Bill O'Hanlon's music
A number of people have suggested that I put my songs online. I have finally learned how to create my own websites and therefore can do this myself. Some of them are demos and some are more finished tracks. Click on the song's name to hear it while you are online. Turn on your computer speakers.
You can also download these songs by right clicking or ctrl-clicking if you are a Mac user and then saving the files to your computer. They are MP3s and you can burn them onto CDs, listen to them on your computer using any program you have on there that plays MP3s, or you can transfer them to your MP3 player or iPod.
I own the copyright and give you permission to share these files as long as you do not use them for commercial (money-making) purposes without explicit permission from me.
Sad House
Sad House. New song. Post-divorce sadness.
Backs Against the Wall
Backs Against the Wall. This one is from the 70s. Living in Arizona. I don't know how I survived those years sometimes, but I look back with fondness.
Special Delivery
Special Delivery. I wrote this after witnessing my son Patrick being born.
The Lonely One
The Lonely One was mainly written in 1978 and the bridge was added in 1993. My younger brother once asked me to "play that John Lennon song." I was confused. Which one?, I asked. "The Lonely One," he said. I replied that I had written it and he didn't believe me. he was certain it was a John Lennon song. One of the best compliments I ever received. Hope you like it.
What I Was Dreamin' Of
What I Was Dreamin' Of recalls the first woman I fell deeply in live with. I was too shy to tell her for some months and spent time just mooning outside her dorm. I realized years later she was barely involved. The whole thing was mainly between me and my dreams.
Friends With You
Friends With You was written in 1978 as well. I met a person and became fast friends. I like the little jazzy riff with the major seventh chords.
Power
Power was initially written in 1975 and the bridge was added in the mid-nineties, influenced by one of my favorite singer-songwriters, Aimee Mann. Rough draft, as you'll plainly hear.
TrancePlants
Trance Plants is a song written about one of my main influences, the late psychiatrist and hypnotherapist, Milton H. Erickson. I wished I could have talked to him about my work and my understanding of his work after I developed it after his death.
Why Should I Get Out of Bed?
Why Should I Get Out of Bed? is a depression song with upbeat musical motif. I was listening to a Werner Erhard audio and he said you have to go through depression and hopelessness to get to possibility. Guitar solo by my famous step-son, Nick Hexum, of the group 311. I feel proud that I taught him to play guitar when he was 12 years old and he has gone on to be such a success.
Spanish Mystery
My Little Spanish Mystery is a samba-influenced tongue-in-cheek love song. It was inspired by a Xavier Cougat songbook I had. The original words had to do with a communicable disease caught south of the border, but it morphed into a love song since I wanted to be able to play it in polite company. The end includes every Spanish phrase I remembered from high school classes (and some worked out by a friend and me in case we ever found ourselves in Mexico).
Django thing
Django Thing is a short instrumental in which I play with myself (not that way! Your mind is in the gutter). That's me on both guitars.
More to come. Thanks for listening.
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