My Music
I have loved music my whole life and now I have begun to learn how to play it. I was first an engineer, then a writer, a college student again, an historian and a novelist. I wrote heartfelt, sometimes poetic, fictional literature, formed Southern Heart publishing and published my stories for a few years. I wrote a stage play and performed it with my wife the summer of 2017.
I had a guitar and used to play chords years ago. So I bought several harmonicas and a concertina. I began playing as a street musician in the squares of the city.
I bought a second guitar, a ukulele and a midi keyboard. Then I bought a digital piano and traded it in after a few weeks for the Yamaha baby grand you see to the left.
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Now I am writing love songs.
- Dave Jennings
P.S. If you are curious about who I am and my writing, click below for free books and my background.
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My purpose here is to share a list of my favorite songs, the ones I have loved and am learning to play and the ones I am beginning to write.
My newest love is the piano, a Yamaha Clavinova baby grand. I also tinker with harmonica, concertina, ukulele and guitar. Unfortunately I cannot sing. So the piano does it best.
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Of the songs I have written and am writing, one is a movie theme for the soundtrack of a movie that has not yet been made - Love and Glory. The movie would be based on an historic fictional novel that has been written - Hanna's Promise, A Story of Grace and Hope. I wrote it as my second novel in 2016.
Song List
Ballads & Standards
Angel Eyes (from Jennifer) - Matt Dennis and Earl Brent
Autumn Leaves (Les Feuilles Mortes - Johnny Mercer and Jacques Prevert)
But Not For Me (from Girl Crazy - George and Ira Gershwin)
Cry Me a River (Arthur Hamilton)
Easy to Love (from Born to Dance)
If (David Gates)
I Get Along Without You Very Well (Hoagy Carmichael)
I'll Be Seeing You (Irving Kahal, Sammy Fain)
I Remember You (Johnny Mercer)
If You Go Away (Jacques Brel)
In the Still of the Night (Cole Porter)
Love Me Tender (from Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley)
Misty (from Misty - Erroll Garner)
My Funny Valentine (from Babes in Arms - Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart)
Night and Day (Cole Porter)
Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz)
Someone to Watch Over Me (from Oh, Kay)
Somewhere (from West Side Story)
Stardust (Hoagy Carmichael)
Sunny (Bobby Heeb)
Time After Time (from It Happened in Brooklyn)
Unchained Melody (from Unchained)
What'll I Do? (Irving Berlin)
When Sunny Gets Blue (Jack Segal, Marvin Fisher)
Where Or When (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers)
Stage & Screen
All I Ask of You (from Phantom of the Opera - Andrew Lloyd Webber)
Bring Him Home (from Les Miserables)
Can't Help Falling in Love With You (from Blue Hawaii)
Empty Chairs and Empty Tables (from Les Miserables)
Feeling Good (from The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd)
I Don't Know How to Love Him (from Jesus Christ Superstar - Andrew Lloyd Webber)
I Dreamed a Dream (from Les Miserables)
I Will Always Love You (from The Bodyguard - Dolly Parton)
If I Loved You (from Carousel - Rodgers and Hammerstein)
Legends of the Fall (James Horner)
Memory (from Cats - Andrew Lloyd Webber)
My Heart Will Go On (love theme from Titanic - James Horner)
On My Own (from Les Miserables)
Summertime (from Porgy and Bess)
The Ludlows (from Legends of the Fall)
The Music of the Night (from The Phantom of the Opera - Andrew Lloyd Webber)
Try to Remember (from The Fantasticks)
What I Did For Love (from A Chorus Line - Marvin Hamlisch)
Country & Pop
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
By the Time I Get to Phoenix (Glen Campbell)
Gentle On My Mind (Glen Campbell)
Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
I Got a Name (Jim Croce)
I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song (Jim Croce)
Imagine (John Lennon)
Love, Let Me Not Hunger (Rod McKuen)
My Maria (Brooks and Dunn)
Piano Man (Billy Joel)
The Lover's Waltz (Jay Ungar and Molly Mason)
The Mountain House (Jay Ungar and Molly Mason)
Time After Time (Cindi Lauper)
Today (John Denver)
Vincent -Starry Starry Night (Don McLean)
When Flora Was Mine (Rod McKuen)
Wichita Lineman (Jimmy Webb)
You Raise Me Up (Brendan Graham, Rolf Lovland)
Folk & Gospel
Amazing Grace
Angels we have heard on High
Ashokan Farewell (Jay Ungar)
Beautiful Dreamer (Stephen Foster)
Blowin' in the Wind (Bob Dylan)
Carrickfergus
Danny Boy
Day by Day
Diamonds and Rust (Joan Baez)
Four Strong Winds (Ian Tyson)
How Great Thou Art
Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
Londonderry Air (Danny Boy)
Shenandoah
Silent Night
The First Noel
The Lord's Prayer (Albert H. Malotte)
The Minstrel Boy
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Joan Baez)
The Parting Glass (traditional Irish)
There Will Be Peace in the Valley
Light Classical
Clair de lune (Claude Debussy)
Musetta's Waltz (from La Boheme' by Giacomo Puccini)
Nessun Dorma (from Turandot by Giacomo Puccini)
My Compositions
Blues Muses in C Major
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Two Chord Moments in Jazz
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All That You Are
Love and Glory
Reflection in Blue
