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C​.​R​.​Y. (for Mr. York)

from RIDGEMONT ST by Rick Berlin (now playing w/ THE NICKEL & DIME BAND)

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Years back, as my first band, ORCHESTRA LUNA, was getting off the ground, I recorded a bunch of songs reel-to-reel. I had an upright piano with tacks in the hammers and I banged these tunes out so I wouldn't forget them (a condition that has lasted with me to this day). They embarrass me. My voice sounds operatic, and the playing is awkward. I show them to practically no one. But there's something endearing about them. They have an innocence that belies my later, albeit intermittent obsession with, hit songs and a 'career'.

This one, like many at that time was recorded at Ridgemont St in Allston - big yellow house at the end of the street which one night we closed off, dropped acid and had a square dance - and we could actually walk to Jeremiah's on Harvard Ave - the place where OL got signed onto EPIC from.

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C.R.Y. (for Mr York)

the baseball fields
n track n soccer
n math n geography maps
the first showers we ever took together
n best friends
but the thing for me was always
the choir, sweet music
boys voices in the air

the choir was led
his heart on his sleeve
mr death in venice
he loved us
you could see it
he loved us
we loved him back

but as we grew up
as we grow up
we could see him\
this man
for who he was

usta sit next to ricky simonson
in high school
our loafers hardly reached the floor
we sang our hearts out
everyone
we sang our hearts out
everyone

laudamus
laudamus te
benedichimus te
benedichimus te
benedichimus te

(?)

the only life we knew for him
was school
shining eyes glued to the piano
but at night what did ya do?

i guess you were alone, sir
i guess you were alone
piano in the summer
but at night you were alone

but in the day
in the school yard
songs came through
through the frosty window
the songs
came
through

and love
for you

usta sit next to ricky simonson
in high school
our loafers hardly reached the floor
we sang our hearts out
everyone
we sang our hearts out
everyone

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from RIDGEMONT ST, released April 19, 1975

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Rick Berlin (now playing w/ THE NICKEL & DIME BAND) Jamaica Plain

A giant on the Boston music scene. His colorful songwriting + strong stage presence have influenced countless other artists since the early 1970s. He continues to make music w/ intelligence + integrity, building an international reputation around his knotty, singular piano playing, straight-from-the-heart singing and a style of character-based songwriting that's drawn comparisons to Waits + Cohen ... more

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