Volume 1: Songs of Innocence
Besides writing, translating and dreaming about haiku, song-writing has been my other lifelong obsession, begun around age ten with "Skippy My Love Dog."
As a performer of my own songs, I'm a happy, perhaps more than slightly off-key amateur. My hope is that talented singers and musicians will adopt my songs and give them good homes on their albums and in their live performances. If you're such a person, contact me at my email address below. If you would just like to play my songs for fun, please buy my songbooks. There's no bass clef in the music I wrote, just a treble clef melody line plus chords—so if you want to play these songs on piano or any keyboard instrument, use your left hand to improvise based on the assigned chords. Experiment; enjoy!
Volume 1: Songs of Innocence
Old Grandpa's Songbook Volume 1: Songs of Innocence came out in December 2022; it presents 28 tunes given as a Christmas present to my then 9-year-old granddaughter. They were written for guitar, but they can be played on any instrument. Click the links to hear some selected samples.
Buy Old Grandpa's Songbook Vol. 1 Songs of Innocence
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Volume 2: Love Songs
I uploaded
Old Grandpa's Songbook Volume 2: Love Songs in September 2023—84 songs that chronicle my rollercoaster love life from 1969 to 2023. Click the links to hear some samples.
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Vol. 3 New Spirituals (2024)
This book will include:
old grandpa in his pre-grandpa days, 1973
All words and music © 1969-2023 by David G. Lanoue, rights reserved; contact me about permissions: david1gerard@hotmail.com.