This is Tom Jones Gets 9 BroadwayWorld Awards! Well this is fun news. The world premiere of my musical This is Tom Jones! received 13 BroadwayWorld nominations. The winners were announced recently and we won 9 awards! Not too shabby for a world premiere. And for a show that never had a reading or a workshop. Yeah, who thought that was a good idea? Here's what we won: Best Musical Best Ensemble Best Direction of a Musical Best Dance Production [...]
Spend the Night With Me Lyric Video I'm doing what I can to get my show Tom Jones the Musical out into the world, so I made a new lyric video for the song Spend the Night With Me. This song appears in the famous eating scene. Almost everyone I know who has seen the 1963 film version of Tom Jones talks about the eating scene. And everybody kept asking me if the eating scene was in my show. How [...]
You Can Now Stream the Tom Jones the Musical Album It's here! The concept album for my show Tom Jones the Musical is now out and available wherever you stream music. I really want to get this show out into the world. I'm really proud of what my good friend Paul Mirkovich and I did with the 1960s British Invasion-inspired music (I penned all the songs and he made them sound fantastic). And a huge thank you to all my [...]
Best Christmas Songs - Just to Be With You (This Christmas) For the love of god I'm far behind in my 25 Days of Christmas songs list. Every year I swear I'm going to be on top of things and then every year the season gets away from me. New to the list this year is "Just to Be With You (This Christmas)" by Nick Lowe. It was released in 2013 on his Quality Street album. The song was written by [...]
Best Christmas Songs - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus Okay, so Day 15 in my 25 Days of Christmas Songs list of what I think are the best Christmas songs is coming in on the 22nd. Oy. So far behind. Today it's a very rare recording of Amy Winehouse singing I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. I think it's from the Q Awards in 2004. Side note: The Pet Shop Boys were award the Q Inspiration Award and The Red Hot Chili Peppers [...]
Best Christmas Songs - A Christmas Song For You - The Kik Man oh man I am trying to catch up on my 25 Days of Christmas list, in which I countdown, in no particular order, what I think are best Christmas songs. "A Christmas Song For You" by The Kik is a fantastic throwback to the early 1960s Beatles beat. I can't find much info about Kik. Pretty much all I can find is the band is a Dutch band. [...]
Best Christmas Songs - Snowing in the East on Christmas I am so far behind in my 25 Days of Christmas list I can't stand it. This happens every year. I have to lay off the eggnog. Today's song is "Snowing in the East on Christmas" by Joseph Washington Jr. [embedplusvideo height="385" width="640" editlink="http://bit.ly/2hUVOAn" standard="http://www.youtube.com/v/TE5gMWlifTg?fs=1" vars="ytid=TE5gMWlifTg&width=640&height=385&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=" id="ep7669" /] Snowing in the East on Christmas - Joseph Washington Jr. I can't find any information about Joseph Washington Jr. I have no idea [...]
Best Christmas Songs - 8 Days of Hanukkah Well, Day 13 of my 25 Days of Christmas Songs (Yes I know I'm a day behind), in which I count down what I think are the best Christmas songs, has to take a brief detour. The first day of Hanukkah falls on Christmas Eve this year so I thought I'd go with a Hanukkah song today. Now Hanukkah isn't known for its songs. In fact, none of the Jewish holidays are known for [...]
Best Christmas Songs - Mele Kalikimaka New to my 25 Days of Christmas Songs list, in which I countdown my favorite Christmas songs, is "Mele Kalikimaka" by Chris Isaak. Written in 1949 by Robert Alex Anderson,"Mele Kalikimaka" takes its title from the Hawaiian phrase Mele Kalikimaka, meaning "Merry Christmas". The most famous recording of it was by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters in 1950. That's a pretty darn good recording but I prefer Chris' version. [embedplusvideo height="385" width="640" editlink="http://bit.ly/2gJvKcx" standard="http://www.youtube.com/v/QMpXqW3Vifc?fs=1" [...]
Best Christmas Songs - Christmas in the Room Let's face it, Christmas is a time for bittersweet songs. For every kiss stolen under the mistletoe there's grief from the memory of family and friends no longer with us. Believe me, I know. Christmas in the Room by Sufjan Stevens Christmas in the Room captures the bittersweetness of the holidays and life. But the song by Sufjan Stevens (He has a brother named Marzuki. What up with those names?) hits on what's really [...]
