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LOVE SONG FOR MOOSUP w Peter Barret

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

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Rick as Flo, Pete as Donny in a love duet for Moosup, The Musical. Two gay guys as man and woman. That, and the fact that in places the lyrics are indecipherable.

Years back, as my first band, ORCHESTRA LUNA, was getting off the ground, I recorded a bunch of songs into a 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 so operatic, and the playing is awkward. I show them to practically no one. But there's something vaguely endearing about them. They also have an innocence that belies my later, albeit intermittent obsession with hit songs and a 'career'.

This one, like many at that time is 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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LOVE SONG FOR MOOSUP w/ Peter Barrett

flo:
ya know Donny
we look just like a
couple of dips hits
don’t we honey?

donny:
heh heh
yeah

flo:
ya love me,
don’t ya?
you don’t talk much
but I know ya do

donny:
yes, i love ya Flo

flo:
ya know honey
when you’re away
? ...
shut my eyes n i go t think of you
in my mind n so like that i mean
love for you all day

donny:
me too

flo:
i’d do anything
you’d ask me
i’d walk naked down the street
in winter
into your arms

good bye honey
when you see eddy tonight
tell him that
i ain’t mad at him no more

this love i feel
as mother of my son
it stands so strong
against the shadows
of this world

? ...

i want this for him
just this for him
to try for love

what else is there
in this world
the sun rises n sets
? ...
behind my boy

? ...

n my heart cries out
my heart cries out

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from RIDGEMONT ST, released April 19, 1975

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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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