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Secret Song Series

I'm sure every songwriter has songs they have recorded and, for whatever reason. they get tucked away and saved for later. As songwriting is an ongoing endeavor, sometimes these "secret songs" gather in our private stashes and eventually are rediscovered, often to be seen and heard in a new light. This series will reveal some of the songs in my secret collection.

Episode 4: "Lighthouse"

Recorded at Carousel Recording Studio, Brooklyn NY

Joe McGinty and I had been friends for a long time, working on many projects and shows together, so it was inevitable that we would collaborate on a composition and recording.

Joe had set up his awesome Carousel Studio in Brooklyn and sent me some piano music he had written. I wrote lyrics and a melody that seemed to come out of the music. I had recorded the sound of waves at Ocean Grove, NJ on a trip to the beach. We put that in and it seemed to set a mood.

Using that as a basis we developed the melody and countermelody with strings and vocals and made this song. I had just gotten some very cool string sounds and other toys that I brought to the studio, notably an original Waterphone (which I played with a cello bow) and of course my trusty 1973 E-Bow and Les Paul guitar.

Combined with Joe's collection of vintage keyboards, it was an audio playground of the highest order!

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Lighthouse
(Lyrics: Barone; Music: Barone/McGinty)

Do you wanna go?

I think you need to know
that the wind blows cold
that the cold wind blows

Did you need some more?

Could you see the shore?
Did we lose the wind on our flight?

Or is all right, adrift in the darkest night?



We lost our sense of time
Blinded, but sublime
I guess we’ve seen most everything
The lighthouse calls when the fog sets in.

Did I stay too long,
when I should have gone?
I used to wear my heart on my sleeve,
now I find it hard to believe

How the moments sank
Isolation tank
Has the morning come to reveal
we’ve nothing left to conceal?

We lost our sense of time
Blinded, but sublime
I guess we’ve done most everything
The lighthouse calls when the fog sets in

And now I know
how the clouds lets go
waving no goodbye
drift to another sky

And now I see
twisted in irony
what all the cynics say
I’ll tell you anyway

Lost all sense of time,
Damaged, but sublime
I guess we’ve said most everything
The lighthouse calls when the fog sets in

Now I know
how the clouds let go
now I know.

Do you wanna go?

© Richard Barone Music (BMI) / Tralfaz (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission.

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released August 7, 2020
Produced by Joe McGinty & Richard Barone
Recorded at Carousel Studios, Brooklyn NY

Richard Barone: Vocals, Waterphone, Guitar, E-Bow
Joe McGinty: Keyboards, Chamberlain Strings

Artwork:
Engraving by John Horsburgh (1791-1869) of a drawing by J. M. W. Turner: Artwork of the Bell Rock Lighthouse, Scotland, 1824.

℗ 2020 RBM Special Editions

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Richard Barone New York, New York

Richard Barone is a recording artist, performer, producer, & author. Since pioneering the indie rock scene in Hoboken NJ as frontman for The Bongos, Barone has produced numerous studio recordings and worked with artists in every genre. His recent album 'Sorrows & Promises' and latest book 'Music + Revolution' are tributes to the early 1960s music scene in Greenwich Village NYC, where Barone lives. ... more

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