Bill's CDs


Bill's Solo CDs:

"Blasted in the Basement" - 2007

Bird on the Chimney
My Own Train
Dealer of Dreams
Been With You
Blasted in the Basement
Blind Travelers
Goodbye, You
Hearts Are Only Human
It's All Coming Back
Don't Look Down

Newly written songs of Bill's. Dedicated to the late Danny Pendleton, who played on many of the tracks. Please click on song title for individual song lyrics; click here to see all LYRICS and CREDITS

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I Guess He'd Rather Be In Colorado - 2002

1.   Nobody Can Take My Dream From Me
2.   Readjustment Blues
3.   Baby, You Look Good To Me Tonight
4.   Friends With You
5.   Take Me Home, Country Roads
6.   Please Daddy, Don't Get Drunk This Christmas
7.   She Won't Let Me Fly Away
8.   Dearest Esmeralda
9.   We Don't Live Here No More
10. The Potter's Wheel
11. Late Night Radio
12. I Guess He'd Rather Be In Colorado

New recordings of Danoff's songs originally recorded by John Denver, produced by Jon Carroll, Bill's partner from their Starland Vocal Band days. Read the Liner Notes written by Bill. For Sound Clips and to order the CD, go to CD Baby using this link:

Souvenir - 1989

1. The Potter's Wheel
2. Donda Esta Rosa
3. Road Signs
4. Caipirniha
5. Commodore 64
6. Good As Gold
7. Rodeo Me
8. Not What We Promised to Be
9. If There'd Never Been an Ireland
10. Take Me Home, Country Roads

A collection of songs written by the co-writer of "Take Me Home, Country Roads", John Denver's most successful recording. Founding member of the Starland Vocal Band and writer of the Grammy winning, "Afternoon Delight."

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"Blasted in the Basement" - 2007

Song Credits:
Bird on the Chimney © 1971 Cherry Lane Music Words and music Bill Danoff Old Tape: Lead vocals: Bill Danoff Acoustic guitar: Danny Pendleton Pedal steel: Danny Pendleton Bass: John Previti Fiddle: Mike Stein Mandolin: Mike Stein New Tape: Drums: Jon Carroll Background Vocals: Lucy Danoff, Jon Carroll My Own Train Words and music by Bill Danoff © 2007 Watch Your Head Music Lead vocal: Bill Danoff Track and background vocals: Jon Carroll Dealer of Dreams Words and music by Bill Danoff © 2007 Watch Your Head Music Old Tape: Lead vocal and acoustic guitar: Bill Danoff Pedal steel: Danny Pendleton Bass: John Previti Electric guitar: Paul Bell Synthesizer Horns: Mitch Collins\ Drum programming: Pete Ragusa New Tape: Drums, Wurlitzer electric piano, background vocals: Jon Carroll Tenor sax solo: Jim Horn Been With You Words and music Jon Carroll, Bill Danoff, Dexter Hodges © 2007 Watch Your Head Music Old Tape: Lead vocal and acoustic guitars: Bill Danoff Pedal steel: Danny Pendleton Bass: John Previti Electric and classical guitar: Paul Bell Synthesizer: Mitch Collins New Tape: Drums, percussion, Wurlitzer electric pianos, background vocals: Jon Carroll Blasted in the Basement Words and music by Bill Danoff © 2007 Watch Your Head Music Lead vocal and acoustic guitars: Bill Danoff Track, horn arrangement and background vocals: Jon Carroll Baritone and tenor saxes: Chris Watling Trumpet: Alan MacEwen	Blind Travelers Words and music by Bill Danoff © 2007 Watch Your Head Music Old Tape: Lead vocal: Emma Danoff Harmony voice: Maura Kennedy Electric guitar: Pete Kennedy Acoustic guitar, midi instruments: Bill Danoff New Tape: Vocal: Bill Danoff Bass: Owen Danoff Drums, acoustic and electric guitars, pianos and organ, background vocals: Jon Carroll Goodbye, You Words and music by Bill Danoff and Fred Koller © 2007 Watch Your Head Music and Lucrative Music Old Tape: Lead vocal and acoustic guitar: Bill Danoff Electric guitar, background vocals: Jon Carroll New Tape: Background vocals: Jon Carroll, Bill Danoff & Owen Danoff Fiddles: Robert Spates Drums, percussion: Jon Carroll Hearts Are Only Human Words and music Bill Danoff © 2007 Watch Your Head Music Old Tape: Lead vocal and acoustic guitar: Bill Danoff Pedal steel: Danny Pendleton Mandolin, piano: John Jennings Harmony voice: Mary Chapin Carpenter New Tape: Drums, acoustic rhythm guitar, harmony vocal, electric piano: Jon Carroll It’s All Comin’ Back Words and music Bill Danoff © 2007 Watch Your Head Music Old Tape: Original lead vocal: Tom Lepson Harmony vocals: Bill Danoff, Taffy Danoff and Margot Carroll Bass: Ron Newmeyer Electric guitar: Paul Bell Drum programming: Pete Ragusa New Tape: Drums & percussion, piano & organ, vocals: Jon Carroll Don’t Look Down Words and music by Bill Danoff and Doug James © 2007 Watch Your Head Music and Old Tape: Lead vocal and acoustic guitars: Bill Danoff Pedal steel: Danny Pendleton Bass: John Previti Acoustic guitar: Sean McGhee New Tape: Lead vocal: Bill Danoff Drums & percussion, acoustic guitar, electric piano, background vocals: Jon Carroll
Song Lyrics:
Been With You Words and music Jon Carroll, Bill Danoff, Dexter Hodges It must show on my face Soon as I walked in the place the talking stopped And I was paranoid Could be I imagined that It must be me they’re staring at But I’m just who I am Didn’t think that I’d look different but I do ‘cause this smile won’t go away It’s gonna be with me all day They know I’ve been with you The ghost of the night before is standing there outside the door just waiting It’s a shadow, it’s a dream And I don’t know what it means But I’m thinking Didn’t think that I’d feel different , but I do ‘cause this picture still remains Like kissing goodby at the train I know I’ve been with you The TV casts a strange blue glow They’re watching some real people show I said “What’s cookin’” The silence could have stopped a war I hoped that that’s what it was for They just kept looking Didn’t think that I’d act different, but I do And no matter what I say She just turns and walks away She knows I’ve been with you She knows I’ve been with you She knows I’ve been with you been with you And that ghost with his ghostly grin Is standing by the door again Blasted in the Basement Words and music by Bill Danoff They used to say when we were young that the atomic bomb Would blow us all to smithereens So they marched us to the basement in a nice straight line And said to put your head between your knees Well, I didn’t know why it would work But I did it anyway, it seems That’s what began these dreams Getting blasted in the basement Underneath the pavement Someone tell me what’s goin’ on Someone turn the radio on Well later on when I was twenty I found out That there was plenty of the world for me to see But it cost a lot of money and I didn’t have me any And I had to find a place to be So I wound up in a basement with my honey and my guitar And a set of sweaty string And we spent the evenings Getting blasted in the basement Underneath the pavement Someone turn the radio on Blasted in the basement Wonderin’ where the days went Someone tell me what’s goin’ on, yeah Someone turn the radio on Well I finally got to see the world or Some of it at least before they blow it all away California, Carolina, Canada and China And here I am today Mostly makin’ music in a studio below The world I witness on the news And if we win or tie or lose They’re gonna find me Blasted in the basement Permanent erasement Someone turn the radio on Blasted in the basement Wonderin’ where the days went Someone turn the radio on, yeah Someone tell me what’s goin’ on, yeah Someone turn the radio on My Own Train Words and music by Bill Danoff No picture in my frame No car in my driveway No driveway No window in my pain Nowhere to hang the blame Just highway No goodmornin’ words No singin’ of my birds Just silence Unless you count to road noises gratin’ on my nerves No violence Waitin’ at a crossroad for a train to pass, The way the sun is I can see my image in the glass. Scenery behind me lookin’ at a map Me without a railway makin’ my own track O, I’m my own train now Goin’ by my own ghost town Where once lived love, mysteriously gone The shadow and the sun. Stopped behind a three-way on the freeway Puts your life in delay Someone else’s troubles in someone else’s traffic in your day Gives you time to notice signs you never would have looked at before Like that spot never got painted in the corner goin’ out the back door. I’m my own train now Goin’ by mountains of clouds On time, whenever, Put the hammer down Trains don’t turn around Don’t wait at that station This train don’t turn around. Goin’ by, bye-bye Bird on the Chimney Words and music Bill Danoff Bird on the Chimney and heat’s on the rise Flappin’ to keep the smoke from his eyes He should be perchin’ in that clump of trees But for the cold of the Winter, The fireplace is warmer I’m lonesome, come back to me please. Snow petals fallin’ to cover the grass Tryin’ so hard to each be the last Floatin’ like feathers along on the breeze, Until the wind blows away And the snow’s left to stay O I’m lonesome, come back to me please. I’m hungry for more than a forgotten meal I need you I pretend I don’t feel all the pain, but it’s real And I do. Willows are weepin’ icicle tears Not really sure if the Spring will appear Sunshines, like memories, come by to tease Then go and hide in the clouds and the willows cry louder I’m lonesome, come back to me please I’m lonesome, come back to me please. Dealer of Dreams Words and music by Bill Danoff How I got to Reno doesn’t matter to the story of this song But I loved the cowboy attitude and cheap saloons And so I hung around The desert in the daytime, an occasional casino Every night Cause I love the peace and quiet and for danger I’m attracted to the lights They got a river called the Truckee, rhymes with who you feel like when you get divorced And a bridge where they throw wedding rings down from and cry a few tears of remorse But the air is clean and simple there, it’s easy to believe in what you see That’s why I thought I was mistaken when I felt her daring eyes Staring at me She took all my money and drove me to drink Said “Better luck next time,” and gave me a wink She’s a Dealer of Dreams She threw the cards across the table like the money didn’t matter just the style And I can’t afford to gamble but I come there every night to see her smile Be careful what you wish for, sometimes it never rains it pours it seems Like a losing Blackjack player falling in love with the dealer of his dreams She took all my money and drove me to drink Said “Better luck next time,” and gave me a wink She’s a Dealer of Dreams I’m not saying I’m an angel but I can’t believe I’m dying here like this It’s got so I look forward to a push when all I wanted was a kiss (Alternative next lines) a.) They say winning isn’t everything, I tell myself and lose back every dime b.) I’ll say this for her she’s faithful, which If she were my woman would be fine So/But as it is if you see someone’s hands out begging you for change they might be mine She took all my money and drove me to drink Said “Better luck next time,” and gave me a wink She’s a Dealer of Dreams She took all my money and drove me to drink Said “Better luck next time,” and gave me a wink She’s a Dealer of Dreams	Blind Travelers Words and music by Bill Danoff It is fate that finds us here today On our own together on our way Let us share our stories of people that we knew And tales of joy and danger In the lands that we’ve been through We are blind travelers Going where we want to go We are blind travelers Learning what we need to know How to cross mighty rivers Where to find hope in life’s storms We are blind travelers moving on Life goes on if skies are blue or gray The world turns to face the sun each day The road is never easy, but it can be less hard Every step a challenge Every triumph a reward We are blind travelers Going where we want to go We are blind travelers Learning what we need to know How to cross mighty rivers Where to find hope in life’s storms We are blind travelers moving on May you live a long time May you do what you will And free like the river Go where you feel Seeing is believing and I’ve seen dreams come true May the spirit of dreams go on with you We are blind travelers Going where we want to go We are blind travelers Learning what we need to know How to cross mighty rivers Where to find hope in life’s storms We are blind travelers moving on Goodbye, You Words and music by Bill Danoff and Fred Koller Spanish moss in a cypress tree Oyster shells beneath our feet Arm in arm in the heart of town Hand in hand up the neutral ground Streetcar rollin’ down the avenue It’s one French kiss and a goodbye, you Goodbye, you and I won’t be long I’ll be back and then I’ll be gone It’s one French kiss and and I love you I love the way you goodbye, you Seems my bas are always packed If I’m not goin’ I’m comin’ back Old man river got a hold on me Headin’ up the water to Tennessee Tonight I’ll call brom Baton Rouge To hear you whisper “Goodbye,you” Goodbye, you and I won’t be long I’ll be back and then I’ll be gone It’s one French kiss and and I love you I love the way you goodbye, you Goodbye, you and I won’t be long I’ll be back and then I’ll be gone It’s one French kiss and and I love you I love the way you goodbye, you It’s All Comin’ Back Words and music Bill Danoff It’s the feeling I remember From the first time being a stranger On a hilltop Such a long, long way from my home It’s a new friend It’s the love light And it’s happening again tonight It’s all coming back I’m feeling that feeling again It’s comin’ Back It’s all comin’ back It’s comin’ back It’s comin’ all back Like a Class Reunion Comin’ together again It’s a wonder It’s a power Don’t the years go by like they’re hours Here we are now Making those new memories It’s comin’ Back It’s all comin’ back It’s comin’ back It’s comin’ all back Back where we started Comin’ together again Oh we had our hopes and we had our dreams And we lived on love and desire Then a Hard Rain came and the Times they changed From innocence into fire Higher and higher It’s comin’ Back It’s all comin’ back It’s comin’ back It’s comin’ all back Somehow we made it Comin’ together again It’s the music It’s the moonlight Everything is gonna be all right It’s the dancin’ And I feel like dancin’ again It’s comin’ Back It’s all comin’ back It’s comin’ back It’s comin’ all back Keeps getting better Comin’ together again It’s comin’ Back It’s all comin’ back It’s comin’ back It’s comin’ all back I remember We’re comin’ together again It’s comin’ Back It’s all comin’ back It’s comin’ back It’s comin’ all back Like a Class Reunion Comin’ together again Don’t Look Down Words and music by Bill Danoff and Doug James I’ve never been one who likes to ride on airplanes And buildings of more than four floors seem to sway But lying here in your arms the world looks so far down below I feel something that I never thought I’d say Don’t look down ‘cause up is all that matters Don’t look down We’ll both be mad as hatters If we see how high we are we might get scared and stop Let’s find ourselves a friendly star And make love at the top And just don’t look down Don’t be afraid of falling ‘cause I’ll be there To catch you if you do And, baby, even if you fall I know that it won’t hurt at all ‘cause I’ve already fallen Fallen in love with you Even the longest road must lead to somewhere Even the widest ocean has a shore Even the sky must finally end in heaven Baby, why don’t we spread our wings and soar And just Don’t be afraid of falling ‘cause I’ll be there To catch you if you do And, baby, even if you fall I know that it won’t hurt at all ‘cause I’ve already fallen, Fallen in love Already fallen, fallen in love I’ve already fallen Fallen in love with you Hearts Are Only Human words and music Bill Danoff My bed is sad My pillow’s fightin’ mad When the sun comes up I’m lying wide awake My dreams are bad A new life frightens me But it’s losing you that’s more than I can take Hearts are only human They make mistakes sometimes And loneliness punishes love crimes Forgiving isn’t easy It takes a special skill Forgetting’s hard But I hope that your heart will. I can’t erase the hurt I’ve done to you It’s imprinted on the pages of our past But I can’t face the day’s that we were due Won’t they ever build a love that’s made to last Hearts are only human They make mistakes sometimes And loneliness punishes love crimes Forgiving isn’t easy It takes a special skill Forgeting’s hard But I hope that your heart will.

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