I had complained to Liz that I was blocked writing lyrics but was not having trouble with the music lately and she said. “I have some lyrics that I wrote” and began to repeat them. I heard the rhythm in the words immediately and said write them down and get them to me. A couple weeks later I played her the song as it is written here and she loved it and we went about making the version you hear here.
Words by Liz Bressi-Stoppe Music by Jim Gallagher © 2005
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Safe Harbor
Jim Gallagher
Download track Credits, Author’s notes & Lyrics8Safe Harbor
Author's Notes
Simple, pleasant and comfortable are how I think about this song. Jim and April (and April’s husband, Dave Fecca whose guitars grace “Linger”) appearing on all 3 CDs I’ve made now. Thanks so much!
Words and Music by Jim Gallagher © 2007
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There Can Only Be One
Jim Gallagher
Download track Credits, Author’s notes & Lyrics9There Can Only Be One
Author's Notes
Joe Mammarella, my brother-in-law came to me and said “I have these words I wrote that I always thought would make a nice song”. I said, “Let me see them” and this is the result. I had to have his sister Sue sing it (her 3rd appearance too). I thought it would end up sounding kind of country but after Chuck added the lead guitar well that was that!
Words by Joe Mammarella Music by Jim Gallagher © 2007
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Every Time I…
Jim Gallagher
Download track Credits, Author’s notes & Lyrics10Every Time I…
Author's Notes
Chuck says, “This reminds me of a Frank Lloyd Wright song…” Angela Falco is my favorite composer. Here I have once again have had the privilege to co-write a song with her. Someone asked me (maybe her) where did this song come from? I have said that it is about something that happened to me almost 33 years ago. Chuck of course meant to say Andrew Lloyd Webber but it came out as quoted above and cracked us all up. Jack Klotz making his 3rd CD appearance also, just blows me away with his soprano acoustic guitar!
Words Jim Gallagher and music by Angela Falco © 2007
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Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired
Jim Gallagher
Download track Credits, Author’s notes & Lyrics11Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired
Author's Notes
(Featuring Boris Garcia AKA UC&TAVLink to Boris Garcia's Facebook)
Me, bassing with Boris! What a dream come true! I wrote the song one weekend when I was home sick with the flu. I could not write any verses but the music and the chorus was finished. I gave a copy to Jeff when I came back to work and threw it on his desk and said, “I’m sick and tired of this, you finish it!” He did. His first version included a literal lyric about “that’s what I get for swapping spit with you” I remember, but the week before his great band Boris Garcia came to the Vinyl Room to record, (btw most of the guys said that they wanted to live there) Jeff rewrote the verses to what we have here today (better for a pop market, I guess ☺). I can not tell you how happy and proud that I am to have Jeff and Boris Garcia on this disc. Thanks guys and come back anytime!
Words & Music by Jeff Otto and Jim Gallagher © 2007
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Train Time
Jim Gallagher
Download track Credits, Author’s notes & Lyrics12Train Time
Author's Notes
In my monthly jams I would listen to Chuck and others do some classic blues tunes and I said to myself, “I want to write a blues song to do at the jams”. So I wrote this one. Chuck kills it, of course, and his lead guitar was recorded live with the track no overdubs. Jim played his heart out on harp and my primary reader from my Penn Masters degree, Tom Schoenemann, is on drums. It also features a rare Roycee Martin appearance. Come back and play more, guys! Anytime!
Music by Jim Gallagher © 2007
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Since I (Fell in Love with You)
Jim Gallagher
Download track Credits, Author’s notes & Lyrics13Since I (Fell in Love with You)
Author's Notes
This one I played for Rus because I was considering not including it and he said, “It has a great feel and is a good tune” so we did it on that day we cut 4 tracks (and Greg and Rus wrote a bridge right then and there but I cut it out later, oh well). I am glad now that it is here Angela said after doing that flute part that she had not played in a little while but that it was like riding a bike…. Man if only I had such gifts! Speaking of gifts, how about those vocals! Dan’s first time (also on “Every Time I…”) on one of my CDs and Carla, Oh my God! She sang on 3 tunes in one night and wow! As good as she is on the other 2 this one blew me away in fact her backgrounds made the track feel entirely different, wow!
Words and Music by Jim Gallagher © 2007
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Under the Radar (Rejection)
Jim Gallagher
Download track Credits, Author’s notes & Lyrics14Under the Radar (Rejection)
Author's Notes
What can I say? 6 lead guitars at once, screams from the pits of hell, and all the frustration and anxiety I could cathartically put in here. Believe it or not, I had to mix it 5 times to get it where I wanted it!
Music by Jim Gallagher © 2007
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Nightfall
Jim Gallagher
Download track Credits, Author’s notes & Lyrics15Nightfall
Author's Notes
This is an instrumental that I wrote and performed and then was convinced by my son Rus to include. Thanks to T. J. Jacoby for his help on the fade/edit. I offered it to Eve Okupniak (btw they have Franey blood in them too!) of GOSONOIO to use in a short film… maybe someday…
Music by Jim Gallagher © 2007
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Album Notes
Thank you to all the wonderful, talented and trusting vocalists and musicians without whom this album would never have been possible.
All Songs Produced by J. P. Gallagher for Pam 'N' Me Productions.
Mixed by J. P. Gallagher. Recorded by J. P. Gallagher and Joe Kraus at Studio 705 at AIPH, M.A.R.S. at The University of the Arts, Turtle Studios, Phila., PA, Mad Ferret Studios, Hatboro, PA, Omniplex 2000, Camden, NJ, Hard Hat Studios & The Vinyl Room, Merchantville NJ.
Mastered at Masterworks, Phila., PA by Joe Kraus and J. P. Gallagher and at Discmakers, Pennsauken, NJ by Paul Elliott and J. P. Gallagher.
Music by Angela Falco
TRACK 1,2 &3
Words and Music by J. P. Gallagher
TRACK 7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14
Music by Jack Klotz Jr.
TRACK 6
Music by James Imbesi and Dan Levinson
TRACK 5
Music by J. P. Gallagher and Dan Levinson
TRACK 3
Thank you to all the wonderful, talented and trusting vocalists and musicians without whom this album would never have been possible.
Special thanks to Susan Mammarella who first demoed almost every song.
Thanks to Peter Humphreys, Morris Ballen, Stephan Rossmeisl, Mike Nise, Arthur Stoppe, Cal Davies, Fran Smith Jr., Kevin Mackie and Jim Cravero.
Dedicated to my one and only love, Pam Mammarella. Everlasting 6/21/91.
Thanks to Jean Becker for the "Trust In Love" wedding video. And thanks again to Bruce Hawes who sang it for us at the wedding. Watch the "Trust In Love" wedding video at the Media Page.
"Trust In Love" Wedding Video
Art Design by Michael Santaspirt. Photography by Rob Crites.
Album cover
Demo for commercial consideration only. Not for sale or release. Contact Jim Gallagher at Pam 'n' Me Productions
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Carla Benson
TRACK 1
Jeff Harvey
TRACK 2
Suz Lake
TRACK 2, TRACK 3
Paul Jost
TRACK 3
Darrel Hawes
TRACK 4
(@) Jeff Mulhern
TRACK 4
Lucy Malia
TRACK 6, TRACK 7, TRACK 11
April Iorio
TRACK 8, 10 Bgd. Vox; 10
Gordon Haverly
TRACK 9, Bgd. Vox; 5 &6.
Mark Stinger
TRACK 10
Leigh Woolston ($)
TRACK 12, Bgd. Vox; 10 &12 Percussion; 10
Susan Mammarella
TRACK 13, Bgd. Vox; 10 &12
Wayne Urffer
Bgd. Vox; 10 &12
Brian Bortnick
TRACK 14
VOCALISTS
Angela Falco
Piano, Flute; Keyboards;1,2,3,5,6,7 and 13
Ted Greenberg
Drums, Perc. and Programming; 1,2,5; Bass; 5
Dan Levinson
Real Strings, Programming &Keys; 1,2,3,4,5
Tom Basmajian
Drums; 6,7,9, Percussion; 5,6 &9
Jack Klotz Jr.
(^) Electric Guitar; 2,3,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12; Acoustic Guitar; 6,7,13; Electric Bass; 12
Bob Karsch ($)
Electric Bass; 6,7,8,9,10,11; Organ; 11; Keys and Bgd. Vox; 10.
David Fecca
Electric (Lightning) Guitar; 8,10; Bgd.
Electric (Lightning)
Guitar Vox; 10.
Rusty Crowe
Drums; 8,10,12; Percussion; 10,11
Stephan Rossmeisl
Electric Guitar; 9,11; Acoustic Guitar and Bgd. Vox; 12
Eric Sales (L)
Electric Guitar; 2
Joe Mekler
Percussion; 7
Rob Marcinko
Electric Guitar; 9,11
Greg Stoffa
Acoustic Guitar; 10
Jim Becker ($)
Electric Guitar; 10, 12
Rustin Gallagher
Acoustic Guitar; 10,14
Jim Imbesi
Acoustic Guitar; 5
Tony Iannuzzi
Drums; 11
Art Franklin
Electric Bass: 14
Chris Michaels
Synth Bass; 1
Caryn Lin (%)
Violin; 1
“Arty” Orst Artyniw
Violin; 1
Richard Hotchkiss
Cello; 1
Chris Farr (L)
Soprano Sax; 1
Brian Bortnick
Electric Guitar; 14
John Adamski
Drums; 14
Edgardo Cintron (>)
Percussion: 1
David Edelman
Violin; 1
Brian O’Byrne
Viola; 1
Howie Thompson
Upright Bass; 1
Maryann Coppa
McCann Harp; 1