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David Gittlin
Mar 20, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20211 min read
Acoustic Guitar Cover of Don McLean's "Crossroads" With Background Intro
“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, 20212 min read
“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, 20212 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20211 min read
“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, 20211 min read
Acoustic Guitar Cover of "Throw A Stone In The Water" and "It Doesn't Matter Anymore"
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, 20211 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
“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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