a nearly two-hour interview by Greg Shanks about my music, with details
reviewing Black Doves; Dark Matter; Dept. Q; Detective Hole; Dexter: Resurrection; Fauda; For All Mankind; Foundation; Hijack; Memory of a Killer; MobLand; Outlander; Paradise; Presumed Innocent; Reacher; Severance; Silo; Slow Horses; Smoke; Star City; Star Trek: Strange New Worlds; Tehran;The: Day of the Jackal, Diplomat, Night Agent; Your Friends & Neighbors +books, films, music, podcasts, politics
George Santayana had irrational faith in reason - I have irrational faith in TV.
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Monday, November 1, 2021
Podcast Review of Invasion 1.4
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 203, in which I review the fourth episode of Invasion on Apple TV+. This episode of the podcast also includes congratulations from Don Frankel and his very famous alter-ego! Written blog post review of Invasion 1.4 is here. Podcast review of episodes 1.1-3 is here.
Listen to "If I Traveled to the Past" with Don Frankel's accordion on Spotify, Bandcamp, and Apple Music.

Wednesday, June 30, 2021
"Merri Goes Round" Played on The Music Authority Today

Robbie Rist + Don Frankel = Sundial Symphony
That's right -- starting at 4 minutes 54 seconds into the first hour of today's Music Authority program, you'll hear Sundial Symphony singing "Merri Goes Round," a song I wrote with Ed Fox in 1971, recorded back then by a studio group I put together called The Trousers.
Sundial Symphony's version was recorded in 2016, and released on Big Stir Records in 2019. I should mention that Sundial Symphony consists of Robbie Rist (yep, Cousin Oliver) and Don Frankel. Don played keyboard on lots of the tracks on my 1972 LP Twice Upon A Rhyme, and accordion on "If I Traveled to the Past" and "Tau Ceti" on Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time, released on Old Bear Records and Light in the Attic Records (vinyl) in 2020.
James Jim Prell, DJ for The Music Authority, says all the songs he plays are chosen by "algorithm". But I owe him a big thank you anyway, for presiding over that algorithmic choice!
- listen to today's Music Authority (any time) -- Merri Goes Round starts at 4min54sec, and there are lots of other great songs in this episode
- Twice Upon A Rhyme on Spotify and Bandcamp
- Welcome Up on Spotify and Bandcamp
- reviews of these albums and more
Monday, November 25, 2019
Debuting Welcome Up LP at Philcon 9 November 2019
vinyl, digital, and CD copies of Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time to be officially released by Old Bear Records in early 2020 - but you can get an advance copy of the CD here
more about Paul Levinson's music
Monday, November 18, 2019
Watchmen 1.5: Some Enchanted Evening

That was the best thing about tonight's insane episode 1.5 of the insano Watchmen - "Some Enchanted Evening" - sung first by Sinatra at the beginning of the episode and at the end by some group unknown to me. But my favorite rendition of the song that Ezio Pinza first sang in Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific all those years ago has always been this one by Jay and the Americans.
As to the tale tonight, we get the back-story of Looking Glass, who's traumatized as a teenaged boy in Hoboken. Yeah, I know, Hoboken, NJ can be frightening in our reality, but not that bad. In the alternate reality that is Watchmen, Hoboken and nearby NYC are attacked by a squid that kills countless people. Those squids, again, prompting the FBI guy years later to talk about a squid pro quo, giving tonight's episode an odd resonance to our own political situation (I was tempted to use that as the title).
I just want to take a moment here to say that I still have almost no idea what's going on with Adrian Veidt, which is one of the reasons I said I liked "Some Enchanted Evening" the best tonight. I can only hope that he'll escape from his prison before this first season (I don't know, has it been renewed?) ends, and proceed to Tulsa or some place pertinent to the main story, which would give all these scenes of his trying to escape and failing at least some modicum of relevance.
I liked the Jay and the Americans' version the best because of the harmony. I used to sing the song with my folk rock group, The New Outlook, in the Alcove at CCNY when we were still more of a doo-wop than a folk-rock group. The Alcove was indoors, and we sang there rather than outside because we were worried about raining squids - no, only kidding, we liked the acoustics.
Anyhoo, see you here next week, when we'll learn the fate of Looking Glass, I hope.
In the meantime, one more thing: Don Frankel, in a group called Sundial Symphony with Robbie Rist which has recorded some of my songs on Big Stir Records - like Looking for Sunsets (In the Early Morning) - always sounded a lot like Jay.
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
My Set List for 9 November 5:30pm Philcon performance

Jeremy Thompson, Paul Levinson, Steve Padin, Chris Hoisington
Here's the set list for my 9 November 2019 (Saturday), 5:30-6pm performance at Philcon (in Cherry Hill, NJ, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel), room Plaza VI (Six) - the first public performance of songs from my new science fiction related album, Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time, produced by Chris Hoisington and to be released by Old Bear Records in early 2020:
Welcome Up (Paul Levinson)
Picture Postcard World (Paul Levinson)
backing tracks for If I Traveled to the Past, Tau Ceti, Samantha, Alpha Centauri, Welcome Up, I Knew You By Heart, Picture Postcard World: guitars Jeremy Thompson, drums and keyboard Steven Carlos Padin, harmony and production Chris Hoisington, keyboard Anthony Hoisington, accordion Don Frankel
backing track for Cloudy Sunday: guitar Peter Rosenthal, piano Barbara Krupnick, harmony and production Chris Hoisington, production Paul Levinson
more about my music: Reverbnation, Facebook, Bandcamp, Spotify
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The rest of the convention should be lots of fun, too. Here's my schedule:
Fri 6:00 PM in Executive Suite 623 (1 hour) READINGS: PAUL LEVINSON, APRIL GREY, JAMES CAMBIAS (3723) [Panelists: Paul Levinson (mod), April Grey, James L. Cambias] Note: I'll be reading from a brand new alternate-Beatles story, "It's Real Life," for the first time in public!
Fri 7:00 PM in Crystal Ballroom Promenade (Gaming) (1 hour) AUTOGRAPHS: PAUL LEVINSON, APRIL GREY, JAMES CAMBIAS (3726) [Panelists: Paul Levinson (mod), April Grey, James L. Cambias]
Sat 11:00 AM in Crystal Ballroom Two (1 hour) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS (3590) [Panelists: Jeff Warner (mod), David Walton, Rebecca Robare, Anna Kashina, Paul Levinson, Muriel Hykes] Does “I think, therefore I am” apply to AI? Could it ever? How could we tell if it happens
Sat 3:00 PM in Plaza V (Five) (1 hour) JEWISH SCIENCE FICTION (3530) [Panelists: Simone Zelitch (mod), Paul Levinson, Aaron Feldman, B. Lana Guggenheim, Daniel Kimmel, Alex Shvartsman] Is it a subgenre of its own? Plenty of Jews write SF, and plenty of non-Jews incorporate Jewish history and elements of the Jewish supernatural into their work. What can we learn from this classification, and does it enrich or limit how we read
Sat 5:30 PM in Plaza VI (Six) (30 mins) Paul Levinson mini-concert
Sat 11:00 PM in Crystal Ballroom Two (1 hour) GAME OF THRONES (3600) [Panelists: Charlie Robertson (mod), Michael A. Ventrella, Muriel Hykes, Paul Levinson] It wouldn't be inaccurate to say that *everybody* lost when it comes to the HBO adaptation. How should the show have ended? How might the ending of the novels differ
Sun 12:00 PM in Crystal Ballroom Two (1 hour) HOW FAR CAN YOU SUSPEND SOMEONE'S DISBELIEF? (3514) [Panelists: Elektra Hammond (mod), Paul Levinson, Lawrence Kramer, Julie Ann Dawson, Robert E. Waters] How much can you ask a reader to take on faith before they can't take your story seriously any more? Are there ways to get readers willing to accept more challenging changes and assumptions? What authors have succeed at pushing the boundaries without pushing their readers out of the story
Thursday, September 12, 2019
The Coming of Age of "Merri Goes Round"

Ed Fox and I wrote "Merri Goes Round" in the early 1970s - I wrote the lyrics, Ed wrote the music, and I sometimes spelled the title with hyphens, like "Merri-Goes-Round". Truth is, it was a throwaway, bubblegum song, something we wrote after landing a contract with Buddah Records to release "Ring Around My Rosie," by a group called Protoza, and led by David Fox (no relation to Ed), who also wrote the words and music to Rosie. You can hear that here.
But Ed and I thought so little of Merri that we didn't even think of including it on Twice Upon a Rhyme. We did go into a 16-track studio in New York, and recorded a demo that came out so good we realized it was marketable as a finished master record. We got Bruce Scott, a little known singer, to do the lead. Our regulars Pete Rosenthal on guitars, Boris Midney on sax, and most of the rest were on the record, and I was wailing in the background with my usual falsetto. The record sounded good. But we were still amazed when we sold it to Jimmy Wisner's Wizdom Records, where it was released as a single under the group name Trousers (yep, I came up with that). It was soon forgotten. You can hear it here.
Many decades passed. Sometime around 2013, Don Frankel - who, as Donny Frankel, had played all manner of keyboard, including accordion, on Twice Upon a Rhyme - sent me a CD with a recording he and Robbie Rist had made of "Looking for Sunsets (In the Early Morning)," one of the best-known songs from Twice Upon a Rhyme. Robbie, in case his name sounds familiar, was on the original Brady Bunch, has had a great career as one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the bus driver in Sharknado (also released in 2013). Don and Robbie called their group Sundial Symphony, and they gave Sunsets a zestful performance (you can hear that here). They followed the next year with their power-pop rendition of the lead-off track from Twice Upon a Rhyme, "Today Is Just Like You" (that's here).
And, then, about two years ago, Don surprised me with news that he and Robbie (as Sundial Symphony) were doing a song not on Twice Upon a Rhyme - "Merri Goes Round". The thing is, I gotta tell you, from the moment I first heard their recording of Merri, I was blown away. I think it's much better than the original - power pop works better for the song than bubblegum. Big Stir Records liked it, too, first releasing it as an A-side of a single (with "Looking the Sunsets" as the B-side), and then including both on their Third Wave compilation album, with lots of fine recordings by other power-pop artists.
Here's Sundial Symphony's "Merri Goes Round":
I don't know about you, but I can't stop listening to it ...
PS - And here, as a bonus, is a just-published interview I did in July, with all kinds of old and new photos, about how I came to write the lyrics to "Looking for Sunsets (In the Early Morning)".
Monday, January 1, 2018
Videos of My Music on YouTube
This page will be a list, updated daily, of each video I posted or find posted on YouTube, for those who would like to keep track. A more or less complete discography is here, and lyrics to some of my songs are here.
First up: all thirteen tracks for Twice Upon a Rhyme, released in 1972 on HappySad Records, re-issued as CD with three bonus tracks by Big Pink/Beatball Records (South Korea, 2008) and Vivid Records (Japan, 2009), and remastered on vinyl by Whiplash/Sound of Salvation Records (UK, 2010, and in second re-issue, 2012).
1. 1 January 2018: Today Is Just Like You, from my 1972 album Twice Upon a Rhyme, words and music by Paul Levinson, April 1969, lead vocal Paul Levinson; also recorded by Sundial Symphony (Robbie Rist and Don Frankel) in 2015 (HappySad Records, 2013) (see #35 below for that video link; and see #75 below for link to alternate mix by Paul Levinson).
2. 2 January 2018: Looking for Sunsets (In the Early Morning), from my 1972 album Twice Upon a Rhyme, words and music by Paul Levinson and Ed Fox, March 1969, lead vocal Paul Levinson; also recorded by Protozoa (Buddah Records, 1973, see #80 below for link to video), James Harris (demo, 2007, see #79 below for link to video), Jha Voice (demo, 2010, see #65 below for link to video), Catherine Asaro (demo, 2012, see #81 below for link to video), Sundial Symphony (Robbie Rist and Don Frankel, see #36 below for link to video) (HappySad Records, 2013; Big Stir Records, 2019).
3. 3 January 2018: Gentle Blue Cherry Bell, from my 1972 album Twice Upon a Rhyme, words and music by Paul Levinson and Ed Fox, December 1968, lead vocal Paul Levinson.
4. 4 January 2018: I'm Seeing You In a Different Light, from my 1972 album Twice Upon a Rhyme, words and music by Paul Levinson and Ed Fox, January 1969, lead vocal Paul Levinson.
5. 5 January 2018: Learn to Learn, from my 1972 album Twice Upon a Rhyme, words and music by Paul Levinson and Ed Fox, February 1969, lead vocal Paul Levinson. Recorded by Jha Voice in 2010 (link to video coming in March).
6. 6 January 2018: Looks Like a Night (I Won't Catch Much Sleep In), from my 1972 album Twice Upon a Rhyme, words and music by Paul Levinson and Ed Fox, May 1969, lead vocal Ed Fox and Paul Levinson.
7. 7 January 2018: Raincheck, from my 1972 album Twice Upon a Rhyme, words and music by Paul Levinson and Ed Fox, May 1969, lead vocal Paul Levinson; also recorded by Trousers (Featherrock Records, 1970) (video, if available, will be listed here, likely sometime in February 2018)
8. 8 January 2018: You Are Everywhere, from my 1972 album Twice Upon a Rhyme, words and music by Paul Levinson and Danny Kaley, August 1968, lead vocal Paul Levinson.
9. 9 January 2018: Forever Friday, from my 1972 album Twice Upon a Rhyme, words and music by Paul Levinson and Ed Fox, June 1969, lead vocal Ed Fox and Paul Levinson.
10. 10 January 2018: The Soft of Your Eyes, from my 1972 album Twice Upon a Rhyme, words and music by Paul Levinson, October 1968, lead vocal Paul Levinson; written by Paul Levinson at Tina Vozick's piano in 1968; sung by Paul at their wedding in 1976, and at Simon and Sarah's wedding in 2010 (video will be listed here sometime in February). Recorded by Jha Voice in 2010 (see #43 below for video link).
11. 11 January 2018: Antique Shop (The Coming of Winter), from my 1972 album Twice Upon a Rhyme, words by Paul Levinson, music by Peter Rosenthal, October 1968, lead vocal Paul Levinson.
12. 12 January 2018: Not Yet Ready To Say Goodbye, from my 1972 album Twice Upon a Rhyme, words by Paul Levinson, music by Linda Kaplan and Paul Levinson, October 1968, lead vocal Paul Levinson; also recorded by Tony DeSanto (demo, 1970) (see #83 below for link to video of that recording, see #84 below for link to video of alternate version with additional lyrics of track from Twice Upon a Rhyme with Paul Levinson lead vocal).
13. 13 January 2018: The Lama Will Be Late This Year, from my 1972 album Twice Upon a Rhyme, words and music by Paul Levinson and Ed Fox, November 1968, lead vocal Ed Fox.
And that concludes the songs from Twice Upon a Rhyme. Next up, starting tomorrow, will be a daily listing of songs from Spun Dreams (HappySad Records, 2010), mostly studio and home demos from the 1960s.
more details about Spun Dreams here
14. 14 January 2018: Sunshine's Mine, from my 2010 album Spun Dreams, words and music by Paul Levinson and Stu Nitekman (aka Jonathan Hatch), 1966, lead vocal Paul Levinson; this is a studio demo, recorded in 1966, by The New Outlook (Paul Levinson, Stu Nitekman, and Ira Margolis), with Bobby Friedman on lead guitar,
15. 15 January 2018: Evening's Evergreen Morning, from my 2010 album Spun Dreams, words and music by Paul Levinson and Stu Nitekman (aka Jonathan Hatch), 1966, lead vocal Stu Nitekman; this is an unreleased master, recorded in 1968, by The New Outlook (Paul Levinson, Stu Nitekman, and Ira Margolis), with Peter Rosenthal on lead guitar.
16. 16 January 2018: Two Minus One, from my 2010 album Spun Dreams, words and music by Paul Levinson and Stu Nitekman (aka Jonathan Hatch), 1966, lead vocal Stu Nitekman; this is a home demo, recorded in 1966, by The New Outlook (Paul Levinson, Stu Nitekman, and Ira Margolis).
17. 17 January 2018: Murray the K's Back in Town, from my 2010 album Spun Dreams, words and music by Paul Levinson, 1972, lead vocal and harmony Paul Levinson; this is a studio demo, recorded in 1972, with Peter Rosenthal on lead guitar. (Here's an article I wrote about Murray the K in The Village Voice, in 1972, about his triumphant return to New York City.)
18. 18 January 2018: Please Don't Cry, Little Dove, from my 2010 album Spun Dreams, words and music by Paul Levinson and Stu Nitekman (aka Jonathan Hatch), 1966, lead vocals Stu Nitekman and Paul Levinson; this is a studio demo, recorded in 1966, by The New Outlook (Paul Levinson, Stu Nitekman, and Ira Margolis), produced by the late great Tash Howard; the first song Stu and I wrote that was professionally recorded.
19. 19 January 2018: Just That Kind, from my 2010 album Spun Dreams, words and music by Paul Levinson and Stu Nitekman (aka Jonathan Hatch), 1967, lead vocal Stu Nitekman; this is a studio demo, recorded in 1967, by The New Outlook (Paul Levinson, Stu Nitekman, and Ira Margolis), produced by Ellie Greenwich and Mike Rashkow, just as they heard us singing this in Central Park, before they signed us and changed our name to The Other Voices.
20. 20 January 2018: Yesterday's Rain, from my 2010 album Spun Dreams, words and music by Paul Levinson and Stu Nitekman (aka Jonathan Hatch), 1967, lead vocal Stu Nitekman; another studio demo, recorded in 1967, by The New Outlook (Paul Levinson, Stu Nitekman, and Ira Margolis), produced by Ellie Greenwich and Mike Rashkow, just as they heard us singing this in Central Park, before they signed us and changed our name to The Other Voices.
21. 21 January 2018: Happy Goodbye Baby, from my 2010 album Spun Dreams, words and music by Paul Levinson and Stu Nitekman (aka Jonathan Hatch), 1966, lead vocal Stu Nitekman; a really bare-bones home demo, recorded in 1966, by The New Outlook (Paul Levinson, Stu Nitekman, and Ira Margolis), featuring an "organ" that I bought at Woolworth's Department Store for $19.95.
22. 22 January 2018: Water Proof, from my 2010 album Spun Dreams, words and music by Paul Levinson 1966, lead vocal Paul Levinson; another home demo, recorded in 1966, by The New Outlook (Paul Levinson, Stu Nitekman, and Ira Margolis), featuring that same cheap "organ" that I bought at Woolworth's Department Store for $19.95, and clearly influenced by the psychedelic flavor of the Beatles Revolver.
23. 23 January 2018: Precious and Golden, from my 2010 album Spun Dreams, words and music by Paul Levinson and Stu Nitekman (aka Jonathan Hatch), 1966, lead vocal Stu Nitekman; another home demo, recorded in 1966, by The New Outlook (Paul Levinson, Stu Nitekman, and Ira Margolis), done up in the "classic" New Outlook way: Stu lead, Paul falsetto harmony, Ira baritone; Stu guitar, Paul cheapo organ, Ira tambourine.
24. 24 January 2018: Keep Off the Grass, triple entendre time, from my 2010 album Spun Dreams, words and music by Paul Levinson and Stu Nitekman (aka Jonathan Hatch), 1966, lead vocal Stu Nitekman; home demo, recorded in 1966, by The New Outlook (Paul Levinson, Stu Nitekman, and Ira Margolis), done up in the "classic" New Outlook way: Stu lead, Paul falsetto harmony, Ira baritone; Stu guitar, Paul cheapo organ, Ira tambourine.
25. 25 January 2018: The Flavor of Spring, from my 2010 album Spun Dreams, words and music by Paul Levinson, 1966, lead vocal Stu Nitekman; home demo, recorded in 1966, by The New Outlook (Paul Levinson, Stu Nitekman, and Ira Margolis), done up in the "classic" New Outlook way: Stu lead, Paul falsetto harmony, Ira baritone; Stu guitar, Paul cheapo organ, Ira tambourine. (This one's in the Simon & Garfunkel "Feelin' Groovy" mood.)
26. 26 January 2018: Don't Blame It On Love, from my 2010 album Spun Dreams, words and music by Paul Levinson and Stu Nitekman (aka Jonathan Hatch), 1966, lead vocal Stu Nitekman; home demo, recorded in 1966, by The New Outlook (Paul Levinson, Stu Nitekman, and Ira Margolis), done up in the "classic" New Outlook way: Stu lead, Paul falsetto harmony, Ira baritone; Stu guitar, Paul cheapo organ, Ira tambourine.
27. 27 January 2018: If Leaves Fall Tomorrow, from my 2010 album Spun Dreams, words and music by Paul Levinson and Stu Nitekman (aka Jonathan Hatch), 1967, lead vocal Stu Nitekman; this is a studio demo, recorded in 1967, by The New Outlook (Paul Levinson, Stu Nitekman, and Ira Margolis), produced by Ellie Greenwich and Mike Rashkow, just as they heard us singing this in Central Park, before they signed us and changed our name to The Other Voices. (About a year later, Stu and I also started producing a recording of this song by Monday's Children. We worked out a pretty good arrangement - vocals and instruments - but only got as far as laying down a basic track with Gideon Ferebee, the lead vocalist. See #66 for link to video of that recording.) My wife, Tina Vozick, was friends with Monday's Children, and that's how we met!
And that concludes the songs from Spun Dreams. Next up, starting tomorrow, will be a daily listing of singles, unreleased masters, and studio and home demos, mostly from the 1960s but a few from the 21st century, written and/or recorded by me.
And that's it for Sundial Symphony, as of now. Next up are mostly demos of songs written and recorded by me, mostly from 1960s, with a few single releases neither written or recorded but produced by me in the late 1960s.
39. 8 February 2018: Love Colored Glasses, words by Paul Levinson, music by Mikie Harris, studio demo by Mikie Harris (lead and harmony, with Paul Levinson, harmony), 1968 (also recorded by June Valli, 1969, produced by Jim Krondes and released as a single on Murbo Records, see #88 below for link to video of this June Valli recording).
42. 11 February 2018: Waking Up To Love, words and music by Paul Levinson, 1968, studio demo by unknown lead singer, Paul Levinson harmony, 1968.
54. 23 February 2018: Once Upon a Summer, words by Paul Levinson, music by Stu Nitekman, 1967 studio demo with less than 2/3rds of The New Outlook (Stu singing lead, I have a bar of harmony in the middle and a few at the end, Ira was off wandering somewhere on Orchard Beach in the Bronx), produced by Eddie Jason, who wanted to sell the song to Spanky and Our Gang.
58. 27 February 2018: Tau Ceti, words by Paul Levinson, music by John Anealio, 2010, home demo by John Anealio - he's singing lead and strumming guitar, I'm putting in a little muddy cosmic-noise background harmony. (One of three science fiction flavored lyrics I wrote, see #s 28 and 57 above for the other two.) More lyrics of science fiction, and science fiction stories about music, in my anthology, Peter Brown Called: Tales of SciFi & Music.
63. 4 March 2018: Mr. Kringle, words by Paul Levinson, music by Mikie Harris, 1968, studio demo with unknown lead singer and Mikie Harris doing harmony.
68. 9 March 2018: Down by the Magical Sea, words and music by Mark Goodman, 1965, studio demo The New Outlook (Stu Nitekman lead, Paul Levinson falsetto harmony, Ira Margolis baritone harmony) (see ##67 above for link to video of "The Outcast," also written by Goodman, and also recorded that day).
70. 11 March 2018: Time On My Hands, words and music by Stu Nitekman (not the Youmans, Adamson and Gordon classic), 1967, home demo The New Outlook (Stu Nitekman lead, Paul Levinson falsetto harmony, Ira Margolis baritone harmony and tambourine)
71. 12 March 2018: Cloudy Sunday, studio demo Paul Levinson, 1968, words by Paul Levinson, music by Linda Kaplan. See #53 above for alternate female version by Linda Kaplan, same guitar and piano track.
72. 14 March 2018: A Piece of the Rainbow, words by Paul Levinson, music by Linda Kaplan, 1968, studio demo, 1968, Linda Kaplan lead vocal and harmony.
74. 15 March 2018: Break It To Me Gently, Trousers, 1971 - pretty much the same studio group as for "Merri Goes Round" (see #61 above for link to video), released as the B-side for Merri on Jimmy "Wiz" Wisner's Wizdom Records. Words and music by Paul Levinson and Ed Fox, who also produced this recording with Bruce Scott lead, Levinson falsetto and assorted harmonies, and Peter Rosenthal on "wah-wah" guitar and kazoo in the bridge.
77. 18 March 2018: Follow the Leader, words and music by Paul Levinson, studio demo from scratchy acetate, words & music by Paul Levinson, 1971, Levinson lead vocal, harmonies, keyboards; Peter Rosenthal guitars.
81. 22 March 2018: Looking for Sunsets (In the Early Morning), science fiction writer, physicist, and singer Catherine Asaro - just her voice with piano accompaniment - sings the song (words and music by Paul Levinson and Ed Fox), just her and piano, in 2012.
85. 26 March 2018: I'm Seeing You In A Different Light, Paul Levinson, words and music by Paul Levinson and Ed Fox, 1969, early, wilder, studio demo of the Twice Upon a Rhyme 1972 track, with Paul Levinson doing all vocals and pounding piano, and Peter Rosenthal guitars (see #4 above for link to video of album track).
89. 14 August 2018: I joined The Blue Dahlia - aka Dahlia Dumont - for a rendition of my Today Is Just Like You (words & music by Paul Levinson, 1969) at her CD-release party at Barbès in Park Slope, Brooklyn for her album, La Tradition Américaine, on 11 August 2018. (See #s 1, 35, and 75 above for other recordings of this song.)
90. 21 September 2021: Q.Rock639 (aka Laron Cue) puts up a cool, beautiful, heartwarming Remix of Cloudy Sunday for Three Beats Later